Nanotechnology could make our food tastier and healthier – but can we stomach it?

Jun 22, 2016 12:50 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology

Every mouthful of food we eat is teeming with chemical reactions. Adding ingredients and cooking helps us control these reactions and makes the food taste better and last longer. So what if we could target food at the...

Briferendum Series

If Scotland blocks England from Brexit, what happens next?

Jun 22, 2016 12:41 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics

Scottish voters dont regard the EU referendum with the same importance as the independence vote of 2014. No one is suggesting Scottish turnout will be anywhere near the 85% of that poll more likely 20 points below. Yet...

Briferendum Series

Game theory offers a better way forward in Britain's EU drama

Jun 22, 2016 12:35 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics

The way that the EU referendum campaigns both for and against British membership of the bloc have been handled has been redolent of game playing. As an academic who studies game theory, a number of parallels are evident....

SARB to refrain from hiking rates in July, may hike by end-2016 if CPI surprises

Jun 22, 2016 12:09 pm UTC| Insights & Views Central Banks Commentary Economy

South African Reserve Bank (SARB) will announce its interest rate decision on 21 July. In mid-May the SARB took a break in the rate hike cycle but openly admitted its dilemma between a weak real economy and high inflation...

FxWirePro: Sell-off likely in EUR swaption curve during H2

Jun 22, 2016 11:39 am UTC| Insights & Views

A glimpse on Eurobond yields: 10year European real yields are down at -0.8% and have little scope to fall further, which in turn limits EUR/USD downside to what can be caused by a rise in US real yields. They are at 10bp...

FxWirePro: New Zealand's upbeat GDP reduces prospects of OCR cut, so as US CPI for Fed hikes, lead NZD/USD at 1-year highs

Jun 22, 2016 07:34 am UTC| Insights & Views Research & Analysis

NZ produced the upbeat GDP QoQ numbers last week, actual 0.7% versus forecasts at 0.5%. New Zealand economy advanced a seasonally adjusted 0.7 pct in Q1 of 2016, following 0.9 pct expansion in the previous period and...

Vital Signs: an election in Australia, a key poll in the UK, all lead to uncertainty

Jun 21, 2016 11:42 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics

This week: A familiar theme of this column has been the significant uncertainty about the global economy that is leaving investors - and to some extent, consumers - standing on the sidelines. That in turn means...