Is nicotine really as safe as e-cigarette supporters make out?
Jun 14, 2016 07:09 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
A core platform of the massive promotion of e-cigarettes has been the argument that because these products involve no combustion but only vapourisation, they must be substantially less dangerous than smoked tobacco. Few ...
Computing gives us tools to preserve disappearing languages
Jun 14, 2016 06:58 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
In 100 years, many of the worlds 7,000 languages could be extinct. Hundreds of years of oral storytelling will disappear in the space of a couple of generations. The knowledge and beauty locked up in these languages is...
Jun 13, 2016 12:42 pm UTC| Insights & Views
On Friday the Central Bank of Russia has lowered its benchmark one-week repo rate by 50bps taking the main refinancing rate to 10.5%, as widely anticipated, justifying inflation expectations continued to decrease amid an...
Markets largely price out the Fed; FOMC likely to be a non-event
Jun 13, 2016 11:49 am UTC| Insights & Views
On Tuesday 14th June, the U.S. Federal Open Market Committee begins a two-day meeting. FOMC is expected to maintain the Fed funds target range at 0.25-0.50% when the meeting is concluded on Wednesday. Markets have pushed...
Venice Biennale: an exhausting, beautiful attempt to relinquish architecture
Jun 13, 2016 08:47 am UTC| Insights & Views Business
From now through November 27, architects and enthusiasts from around the globe will descend upon Venice, Italy, for the 15th International Architecture Exhibition organised by La Biennale di Venezia. The Venice...
Insider trading is greedy, not glamorous, and it hurts us all
Jun 13, 2016 08:29 am UTC| Insights & Views Business Law
Much of the focus on the insider trading case of Oliver Curtis has been on the titillating details of the mans social life, his wife and past relationship with his partner in crime John Hartman. However all this misses the...
What could drive central banks in US and Japan in Q3’2016 that in turn drives USD/JPY
Jun 13, 2016 08:11 am UTC| Central Banks Insights & Views
The Bank of Japan is expected to stand pat this Thursday. Economic data actually suggest the need for further policy easing. GDP growth rose 1.9% (QoQ SAAR) in 1Q16 after falling -1.8% in 4Q15, meaning no growth over the...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects