FxWirePro: Buzzing Vega longs in AUD/USD Put Ratio Back Spreads as optimized hedging vehicles capitalizing subdued Aussie trade balance

Aug 03, 2017 10:03 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views

Australias trade surplus narrowed 58 pct to AUD 0.86 billion in Jun2017 from a downwardly revised AUD 2.02 billion in May. The trade prints came in which has missed the market consensus of AUD 1.78 billion, as exports fell...

FxWirePro: Are EUR/USD skews justifiable, how should central banks function? The fair assessment of realized skews

Aug 03, 2017 07:58 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views Central Banks

Weve stated in our recent posts about euro positive skewness. But the options skew reflects the relative appetite for calls and puts, which only partly reflects pure directional expectations. The skew is primarily about...

FxWirePro: Aussie bears slide below 7-DMA but major trend in consolidation phase breaks above range resistance – Double no touch binaries for leverage

Aug 03, 2017 07:48 am UTC| Technicals Insights & Views

The bulls of AUDUSD seem to have been exhausted momentarily at the peaks of 0.8065 levels. On the flip side, the major trend has been drifting in range bounded trend, but for now, bulls have managed to break the long...

FxWirePro: How do you position the shift in EUR/USD skews towards calls?

Aug 03, 2017 06:28 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views

EURUSD skews seem to have turned towards calls, and thats only the beginning. The option skew reflects the relative appetite for calls and puts, which only partly reflects pure directional expectations. The skew is...

Drug related deaths are at their highest level in 25 years

Aug 02, 2017 17:37 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health

According to new data from the UKs Office for National Statistics (ONS), last year saw the highest number of drug-related deaths since records began in 1993. Over half of these deaths involved an opiate such as heroin....

Venezuela: what Chávez's mentor told me about the country's Castro-inspired road to ruin

Aug 02, 2017 17:27 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy

Even as citizens took to the streets in their hundreds of thousands to protest and boycott it, Venezuelas president, Nicolás Maduro, declared victory in an election that could allow him to rewrite the countrys...

Trying to keep nature the same is a fool's errand – we should embrace change

Aug 02, 2017 17:13 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature

When it comes to deciding which plants and animals to protect and which to remove, our approach might make even the most forthright nationalist blush if it were ever applied to people. The central question in the UK and...