. By Oren Laurent President, Banc De Binary We are mere days away from the Federal Reserve’s very first interest-rate hike in over nine years. Such is the significance of this historic monetary policy decision that equities markets, currency markets, indices and commodities are nervously jockeying for position. Whenever central banks like the Bank of

. Marcuard’s Market update by GaveKal Dragonomics As oil prices tumble and the first US interest rate hike for eight years comes into view, bond investors in the high-yield segment are taking flight. The market was given a foretaste of what a disorderly unwinding of an over-bought US corporate bond market may look like late

. At a time when efforts are still underway to contain the drop in GDP, keep output levels healthy and maintain employment wherever possible, the civil servants’ union PASYDY has once again showed how irrelevant it is to the reality when it threatens to strike against any measures to raise the retirement age for government

. By Dr Olga Kandinskaia If you are not familiar with the legendary quotes of Yogi Berra, you must be seriously wondering what this headline means. A uniquely successful baseball catcher with the New York Yankees for almost two decades, elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972, Yogi Berra also became known as

. Diplomacy vs foreign policy THE FUNCTIONS OF A DIPLOMAT AND THEIR PROTOCOL DIMENSIONS Dr Andrestinos N. Papadopoulos Ambassador a.h. I would like, at the outset, to make a distinction between diplomacy and foreign policy, as many people are confusing these two notions. Foreign policy charts the course to be followed by the state in

. By Dr. Jim Leontiades Cyprus International Institute of Management Now that 2015 is rapidly fading in the rear view mirror, it is time to consider what we may expect in the probable future. The following are some probable possibilities: Greece: Tsipras loses his current governing majority as more members of his coalition mutiny and

. By Oren Laurent President, Banc De Binary On Friday, December 4, US non-farm payroll data was released – the last time this will happen in 2015. The consensus estimate figure for November was 200,000 new jobs; however the actual figure came in over 5% above expectations at 211,000 new jobs created. This follows an