FxWirePro: Euro looks sturdier against antipodeans – Buy EUR/AUD cash and EUR/NZD AED calls

Apr 03, 2018 08:50 am UTC| Research & Analysis Central Banks Insights & Views

RBA maintains status quo to leave its cash rates unchanged at 1.50%, our outlook on the Aussie central bank is to remain on hold throughout 2018, and this is anchoring short-maturity interest rates and should keep 3y swap...

Will Amazon be your next bank and health insurance?

Apr 03, 2018 07:27 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology

One of Mr. Rockefellers most impressive characteristics is patience. This 1902 assertion by pioneering journalist Ida Tarbell described John D. Rockefeller, one of the wealthiest men in the world in the early 20th...

Why the business model of social media giants like Facebook is incompatible with human rights

Apr 03, 2018 07:24 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology Law

Facebook has had a bad few weeks. The social media giant had to apologise for failing to protect the personal data of millions of users from being accessed by data mining company Cambridge Analytica. Outrage is brewing...

What Xi Jinping's grab for power means for Canada

Apr 03, 2018 06:53 am UTC| Insights & Views

Since the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank tweeted last week that Canada is now officially a full member, it hasnt exactly made headlines. Yet this is ostensibly a prelude for trade talks with China in an...

Defamation in the digital age has morphed into litigation between private individuals

Apr 03, 2018 06:47 am UTC| Insights & Views Life

New South Wales District Court judge Judith Gibson recently identified a worrying social trend she sees in running the courts defamation list ordinary people suing over social media posts. In turn, NSW Attorney-General...

Digital Currency Revolution

Rise of cryptocurrencies could curb American power

Apr 02, 2018 16:52 pm UTC| Insights & Views Digital Currency Politics

There has been a lot of talk in foreign policy circles of the coming post-American world in which the international system will transition from a unipolar to a multipolar system. But, as we currently stand, the US remains...

Why are more people doing gig work? They like it

Apr 02, 2018 16:49 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy

Thanks to companies like Lyft, TaskRabbit and Instacart, its never been easier for Americans who can afford it to zip from place to place, get groceries delivered or let someone else walk their dog. Likewise, the number of...