Museum economics: how the contemporary art boom is hurting the bottom line

Aug 03, 2016 06:14 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy Business

Americans clearly love their museums, particularly in the summer months. In fact, museum attendance is estimated at about 850 million visits a year, significantly more than all the major league sporting and theme parks...

Why Big Tobacco has reason to fear the waking divestment giant

Aug 03, 2016 06:07 am UTC| Insights & Views Health

This week The Guardian published a long-form profile by veteran journalist Gideon Haigh of Dr Bronwyn King. The doctor who beat big tobacco https://t.co/fIcP2Jmuh6 Guardian Australia (@GuardianAus) August 1,...

Mobile payments and tap and go might not mean the end for tellers

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

Consumers are drawing out less cash and using other methods to pay for things such as contactless payments, but this doesnt necessarily signal the end of bank tellers or their automated counterparts. There is...

PC sets groundwork for long-awaited look at super competition and efficiency

Aug 03, 2016 06:01 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology

The Productivity Commission has released its draft report setting out criteria for assessing the competitiveness and efficiency of the superannuation system. The final report will be delivered in November this year. The...

Currency War Series

Turnbull to banks: pass on whole interest rate cut

Aug 03, 2016 05:15 am UTC| Insights & Views Central Banks

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has sternly told the banks they should pass on the whole of Tuesdays rate cut - or their chief executives must explain why they are not doing so. After the Reserve Bank cut the cash rate...

FxWirePro: Long EUR/SGD versus short USD/SGD gamma spreads form classic relative value set-up

Aug 02, 2016 12:57 pm UTC| Insights & Views

Long EUR/SGD vs. short USD/SGD gamma spreads form a classic relative value set-up with excellent entry levels, asymmetric payout profile and a long history of return outperformance. EUR vs. SGD implied correlations have...

FX Hedging Strategy Series

FxWirePro: USD/BRL hedging cost optimization via calendar spread as quasi-protected short gamma

Aug 02, 2016 12:50 pm UTC| Insights & Views

Realized vols in USD/BRL have been steadily edging lower over the past few weeks but holding stronger near 3.20 levels, and gamma screens rich despite the material 3 vol+ decline in implieds since the Brexit vote 1M...