FX Hedging Strategy Series

FxWirePro: Load up GBP/JPY longs in back spread on accelerated IV pace ahead of BoE - hedge downside risks using Vega ATM puts

Aug 03, 2016 07:12 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views Central Banks

1W and 2W ATM IVs of GBP crosses are acting crazily in OTC markets, GBPJPY flashing more than 19.80% and 17.20% respectively ahead of Bank of Englands monetary policy which is most likely to ease about 25bps. Please...

Currency War Series

Is the concept of 'helicopter money' set for a resurgence?

Aug 03, 2016 06:50 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy Central Banks

As a student I was taught (and this will date me) that macroeconomics (the study of the economy as a whole) was essentially governed by two alternative views Keynesianism and Monetarism. Keynesians believed that the...

Why executions in Indonesia must stop

Aug 03, 2016 06:45 am UTC| Insights & Views Law

Indonesia executed four prisoners on death row for drug offences early on Friday. Last weeks killings were the third round of executions under Joko Widodos government, and were carried out despite ongoing legal appeals and...

It's not 'corporate poaching' – it's a free market for brilliant people

Aug 03, 2016 06:37 am UTC| Insights & Views Business Economy

When Uber decided to develop its own self-driving car, it went big. The company came to Carnegie Mellon University, the epicenter for autonomous driving research for three decades, and hired away four professors and 36...

US Election Series

Radicals in the Democratic Party, from Upton Sinclair to Bernie Sanders

Aug 03, 2016 06:21 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics

As we watch Bernie Sanders supporters struggling to come to terms with the nomination of Hillary Clinton, it makes sense to ask why leftists are involved in the Democratic Party in the first place. It started in...

Climate Change Series

Can 'climate corridors' help species adapt to warming world?

Aug 03, 2016 06:18 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature

If you flip over a log in a forest in the southeastern U.S., you are likely to find a squirming salamander. A healthy forest floor, full of fallen branches and rotting leaves, provides these amphibians with the...

Sofosbuvir – what's the price of a hepatitis C cure?

Aug 03, 2016 06:16 am UTC| Insights & Views Health

Sofosbuvir is one of a number of new direct-acting antiviral drugs revolutionising the care of people living with hepatitis C. Combinations of two or three hepatitis C virus direct-acting antiviral drugs taken for 8-24...