Big brands ripping off street art is not cool: why illegal graffiti should be protected by copyright

Mar 18, 2018 05:18 am UTC| Insights & Views Business Law

When street artist Jason Revok Williams sprayed his trademark chevrons on a handball court in Brooklyn, he probably didnt imagine he would end up taking a high-street fashion giant to court for breach of copyright. But...

Low-carbon computing is needed to avoid a technological collapse

Mar 18, 2018 05:15 am UTC| Insights & Views Science

Human society has come to rely on superior gadgets being produced every year. Each year, new phones or laptops are faster, sleeker and have even more capabilities. However, electronics are rarely recycled, and the carbon...

FxWirePro: Spotlight on EMFX space and trade baskets ahead of FOMC

Mar 16, 2018 12:10 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Central Banks Insights & Views

The short-term repricing of Fed hikes is typically not supportive of EM FX returns, which also motivates our selective hedges (e.g. TRY and MXN). The recent research in the past emphasized the distinction between increases...

FxWirePro: Bid USD/CAD 1w/1m OTC tools and hedge swing risks via call ratio back spreads

Mar 16, 2018 11:09 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views

Bullish USDCAD scenarios above 1.31 driven by: 1) NAFTA renegotiations break down and breakup fears return. 2) US growth expectations upgraded on policy driving broadly luring FOMCs rising hikes which in turn lead to...

FxWirePro: USD/CAD and CAD/JPY to rescue USD/JPY’s softness

Mar 16, 2018 10:02 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views

For the Bank of Canada (BoC) the intensifying trade war with the US is an increasing factor of uncertainty for its economic outlook as it made clear at its meeting yesterday. With this exception, the image of the economy...

FxWirePro: Uphold commodity derivatives trades for hedging crude price risks

Mar 16, 2018 08:32 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views

Brent traded in a $2/bbl range this week. After losing 2.9% in the first four days of the current week, it recovered most of those losses on Friday 09 March. Weekly decline in US oil rig count was also supportive of oil...

FxWirePro: Loonie’s momentary vulnerability lingers on US trade tariffs, NAFTA and dot-pot shift of commodity FX – Uphold USD/CAD long hedges

Mar 16, 2018 08:12 am UTC| Research & Analysis Central Banks Insights & Views

Trade conflict has been a great tormentor this week as the US President Trumps formal executive order on steel and aluminum tariffs moved hostilities from the realm of rhetoric into action, and further intensification...