Reforming vocational education: it's time to end the exploitation of vulnerable people
Dec 15, 2015 23:48 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
Australias vocational education sector is a mess. Tightening regulation and tweaking some of the settings will contain the damage, but these measures alone will not address deeper problems in the sector. Real,...
Dec 15, 2015 13:37 pm UTC| Insights & Views
No doubt about the baseline of golds descending triangle pattern holding strong support but we believe, often and often we see bears trimming golds recent gains.Today even if it makes an attempt of jump above baseline...
FxWirePro: Gamma advantage on EUR/USD volatility swaps as realized volatility mightier than IVs
Dec 15, 2015 12:55 pm UTC| Insights & Views
A set of factors are influencing decision taking, liquidity and therefore market dynamics around the turn of the year. Cyclical hedges with yearly regularity may be reset at this time. Shareholders, investment managers...
Dec 15, 2015 12:07 pm UTC| Insights & Views
The Riksbank seems to have considered the last weeks ECBs timidity and strong domestic demand has allowed Swedens central bank to keep rates unchanged today.The Riksbank kept its repo rate unchanged at -0.35 percent and...
With the Fed rate hike well flagged, "Tone of Conference" will be the key to drive markets
Dec 15, 2015 11:22 am UTC| Insights & Views Central Banks
Markets are nervous heading into the FOMC decision due tomorrow. With the hike in the fed funds rate well flagged, focus is likely to shift from the initial hike to the subsequent path as to be detailed in the statement to...
Five ways to fix the UK's productivity puzzle from the inside out
Dec 15, 2015 09:57 am UTC| Insights & Views Business
We all know by now that Britain has a productivity problem. The average British worker simply doesnt make as much stuff as those from other major countries and for all the agreement that something must be done, there is...
Why are our 15 year olds falling behind in reading and writing?
Dec 15, 2015 07:36 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
Our 15 year olds are continuing to fall behind in literacy, according to latest figures from the national testing scheme NAPLAN. So far, the solutions devised by our politicians have been useless. First the Labor...
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