11 July 2016

Turnbull Declares Victory Even as Australia Vote Outcome Unclear

Coalition may clinch enough seats to form majority government Former banker lacks strong mandate for economic reforms While annual growth has accelerated toward its 30-year average of 3.2 percent and unemployment has fallen to 5.7 percent, Australians don’t feel richer. The nation is the world’s most China-dependent developed economy and needs new growth drivers after prices for its iron ore and coal exports plunged.

11 July 2016

Italian banks are in desperate need of a bailout

In the meantime, we look forward to the next pan-European bank bailout, now that even Germany’s biggest bank has thrown in its support behind the proposal, which means Merkel and Schauble’s resistance will promptly evaporate in the coming days as insolvent banks across Europe once again get rescued by taxpayers, in the process further escalating populist anger at the treatment of banks, leading to more […]

10 July 2016

Japan – Decline & Fall Of The Biggest Bond Market In The World

Bank of Japan has reached the practical limit of its government buying programme in terms of its current purchase programme of Â¥80tn relative to estimated annual JGB net new issuance of Â¥34tn. In this respect, the Japanese central bank has from a potentially monetisation standpoint always defended the integrity of its JGB purchase programme by stressing that it only buys JGBs in the secondary market, […]

8 July 2016

Quant Currency Fund Wins on Pound Plunge by Looking Past Brexit

no matter which kind of analysis you automate with quant trading, it’s safe to say the old school funds no longer cut it. Machines are outpacing humans day after day, week after week and month after month. After all, how many humans can analyse 50 factors and use quantitative models to exploit economic fundamentals dispersion across multiple countries? fundamental analysis is simple to implement. However, it’s […]

7 July 2016

How to Reset Your Forgotten Password in Windows 10

Thankfully, the process of recovering your password in Windows 10 is much the same as it has been in Windows 8 and above, albeit with a few slight tweaks. Here’s how you can recover both your Microsoft Live 10 login, as well as the credentials for any other users registered with the local machine.

5 July 2016

RBA keeps rates unchanged; further information needed to refine assessment

The RBA Board decided to leave the cash rate unchanged at 1.75 per cent, as widely expected by market participants. The RBA noted: “Taking account of the available information, the Board judged that holding monetary policy steady would be prudent at this meeting. Over the period ahead, further information should allow the Board to refine its assessment of the outlook for growth and inflation and […]