FxWirePro: A glimpse on hedging scenario as 3M EUR/GBP IVs spiking higher ahead of Briferendum
Mar 24, 2016 14:01 pm UTC| Insights & Views
With the adjustment to the IVs, risk reversals and next significant event that can have the major impact on EURGBP would be UK referendum (that is scheduled 2 months from now), 3M IVs of EURGBP are still conducive for call...
Briferendum series: Big shifts in options market, dwarfs Pound’s drop at spot
Mar 24, 2016 12:10 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Pound just snapped back from critical low against Dollar today around 1.406 area but price actions clearly suggests vulnerabilities remain. Over the past five days, Pound has dropped more than 400 pips against...
Oil in global economy series: Vulnerabilities moving down stream in U.S.
Mar 24, 2016 11:37 am UTC| Insights & Views
While lower oil price battered producers, drillers all around globe and US, more downstream companies such as refiners enjoyed a boom. Refiners saw their margins improve, with higher demand for end products and lower input...
Mar 24, 2016 11:14 am UTC| Insights & Views
The GDP in Russia contracted 0.57% in the Q3 2015 over the previous quarter. The Russian economy shrank 2.5% YoY in January of 2016, following a 3.5% drop in the previous month. Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said...
Mass extinctions and climate change: why the speed of rising greenhouse gases matters
Mar 24, 2016 00:21 am UTC| Insights & Views
We now know that greenhouse gases are rising faster than at any time since the demise of dinosaurs, and possibly even earlier. According to research published in Nature Geoscience this week, carbon dioxide (CO₂) is being...
Rare Earths: driven by magnetic applications and diversity in supply
Mar 24, 2016 00:14 am UTC| Insights & Views
Rare earths are vital for the tech in modern economies, but its the magnetic group of these elements that is the primary driver for the market at present and likely in the future. Magnetic rare earths are used in the...
What is Turnbull’s take on foreign policy?
Mar 24, 2016 00:09 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
For anyone who has been following Malcolm Turnbulls progress as prime minister, his much-anticipated speech to the Lowy Institute contained few real surprises, other that the fact that it was inevitably preceded by an...
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