FxWirePro: Gold gains after ECB’s deposit rate cut - Stay hedged with options strips

Dec 03, 2015 13:16 pm UTC| Insights & Views

ECB cuts of deposit rates to negative 0.3% from minus 0.2% are cushioning a bit in gold prices, while the ECB left its key lending rate unchanged at 0.05%.Bullion has lost nearly 7% of its value in November, its biggest...

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Why interest rates are taking divergent paths in Europe and the US

Dec 03, 2015 12:10 pm UTC| Insights & Views Central Banks

The prospect that the central banks of the US and the eurozone will soon make opposing moves on policy rates has allowed financial markets once again to demonstrate their neuroses. Some market participants are expecting...

The slow-burn, devastating impact of tobacco plain packs

Dec 03, 2015 09:57 am UTC| Insights & Views Health

It is three years since Australia fully implemented its historic tobacco plain packaging law. From December 1, 2012, all tobacco products have been required to be sold in the mandated standardised packs, which, with their...

Greens deal with government unveils tax affairs of some private companies

Dec 03, 2015 09:42 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics

A last-minute compromise between the government and the Greens will remove the secrecy around the tax affairs of an estimated 281 private companies. The deal, however, still leaves about 600 companies with revenue of...

We want to build tiny backpacks for bees – here's why

Dec 03, 2015 09:33 am UTC| Insights & Views

An exciting attempt to help honey bees has come about thanks to an unlikely intellectual marriage. One of us is an ecologist who wants to keep an eye on individual bees over their entire two to three-mile range and monitor...

Solid NFP and unemployment to boost up USD while EUR seems tepid despite ECB’s efforts

Dec 03, 2015 09:27 am UTC| Insights & Views

The upbeat nonfarm job creation astonished the streets by reporting 217K jump from the previous 196K has surpassed the forecasts at 191K, remained quite solid in November series.In addition the US ISM non-manufacturing...

Debate on whether we should use gene-editing technology is far from black and white

Dec 03, 2015 01:59 am UTC| Insights & Views Science Law

Arguments in favour of embracing gene editing focus on how it can deliver cheap treatments and cures for some truly awful medical conditions. They contest banning the technology based on all the good it can do for people,...