Super Bowl advertisers spend $5 million for 30 seconds: is there a better use for that cash?
Feb 07, 2016 15:04 pm UTC| Insights & Views Sports
The Super Bowl is not just the biggest and most-watched event of the year in the United States, its also one of the most important for advertisers, who shell out an estimated US$5 million for every half-minute of air...
Super Bowl 50's data deluge: How much is too much?
Feb 07, 2016 15:01 pm UTC| Insights & Views Sports
Do you remember the Announcerless Game? On December 20, 1980, an otherwise insignificant game between the New York Jets and Miami Dolphins, teams trudging toward the end of dreary seasons, became famous or infamous ...
First BoE rate hike expectations pushed to Q1 2017
Feb 05, 2016 11:56 am UTC| Insights & Views
BoE MPC voted unanimously (9-0 vote) to hold rates steady at a record low level of 0.5 per cent at Thursdays meeting, in line with broad market expectation. The meeting echoed Carneys dovish message, Ian McCafferty the...
What is cooking in China, has the meltdown pressure still been lingering?
Feb 05, 2016 08:47 am UTC| Insights & Views
China remains to be the centre of global concerns as investors dubious the countrys core growth momentum, the pace of capital outflows and reform plans etc.The recent turmoil in equity and FX markets, coupled with...
Feb 05, 2016 08:16 am UTC| Insights & Views
Brexit risks are crystallizing around Jun/Sept: steep GBP skews provide attractive put spread hedges.The potential Brexit risk premium have begun to be priced into options, OTC markets are evident to display this scenario,...
Feb 05, 2016 06:34 am UTC| Insights & Views
After the steep slumps, if you are expecting reversal upswings then you are likely to get bull trapped.Refer our previous...
Demystifying Hedge Fund Strategies
Feb 05, 2016 02:46 am UTC| Insights & Views
The alternative investment world is infamous for applying labels to itself, some of which are self-explanatory but many of which murky or just misleading.This series will demystify the jargon and explain the...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects