Chinese New Year: Symbolism in the Year of the Pig

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On February 5, 2019, the Chinese New Year ushers in the Year of the Pig. Traditionally, the pig is the last animal represented in the 12-year Chinese astrological cycle.

Franklin Templeton Emerging Market Equity’s Chetan Sehgal and Andrew Ness consider how the characteristics of the Chinese zodiac’s pig might relate to some of the themes on emerging market investors’ minds in 2019.

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Chinese New Year: Symbolism in the Year of the Pig

Investment Adventures in Emerging Markets http://bit.ly/2HL6UZ2

On February 5, 2019, the Chinese New Year ushers in the Year of the Pig. Traditionally, the pig is the last animal represented in the 12-year Chinese astrological cycle.

Franklin Templeton Emerging Market Equity’s Chetan Sehgal and Andrew Ness consider how the characteristics of the Chinese zodiac’s pig might relate to some of the themes on emerging market investors’ minds in 2019.

Artykuł Chinese New Year: Symbolism in the Year of the Pig pochodzi z serwisu Investment Adventures in Emerging Markets.

A recursive painting thread on Reddit has become so complex that it warranted a web app.

At a time of economic prosperity, the deep cuts last week at BuzzFeed should be read as a threat to democracy.

The illustrator who created the look of Star Wars, John Berkey, once said sci-fi "isn’t literature."

Shark attacks are in decline, possibly due to increased beach safety—or fewer sharks.

For 25 years, Lorena Bobbitt was known for cutting off her husband's penis, not for being the victim of marital rape.

A fascinating short shows imprecise Moebius drawings made precisely with a drawing machine.

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A fascinating short shows imprecise Moebius drawings made precisely with a drawing machine.

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A Dutch church ends its 96-day vigil to shelter a refugee family.

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Taking advantage of an obscure Dutch law that forbids the police to interrupt church services, ministers at Bethel Church in the Hague had been running a round-the-clock liturgy since Oct. 26 in order to prevent the five members of the Tamrazyan family from being arrested and sent back to Armenia.

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Drug researchers look to developing pain medications that don't entirely erase pain, which often acts as protective feedback.

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According to the UN, the number of patent filings for AI has surged recently—more than half were filed since 2013.

Photos of the same window at different times of day and in changing weather, by Alper Yesiltas.

Compiled through various breaches, a list of 2.2 billion unique usernames and passwords is now being distributed on hacker forums.

A new book illuminates Silicon Valley's original, democratic promise, far removed from the "male tech genius" ideal that emerged.

Fed strikes a dovish tone in January

Home http://bit.ly/2B6YJ3F US central bank will no longer keep balance-sheet runoff on automatic pilot

Wen named global head of digital markets at JP Morgan

Home http://bit.ly/2CRKXBO Electronic trading veteran Eddie Wen shifts roles

Compared to previous Januaries, "Dry January" Google searches peaked in Britain this month, as did beer sales.

This year, 250,000 people pledged to participate in Veganuary—that's more people than in the previous four years combined.

YouTube accounts for nearly half of all streamed music, yet generates just 7% of the market's revenue.

My Game Plan For Day Trading Today

One Option Trading Blog http://bit.ly/2DMzlSs Posted 9:30 AM ET - The S&P 500 is only 30 points from the 100-day moving average. I believe that resistance level will be tested in the next week and the market rally will stall. Earnings have been good and the FOMC statement was dovish. I am watching for signs of exhaustion and I still believe the next strong move is down. Apple rallied after posting results Tuesday evening and Facebook is up 12% after posting results yesterday. BA, AMD and WYNN are other notable winners. Microsoft is down 2.4% after reporting earnings. In general, the results have been good, but …

My Game Plan For Day Trading Today

One Option Trading Blog http://bit.ly/2DMzlSs Posted 9:30 AM ET - The S&P 500 is only 30 points from the 100-day moving average. I believe that resistance level will be tested in the next week and the market rally will stall. Earnings have been good and the FOMC statement was dovish. I am watching for signs of exhaustion and I still believe the next strong move is down. Apple rallied after posting results Tuesday evening and Facebook is up 12% after posting results yesterday. BA, AMD and WYNN are other notable winners. Microsoft is down 2.4% after reporting earnings. In general, the results have been good, but …

Thursday headlines: Placebo buttons and the toil of glamour.

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The #1 Stock To Invest In Cannabis Edibles

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Cannabis edibles are expected to be one of the fastest growing cannabis subsectors in the next four years. According to a recent report by leading cannabis research firm Arcview Market Research, spending on edibles in the US topped $1 billion in 2018. With Canada set to legalize edibles this year and more US states legalizing […]

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Refinitiv launches FXall TCA

Home http://bit.ly/2BcKZV7 Analysis tool will become available on Refinitiv’s other trading platforms

StanChart to pay $40 million for attempted FX manipulation

Home http://bit.ly/2MFTRqA UK bank says it now has appropriate control framework in place

Gill to head Asia-Pacific G10 FX trading for Barclays, Singapore

Home http://bit.ly/2GcnQFx UK bank’s second senior FX hire in as many months in the city-state

Wall Street Surges Higher On Fed News And Earnings

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Hello traders everywhere. Stocks were already performing well on the day with the DOW getting a large boost from the like of Apple and Boeing, but they received another boost after the Federal Reserve kept interest rates unchanged and stated it will be patient with raising rates moving forward. In a statement, the Federal Reserve […]

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Northern Trust hires Fyda as head of local markets for global FX

Home http://bit.ly/2DJ3amW Twenty-year veteran Paul Fyda will help clients navigate complexities of emerging markets

FX turnover in UK slips from previous record high

Home http://bit.ly/2TlB8Dh Average daily London trading was lower in October, as were the tallies in New York and Singapore

Wednesday Headlines: It’s gonna be cold, it’s gonna be gray, and it’s gonna last you for the rest o

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iRobot unveils the Terra, a lawn-cutting robot with Roomba-like controls.

Amazon Prime's movie library is more than 4.5x bigger than that of Netflix, but with far fewer titles that people like.

Your weekly white paper: We threw away 48.5 million tons of e-waste last year, the world's fastest-growing waste stream.

The Biggest Market Threat - It’s Not the FOMC - News Pending

One Option Trading Blog http://bit.ly/2G0zzYk Posted 9:30 AM ET - The S&P 500 has been compressing in a tight range the last seven trading days. The upward momentum from the oversold bounce has stalled. Traders are waiting for major announcements this week and the outcome will determine market direction in February. Apple posted results and iPhone sales were slightly below expectations. Service revenues were up 19% and that took some of the bite out of the announcement. The stock is up 5% and we are seeing a small relief rally. Given that the stock is near its 52-week low this is not much of a bounce. …

The Biggest Market Threat - It’s Not the FOMC - News Pending

One Option Trading Blog http://bit.ly/2G0zzYk Posted 9:30 AM ET - The S&P 500 has been compressing in a tight range the last seven trading days. The upward momentum from the oversold bounce has stalled. Traders are waiting for major announcements this week and the outcome will determine market direction in February. Apple posted results and iPhone sales were slightly below expectations. Service revenues were up 19% and that took some of the bite out of the announcement. The stock is up 5% and we are seeing a small relief rally. Given that the stock is near its 52-week low this is not much of a bounce. …

Why are millennials miserable? Because performative workaholism—aka, "toil glamour"—is now a lifestyle, despite its empty rewards.

"It’s no small feat to write to me." An interview with the guy behind the stories on Instagram's "The Aids Memorial."

"Every square foot counted." RIP Florence Knoll Bassett, the designer who made office space a conscious artistic statement.

Trump will spend the rest of his life “trying to demonstrate that he was right about whatever it was that he said or did before.”

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There will be no new work done until he’s out of this job, not just because the venal and idiotic criminality that has defined his life belatedly appears to be catching up with him but because it simply isn’t in him to do new work, and because his current job transparently doesn’t matter to him at all.

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BoJ members split ranks on monetary easing

Home http://bit.ly/2RYRyVt Not all members agree on how low 10-year yields should be

Placebo buttons at road crossings, like in NYC, make it harder for pedestrians to believe real ones actually exist, like in LA.

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Shutdown Or Not, The Fed Abides

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Here’s an additional reason to be thankful for the independence of the Federal Reserve. Since the Fed does not receive funding through the congressional budgetary process and is largely self-funded through the interest on its massive government securities portfolio, plus its many other activities, we don’t have to worry that this week’s Federal Open Market […]

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Pictures from Australia's January heat wave, which follows the warmest December on record.

From Australia to Chicago: more greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere increase the chances of abnormal temperatures.

Equipment owned by California’s three largest utilities ignited more than 2,000 fires in 3.5 years. They were fined nine times.

Chef Roy Choi finally responds to the bad press around the closure of his healthy-fast-food concept restaurant.

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The headlines bothered me because they started with ‘failure.’ But that’s only if you equate success and failure based upon financial gain.

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When Trump's FCC killed net neutrality, it promised investment, job creation, and broadband growth in underserved areas. Alas.

On Malcolm Gladwell's recent reporting on pot and schizophrenia—"a smorgasbord of logical fallacies and data-free fear-mongering."

FCA: ‘We can be Libor fallback trigger’

Home http://bit.ly/2ScPFUK Amid fears of hedging mayhem, Schooling Latter says FCA verdict could activate smoother rates switch

HSBC adds Cheesman to sales team

Home http://bit.ly/2RWDZ9a New York-based Jonathan Cheesman worked in FX sales at Goldman Sachs

The Impact of US Policy on Emerging Markets: Three Investor Misconceptions

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As investors continue to grapple with market jitters brought on by months of US-China trade tensions and other market uncertainties, Franklin Templeton Emerging Markets Equity’s Chetan Sehgal explains why the recent volatility could present opportunities in the medium to long term. He also considers some investor misconceptions about emerging markets and the positive factors that many are missing in part three of this series, “The Impact of US Policy on Emerging Markets.”

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CME clears FX cash-settled forwards for first time

Home http://bit.ly/2DHGpQm Service debuts in January with two EUR/USD trades

IHS Markit takes stake in Cobalt

Home http://bit.ly/2GgcEYH Cobalt’s platform is connected to MarkitServ’s network of counterparties

The Impact of US Policy on Emerging Markets: Three Investor Misconceptions

Investment Adventures in Emerging Markets http://bit.ly/2Bb3uJz

As investors continue to grapple with market jitters brought on by months of US-China trade tensions and other market uncertainties, Franklin Templeton Emerging Markets Equity’s Chetan Sehgal explains why the recent volatility could present opportunities in the medium to long term. He also considers some investor misconceptions about emerging markets and the positive factors that many are missing in part three of this series, “The Impact of US Policy on Emerging Markets.”

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PBoC: new liquidity tool is not ‘Chinese version of QE’

Home http://bit.ly/2MGjw2p Growth-boosting measure equates to three-year easing, says one analyst

A Peter Thiel-funded magazine spreads junk science, apparently to controvert mainstream evolutionary biology and climate science.

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The goal was to address the global scientific community through “more sophisticated articles than you would see in Aeon or n+1 or even Quanta... But not the peer-reviewed scientific journals like Nature or Science.”

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Once thought to mirror each other, the Northern and Southern lights don't match, possibly due to the Sun's pressure.

Through a recently uncovered iOS bug, you could listen to people via FaceTime before they answered your call.

Not yet convicted of a crime, pretrial detainees who can't afford bail occupy 75% of Texas county jail beds.

Previously unreleased footage of New Order playing "Ceremony" in Manchester in 1981, less than a year after Ian Curtis's death.

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Previously unreleased footage of New Order playing "Ceremony" in Manchester in 1981, less than a year after Ian Curtis's death.

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Facebook now blocks tools that reveal how users are targeted—"to keep people’s information safe," according to a spokesperson.

In northern Mexico, 40,000 textile workers are on a wildcat strike after a corporate tax cut.

Top Performing ETFs Of 2018

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2018 was a wild year as we saw the markets rise to new all-time highs in the first half of the year only to crash during the last quarter of the year causing the major indexes to all close in the red for the year, for the first time in over a decade. But despite […]

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Using small "cube satellites," startups are offering surveillance to businesses who want a peek at what other companies are up to.

Like Russia, the US is producing a low-yield nuke for a conventional war that—in theory—wouldn't escalate to a "nuclear war."

New polls find most Americans are worried about climate change, but few would pay more than a dollar a month to fix it.

Javier Riera's light projections fit perfectly on trees and their branches, overlaying geometric shapes on nature.

Brain scans of people on LSD find the drug appears to work by flooding the thalamus—which normally acts as a filter—with signals.

Former Joshua Tree National Park head says damage to the park during the shutdown could take up to 300 years to repair.

Recorded music revenue and sales by format from 1973 onward show the Napster cliff and the rise of downloads and streaming.

Tuesday headlines: You are what you share.

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Among white American families with young children, handgun ownership is increasing, as are childhood gunshot deaths.

This shutdown was painful enough that Congress finally appears ready to legislate to end these recurring funding debacles.

This Is A Critical Week For the Market - Major News

One Option Trading Blog http://bit.ly/2MCUdyk Posted 9:30 AM ET - The news during the next 36 hours will be critical for the market. We will wait for the reaction and act accordingly. England will hold a Brexit vote today and Apple will post earnings after the close. Tomorrow before the open the ADP report will be released and BABA and BA will post earnings. The FOMC statement will be released Wednesday afternoon and MSFT, FB, QCOM, TSLA and PYPL will announce after the close. Thursday morning we will get a feel for China's growth and the official PMI will be posted. After the close Thursday, Amazon …

This Is A Critical Week For the Market - Major News

One Option Trading Blog http://bit.ly/2MCUdyk Posted 9:30 AM ET - The news during the next 36 hours will be critical for the market. We will wait for the reaction and act accordingly. England will hold a Brexit vote today and Apple will post earnings after the close. Tomorrow before the open the ADP report will be released and BABA and BA will post earnings. The FOMC statement will be released Wednesday afternoon and MSFT, FB, QCOM, TSLA and PYPL will announce after the close. Thursday morning we will get a feel for China's growth and the official PMI will be posted. After the close Thursday, Amazon …

LMAX Exchange hires two in FX sales in Asia

Home http://bit.ly/2RXvF90 Appointments come on the back of the platform’s strong growth in the region

Provenzano joins Edgewater Markets

Home http://bit.ly/2HCY4N8 New York-based Sal Provenzano appointed managing director of e-FX sales