FxWirePro: Sterling shrugs-off upbeat UK manufacturing prints, OTC signals Brexit intensity as puts on command owing to highest risk reversals

Jun 08, 2016 13:46 pm UTC| Insights & Views

TheUK has produced upbeat manufacturing production despite unfavourable hot news to their business, prints actual numbers at 2.3% versus forecasts at 0.0% and previous flashes at 0.1%. While industrial output in the...

Briferendum Series

Why Brexit supporters should take a EU-turn – just like I did

Jun 08, 2016 11:41 am UTC| Insights & Views

In 1997, a small number of academic economists in my country, the Netherlands, came out against the euro and were vilified by the authorities. I was one of them. When my native country organised a (non-binding)...

US Election Series

Clinton clinches Democratic nomination after big wins in New Jersey and California

Jun 08, 2016 11:38 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics

Hillary Clinton today clinched the Democratic Presidential nomination, following big wins in the two highest population states voting. She won New Jersey (126 pledged delegates) 63-37 and California (475) 56-43. She also...

Taking the city’s pulse: we need to link urban vitality back to the planet

Jun 08, 2016 05:59 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature

Back in the 1960s, the influential urban planner and journalist Jane Jacobs put American cities under the microscope. Jacobs was aiming to explain, and suggest ways of remedying, the hollowing out, or doughnut effect,...

How to stop vampire bats wreaking havoc (no stakes or garlic required)

Jun 08, 2016 05:56 am UTC| Insights & Views Health Nature

During the darkest hours of the night, they fly and hunt for prey. They live in caves and ruined buildings and have to drink blood every night to survive. They can bite with their fangs without you even noticing. No wonder...

Why the Deep Space Atomic Clock is key for future space exploration

Jun 08, 2016 05:49 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology

We all intuitively understand the basics of time. Every day we count its passage and use it to schedule our lives. We also use time to navigate our way to the destinations that matter to us. In school we learned that...

Are pop stars destined to die young?

Jun 08, 2016 05:17 am UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment

Princes autopsy has determined that the artist died of an accidental overdose of the synthetic opioid fentanyl. The news comes on the heels of the death of former Metallica drummer Nick Menza, who collapsed on stage and...