FxWirePro: EUR/GBP ATM puts seem costlier as disparity exists between IVs and premiums – option arbitrage an alternative

Dec 10, 2015 14:15 pm UTC| Insights & Views

As expected the MPC members again voted 8-1 for keeping the rates unchanged and unanimously to maintain the stock of purchased assets at the 9 December MPC meeting.This was the fifth time in row that the MPC member Ian...

Douglas Tompkins: can billionaires really save nature with cold, hard cash?

Dec 10, 2015 11:53 am UTC| Insights & Views Business Nature

Douglas Tompkins, the pioneering entrepreneur who created the outdoor company The North Face and fashion chain Esprit, and who spent his riches creating the worlds largest network of privately owned nature reserves, died...

How a simple observation from the 1800s about patterns in big data sets can fight fraud

Dec 10, 2015 11:29 am UTC| Insights & Views Science

Benfords law was first mentioned by the American scientist Simon Newcomb in the 1880s, when he noticed that in books of tables of logarithms, the pages of numbers whose leading digit was 1 were more worn than the pages of...

Europe and the Great Recession: is it a crisis wasted?

Dec 10, 2015 11:05 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics Economy

It is a common refrain of political strategists that you should not let a good crisis go to waste. Seven years on from the beginnings of the global financial crisis, we can make an assessment of whether that maxim was...

The earth has moved: big business's radical climate shift is now unstoppable

Dec 10, 2015 10:11 am UTC| Insights & Views Business

The most surprising revelation at here at the Paris climate conference has been the astonishing shift in the world of investors over the past 12 months. There is now unprecedented momentum towards participating in the...

Migrant Crisis Series

Refugees' suffering can't be eased in their current conditions

Dec 10, 2015 09:46 am UTC| Insights & Views

Germany has seen a massive influx of migrants since opening its borders to refugees from war-torn countries in Africa and the Middle East. This year alone it is estimated more than 300,000 people have entered the...

Q&A: why credit rating agencies matter for developing countries

Dec 10, 2015 06:14 am UTC| Insights & Views

Credit rating agencies have played a crucial role in international debt markets for more than 150 years. But they have often attracted controversy. Andile Makholwa, The Conversation Africas economics and business editor,...