Hundreds of teenagers will be enlisted to trial social media bans in the coming months with overnight digital curfews and daily screen time limits also tested as part of Keir Starmer’s plan to crack down on the negative effects of smartphone use. The trials will be part of a three-month consultation launched this week that…
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies (OPEC+) said on Sunday that they will boost production of crude as US and Israeli forces launched a major attack on Iran and the country responded with retaliatory strikes against Israel and US military installations around the Gulf. OPEC+ agreed a modest oil output boost of…
Australia’s January CPI delivered a double beat — headline inflation held firm at 3.8% year-over-year while the trimmed mean rose to its highest level in 16 months — but a chaotic macro backdrop made the post-event price action anything but straightforward. Which of our four Aussie strategies managed to move beyond the watchlist stage, and…
The Trillion-Dollar Yen Timebomb While global headlines fixate on the recent and severe kinetic escalations between the US/Israel and Iran in early 2026, quantitative analysts and institutional money managers are looking strictly at the map. As algorithmic developers and data scientists, we do not trade based on political narratives, morality, or hope. We trade based…
Do you recoil at oversharers on social media, or joke among your friends about “TMI”? I know I do. But while mocking public confession comes easy, it’s harder to appreciate the risks of normalising silence: withheld anxieties, unspoken family histories, and the little omissions that make workplaces and relationships brittle. The instinct to pour scorn…
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As the Israel-Iran war moves into its second day, the story is escalating fast, and markets are already treating it as a week-level event rather than a one-night shock. Reuters reported that Iranian state media confirmed the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei following US and Israeli strikes. (Reuters) In parallel, U.S. President…
ATFunded CEO leaves Topping this week’s executive moves, ATFunded CEO Joshua Dentrinos exited his position at the proprietary trading arm of global brokerage ATFX. Dentrinos was appointed to lead ATFunded in July last year, around the same time the firm disclosed that only about 6% of its traders successfully earn funded accounts. Announcing his departure,…