Investors appear to be especially keen on downside protection around this election. In September Cameron Crise, a strategist at Bloomberg, wrote that VIX futures markets have never had an event risk command this sort of premium. Even more unusually,...
Almost all this labour, he discovered in Haryanawhich was a hotbed of itwas indentured servitude. The workers were landless Dalits or their children, forced to borrow to pay for medicines or dowries from a local, higher-caste moneylender. The average...
Swami Agnivesh (Vepa Shyam Rao), champion of Indias indentured labourers, died on September 11th, aged 80. 印度契约劳工斗士斯瓦米阿涅维什（韦帕施拉姆拉奥）于9月11日逝世，享年80岁。 The hindu life-stage of sanyasa, or...
Tanzania barred Tundu Lissu, the opposition leader, from campaigning for president for seven days, claiming that his speeches criticising the government were unethical. Elections are on October 28th. Opposition offices have been firebombed. 坦桑尼亚...
The world this week 本周国际要闻 Politics 政治 Donald Trumps doctors were keeping a close eye on their patient, after the 74-year-old president checked out of hospital just three days after being admitted for treatment for COVID-19. Around 20...
She may be too late. Attendance was declining before covid-19. To distinguish a night at the movies from a night with Netflix, cinemas built snazzy multiplexes with waiters ferrying burgers to viewers lolling in reclining seats. This helped rack up d...
America's presidential election 美国大选 Braced for impact 准备就绪 How investors are hedging against the risk of post-election chaos 投资者如何对冲选举后混乱的风险 Election years are not often the best times for stockmarket in...
She may be too late. Attendance was declining before covid-19. To distinguish a night at the movies from a night with Netflix, cinemas built snazzy multiplexes with waiters ferrying burgers to viewers lolling in reclining seats. This helped rack up d...
Business 商业版块 Cinemas 电影院 Curtains 无法摆脱的困境 Audiences may be ready to return. Will they have anything to watch? 观众们可能已经准备好回归电影院了。那他们有什么影片可看呢？ It is turning out to be...
Labour markets in Europe 欧洲的劳动力市场 Pain relief 已止痛 The successes of furlough schemesand their side effects 休假计划的成功及其负面影响 So impressive is Germany's trading prowess that when the coronavirus pandemic stru...
