Feb 29, 2016 09:32 am UTC| Insights & Views
When equities tanked globally in January and world stock markets had their worst start to a new year, several risks emerged as guilty behind the move. As doldrums continued, investors withdrew billions of dollars from...
Feb 29, 2016 08:49 am UTC| Insights & Views
Please be noted on delta risk reversals indication as to how the OTC markets are positioned for hedging downside risks, and sentiments are getting higher negative values gradually in a long run as well (flashing at -2.6...
Feb 29, 2016 05:59 am UTC| Insights & Views
Do people have to put up with poor quality jobs because thats the only way to get enough jobs? Are the quality and quantity of jobs at odds with each other? There have been variations on this idea for a while. They say...
Powerful supermarkets push the cost of food waste onto suppliers, charities
Feb 29, 2016 05:59 am UTC| Insights & Views
At a time when one billion people globally experience hunger, as much as 50% of all food produced - up to two billion metric tonnes - is thrown away every year. In Australia alone, as much as 44 million tonnes of food is...
Automation won't destroy jobs, but it will change them
Feb 29, 2016 04:22 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
The last few years have seen numerous studies pointing to a bleak future with technology-induced unemployment on the rise. For example, a pivotal 2013 study by researchers at the University of Oxford found that of 702...
Is it going to be an another real estate bubble in China after crisis of 2007 in the U.S.?
Feb 26, 2016 13:39 pm UTC| Insights & Views Real Estate
During 2007-09, the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury called the bursting housing bubble the most significant risk to our economy. The increasedforeclosure rates in 2006-2007 among U.S. homeowners led to acrisis in August...
Feb 26, 2016 11:36 am UTC| Insights & Views
The Indian rupee rout has been nonstop and one of the two main underperforming currencies in Asian currencies so far this year.It is the 2nd weakest and down 3.7% vs USD year-to-date, behind KRWs -5.3%.Volatility in rupee...
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