Insurance outlook: in an era of increasing competition technology will make the difference
Mar 14, 2016 23:31 pm UTC| Insights & Views Business
Its reporting season, and over the past few weeks some of Australias biggest companies have been releasing information on how theyre travelling. These reports reflect themes of how things are going in key sectors of the...
Mar 14, 2016 13:27 pm UTC| Insights & Views
UK current account deficit is larger than it has been any time since 1985, a record low of -28833 GBP Million in the fourth quarter of 2014. Tail risk of Brexit caused spike in demand for GPB downside (puts) over...
Fed likely to be the key driver for G10 FX and US rates this week
Mar 14, 2016 12:24 pm UTC| Insights & Views Central Banks
On Wednesday, March 16, The Federal Open Market Committee releases its policy statement along with updated quarterly forecasts for the U.S. economy, which will be followed by Fed Chair Janet Yellens press conference at...
Explainer: Screenrights and the thorny question of writers' royalties
Mar 14, 2016 04:13 am UTC| Insights & Views Business
In the last decade of the 20th century, something amazing happened: copyright again became a serious issue for a generation of creative workers. Copyright was first established by British law in 1710. The Statute of...
Mar 14, 2016 02:17 am UTC| Insights & Views Business
Its not every day that I feel the need to fight with Martin Wolf. The Financial Times commentator is an eminently respectable analyst and most of the time makes good sense. However, last week he sort of lost the...
Tipping point: how we predict when Antarctica's melting ice sheets will flood the seas
Mar 13, 2016 23:39 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Antarctica is already feeling the heat of climate change, with rapid melting and retreat of glaciers over recent decades. Ice mass loss from Antarctica and Greenland contributes about 20% to the current rate of global...
Banking outlook: threats from technology, burst of housing bubble, end of mining boom
Mar 13, 2016 21:12 pm UTC| Insights & Views Business
Its reporting season, and over the past few weeks some of Australias biggest companies have been releasing information on how theyre travelling. These reports reflect key themes of how things are going in key sectors of...
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