Bothered by a brothel? How sex work can improve your neighbourhood
Jun 16, 2016 11:12 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
The sex industry, specifically sex work and prostitution, has long been perceived and regulated as a dirty and disorderly feature of residential communities. The stereotypical, and unfair, view of sex workers is that they...
BoJ holds fire amid sluggish global growth and anaemic inflation, sends yen soaring
Jun 16, 2016 10:56 am UTC| Insights & Views Central Banks Commentary
The Bank of Japan kept policy unchanged at its meeting earlier on Thursday. The central bank held its key interest rate at minus 0.1 percent and kept the annual target for expanding the monetary base at 80 trillion yen...
FxWirePro: Is it liquidity or funding cost, what is driving CNH lower rates?
Jun 16, 2016 08:14 am UTC| Insights & Views
The front end CNH rates remain low amid ample liquidity. The switch to the averaging method in required reserve calculation for onshore RMB deposits placed by offshore banks may still be having an impact, in discouraging...
Jun 16, 2016 08:07 am UTC| Insights & Views
As the outcome of the UK 23rd June referendum remains uncertain but the fears of Brexit sword lingering around GBP crosses so there is value in conditional trades expressing Bremain or Brexit scenarios. If the UK...
Jun 16, 2016 07:23 am UTC| Insights & Views
In conjunction with the Feds unchanged policy decision, more dovish signals have been received from the FOMC members on the US policy outlook. While the US industrial production MoM has disappointed the streets by...
Meg Ryan's face and the historical battleground of ageing
Jun 16, 2016 06:45 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
The day after the horrific Orlando massacre, the highest-trending topic on Facebook was the appearance of Meg Ryans face at the Tony Awards. Like Renee Zellweger before her, the perception that Ryan has become almost...
In the wake of tragedy, Trump takes rhetoric of fear to a whole new level
Jun 16, 2016 05:46 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Donald Trumps remarks in the aftermath of the Orlando shooting massacre especially the reiteration of his call to temporarily ban Muslim immigration to the United States angered leaders across Americas political...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects