FxWirePro: Deploy USD/RUB diagonal put spread contemplating on reducing import substitution and restrained crude prices

Jul 05, 2016 11:17 am UTC| Insights & Views

The driving forces that could lead RUB:The import substitution policies in focus: In our view, the Russian import substitution policies are unlikely to be successful. As things stand the agriculture and machinery sectors...

FX Hedging Strategy Series

FxWirePro: Oil driven currencies lag the prices, likely to catch up – Hedge NOK and CAD risks via FX options

Jul 05, 2016 08:48 am UTC| Insights & Views

NOK: Norwegian interest rates are very closely correlated to oil prices, so the FX/rates link implicitly embeds the sensitivity to the commodity complex as a core driver. Not only is the NOK lagging the oil bounce and...

FX Hedging Strategy Series

FxWirePro: Stay hedged or arbitraged in WTI crude ahead of economic concerns and API guesstimates

Jul 05, 2016 08:18 am UTC| Technicals Insights & Views

Technically, both daily and weekly charts suggest sell indications as there RSI signaling downward convergence with the slumping prices (currently RSI 14 trending at around 60 levels), while %D crossover sustains on slow...

FxWirePro: Platinum likely to outclass among precious metals space as D/S ratio plays its role again

Jul 05, 2016 06:10 am UTC| Insights & Views

Platinum: Improved investor sentiment on PGMs and anticipated increases in physical investment purchases in 2016 have prompted an upward revision to our platinum price forecast from the last quarterly review. Lower mine...

How Uber opens cities only to close them

Jul 05, 2016 01:16 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology

Most of us know the story of what Salons Elias Isquith calls Wall Streets favourite disrupter. Uber, the ride-hailing service run primarily through smartphones, is a global economic success story. In 2008, it was but an...

Currency War Series

In a world of low rates, what else can the RBA and central banks do?

Jul 05, 2016 01:12 am UTC| Insights & Views Central Banks

The world still needs the central banks to bail us out of trouble but the impact of monetary policy is complicated in a world of zero or near-zero interest-rate policy (ZIRP) and negative interest-rate policy...

Ordinary Iraqis defy sectarianism after Islamic State's attacks on Baghdad

Jul 04, 2016 19:44 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics

Im happy that I graduated. Im so grateful to my parents and I dedicate my success to both of them. These were the final words written by Adnan, a victim of a deadly attack on Sundays early hours in the crowded, buzzing...