FX Hedging Strategy Series

FxWirePro: CNH vols seems rich but risk reversal hedges cheap – USD/CNH seagull for hedging

Sep 21, 2016 10:23 am UTC| Central Banks Insights & Views

USDCNH continues to be a favored strategic vol short that we are willing to hold through event risks this month. The rationale for the trade has not changed since initiation faith in the PBoC to engineer orderly, low...

Global Geopolitics Series

Global Geopolitics Series

Botswana at 50: the end of an African success story?

Sep 21, 2016 07:59 am UTC| Insights & Views

It is 50 years since Botswana attained independence from British rule. Over the decades, the small landlocked country has been regarded as a role model for success in Africa. It has achieved political stability, democratic...

US Election Series

Harvard study: Policy issues nearly absent in presidential campaign coverage

Sep 21, 2016 07:43 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics

Years ago, when I first started teaching and was at Syracuse University, one of my students ran for student body president on the tongue-in-cheek platform Issues are Tissues, without a T. He was dismissing out of hand...

Global Geopolitics Series

To curb North Korea's nuclear program, follow the money

Sep 21, 2016 06:29 am UTC| Insights & Views

North Koreas fifth nuclear test on September 9 sparked a new round of questions about how to contain this rapidly growing threat. Like clockwork, the United States and its northeast Asian allies are already preparing...

How the American online sex trade continues to thrive

Sep 21, 2016 06:27 am UTC| Insights & Views Law Life

America has always had an underground sex trade, and for decades most pimps followed the same general script: theyd recruit sex workers on the street, in bars and in strip clubs. But over the past 20 years, the internet...

Is 30% of Northern Territory farmland and 22% of Tasmanian farmland foreign-owned?

Sep 21, 2016 06:19 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy

There is no story of modesty here as the government is trying to frame it; 30% of the Northern Territorys farmland is now foreign-owned, 22% of Tassie; thats extraordinary. Katters Australian Party federal MP Bob Katter,...

Migrant Crisis Series

How the Asia-Pacific can lead the way on migrants and refugees

Sep 21, 2016 05:45 am UTC| Insights & Views Life

September has seen a surge of international summits. First came the G20 in Hangzhou, then ASEAN and the East Asia Summit in Vientiane, plus the Pacific Islands Forum in Pohnpei. And, on consecutive days this week, the...