Jan 15, 2016 11:22 am UTC| Insights & Views
On a more positive note, gradually tightening supplies of many commodities - linked to production curtailments and a sharp slowdown in capacity expansion - in the face of rising demand should start to boost prices across a...
FxWirePro: Chinese slowdown, oil turmoil may impact FED hike deferred expectations in H2 2016
Jan 15, 2016 10:43 am UTC| Insights & Views
The beginning weeks of 2016 dealings began against the backdrop of a fresh spells of Chinese equity/FX market tension. Notably, China has been second largest trade partner and 1st to evidence highest US trade...
Jan 15, 2016 09:58 am UTC| Insights & Views
On monthly plotting XAUUSD has dropped back below sloping trend line of descending triangle to the current levels of 1083.14.Weekly price tested 21DMA as resistance and rejected at 1108.42. that is where divergence is...
Al Jazeera to close in America: the future will not be broadcast
Jan 15, 2016 09:43 am UTC| Insights & Views
Yesterday came the surprising announcement that Al Jazeera America (AJAM), the not even three-year-old US news franchise of the Arab media giant, was shutting down. Come April this year, up to 800 journalists may be...
Defying the 'one-hour rule' for city travel, traffic modelling drives policy madness
Jan 15, 2016 02:23 am UTC| Insights & Views
Most mathematical modelling used to guide our economy is simplified and only modified when it becomes so out of touch that it is dangerous. When the Atlantic cod fishery collapsed the model being used to set fishing quotas...
To cut emissions faster, U.S. should ditch tax credit-based subsidies for renewable energy
Jan 14, 2016 14:12 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Congress last month extended valuable tax credits to producers of electricity from wind turbines and solar photovoltaic panels, a move that came as a relief to an industry that has experienced rapid growth in recent...
Jakarta attacks: is Islamic State's presence in southeast Asia overstated?
Jan 14, 2016 14:03 pm UTC| Insights & Views
A series of deadly suicide bombings and shootings in Jakarta have killed at least seven people, and been claimed by Islamic State (IS). At first glance, this seems to confirm that long-held worries of a full-blown IS...
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