New Zealand bonds rise on election uncertainties, 10-year yields down 130bps

Sep 22, 2017 04:03 am UTC| Commentary Economy

The New Zealand bonds rose during early Asian session Friday as investors poured into safe-haven instruments, following hovering uncertainties ahead of the September 23 general election. The yield on the benchmark...

How an economic theory helped mire the United States in Vietnam

Sep 22, 2017 04:01 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy

Questions of how the U.S. got mired in the Vietnam War and whether it was ultimately winnable have fascinated historians for half a century most recently in Ken Burns new 18-hour documentary. A little-remembered aspect...

Whose interests? Why defining the 'public interest' is such a challenge

Sep 22, 2017 03:38 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy Politics

The public interest is a political concept thats regularly trotted out along with other democratic principles such as transparency and accountability. And, like transparency and accountability, its difficult to pin down...

Climate Change Series

Developing countries can prosper without increasing emissions

Sep 22, 2017 03:35 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy

One of the ironies of fighting climate change is that developed countries which have benefited from decades or centuries of industrialisation are now asking developing countries to abandon highly polluting...

Vital Signs Series

Vital Signs: don't count your economic chickens before they hatch

Sep 22, 2017 03:33 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy

Vital Signs is a weekly economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden (@profholden). Vital Signs aims to contextualise weekly economic events and cut through the noise of the data affecting...

Lessons from KPMG: be on guard, South Africans are on your case

Sep 22, 2017 03:26 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy

Moses came down from the mount with tablets inscribed with 10 commandments. Most of us know (most of) them, and most of us fail to live by (most of) them. But if Moses had turned them over and looked in the fine print on...

Australian bonds jump tracking firm U.S. Treasuries amid silent trading session

Sep 22, 2017 02:33 am UTC| Commentary Economy

The Australian bonds jumped, tracking strength in the U.S. Treasuries during early Asian session Friday despite a set of inspiring economic data released yesterday amid a silent trading session that witnessed data of...