China CPI surge only temporary, PBoC's accommodative monetary policy likely to persist

Mar 10, 2016 11:56 am UTC| Insights & Views

Chinas consumer price inflation rose 2.3 percent from a year ago, faster than Januarys 1.8 percent rise and well above Reuters expectations for 1.9 percent rise. The headline CPI inflation might continue to be relatively...

FX Hedging Strategy Series

FxWirePro: Norwegian CPI prints in positive again, EUR/NOK IVs extending above 20% ahead of ECB and Norges bank's monetary policy

Mar 10, 2016 10:33 am UTC| Insights & Views

Euro holding stronger against Norwegian krone from the slumps as the ECB likely to deliver dovish policy outcomes, we expect both a 20bp cut in its deposit rate and a 20bn expansion of its monthly asset purchases. On...

Housing policy is captive to property politics, so don't expect politicians to tackle affordability

Mar 10, 2016 04:31 am UTC| Insights & Views Real Estate

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbulls recent warnings that house prices would fall steeply under a Labor government confirm the underlying politics of housing policy in Australia. The default position for politicians is to...

Climate Change Series

How climate denial gained a foothold in the Liberal Party, and why it still won't go away

Mar 10, 2016 02:39 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature

It seems the Liberal Party is still having trouble letting go of climate denial, judging by the New South Wales branchs demand that the Turnbull government arrange a series of public debates on climate science. Leaving...

US Election Series

Poll trend to Labor continues; Trump, Cruz battle for Republican nomination

Mar 10, 2016 00:08 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics

This weeks 50-50 Newspoll showed that last fortnights Newspoll was no fluke, and we also now have a 50-50 from Essential. Morgan is at 53-47 to the Coalition, but Labors primary vote of only 29.5% in Morgan seems far too...

Should academics be policy-relevant realists or cosmopolitan idealists?

Mar 09, 2016 22:36 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics

One of Oscar Wildes more memorable and inspiring aphorisms claimed that a map of the world without utopia on it is not worth looking at. While many of us might agree with the sentiment, the theory let alone the practice ...

Is access to our phones a step toward the police wanting access to our minds?

Mar 09, 2016 22:34 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law

We use our smartphones so much these days, it almost feels like they have become extensions of ourselves, boosting our capacity to calculate and remember. What might come of this closer union of human and technological...