ECB’s quantitative easing increases European trading volume
Aug 03, 2015 10:38 am UTC| Insights & Views
European Central Bank (ECB) started its securities purchase program on March 2015 with 60 billion purchase per month. This massive and unprecedented easing by ECB has resulted in investors pouring money to the regions...
Greek stock market opens after 5-week shutdown, recovers from 23% slump
Aug 03, 2015 10:23 am UTC| Insights & Views
Greek stock market has reopened today, after closing since June 29th. In the meantime the country come closest to tumbling out of Euro-zone, which has been saved by last minute deal between Greek Prime Minister Alexis...
Monetary Policy divergences start to widen across developed markets and EM
Aug 03, 2015 10:01 am UTC| Insights & Views
US/UK policy divergence relative to the rest of the developed world is becoming more and more evident. The US looks set to normalize policy rates as early as September and the Bank of England by Q1 2016, leading the DM...
Guide to today’s important data and events
Aug 03, 2015 09:32 am UTC| Insights & Views
Lot of economic dockets scheduled for today with medium to high risk associated. Data released so far - Australia - TD securities inflation rose by 1.6% in July, on yearly basis. HIA new home sales rose 0.5% in June...
Aug 03, 2015 09:07 am UTC| Insights & Views
EOD technical charts have shown a slight recovery from last weeks loses. An inverted hammer pattern is formed on Friday at 0.7027 levels and intraday sentiments are bullish bias but the healthy UK PMI is disturbing the...
FxWirePro: GBP/USD Condor Spreads for hedgers on lower IV
Aug 03, 2015 08:49 am UTC| Insights & Views
The only reason preferring for this strategy is that IV factor. Since the GBPUSDs implied volatility is perceived to be comparatively minimal among the G7 currency pool (near at the money GB/USD implied volatility is at...
FxWirePro: USD/JPY delta hedging of long straddles for long term foreign traders
Aug 03, 2015 08:22 am UTC| Insights & Views
This recommendation must be quite baffling for the one who referred our earlier write up on USD/JPY on speculation grounds. If on a short straddle combination where a call and put options are written with deltas of 0.50...
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