Why mortgage rates will rise with Brexit
May 16, 2016 12:58 pm UTC| Insights & Views Real Estate
How Brexit would affect house prices and homeowners is one of the big questions in the build up to the UKs EU referendum vote. George Osborne has said that mortgage rates will rise if theres an Out vote. Meanwhile, the...
#NeverTrump: could a third-party candidate save the Republicans from armageddon?
May 16, 2016 12:38 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Recent media buzz suggests that disaffected #NeverTrump Republicans are seriously seeking an alternative candidate to Donald Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee. With the chances of stopping Trump formally taking the...
Labor struggles with the sticky paper of penalty rates
May 16, 2016 12:31 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
Normally it is the Coalition that is on the defensive over industrial relations at election time, with Labor claiming workers rights are under threat from the conservatives. But currently Labor finds itself on the back...
May 16, 2016 10:58 am UTC| Insights & Views Commentary
This weeks minutes from the April FOMC meeting should provide us clear insight of how the committee is viewing the slate of risks to their outlook. As external risks subsided, domestic momentum has slowed. The case for...
PBoC to remain cautious in terms of credit expansion despite weaker than expected April data
May 16, 2016 10:23 am UTC| Insights & Views
Indicators released on Saturday showed Chinas investment, factory output and retail sales all grew more slowly than expected in April, raising fears that the data improvement in March was short-lived. Data weakness was...
May 13, 2016 12:37 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
Mixed bag of economic flashes in Euro area, Inflation back in negative territory, GDP misses forecasts Macro Outlook: Euro zone GDP growth outperforms the US and UK in Q1 but reduced from its previous prints and...
Would you vote for a Eurovision Brexit?
May 13, 2016 11:21 am UTC| Insights & Views
Leave had a 20 point lead over remain in a recent YouGov poll but this Brexit referendum concerned Britains membership of the Eurovision Song Contest, not Europe. Considering the proximity of the EU referendum on June 23,...
Gabon: post-coup dialogue has mapped out path to democracy – now military leaders must act
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects