... t. The US Federal Reserve is unlikely to hike interest rates aggressively. However, that could change if US households' income and rents falls along with slower economic growth. What seems like a reas ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-07
... t. The US Federal Reserve is widely expected to raise interest rates at its mid-December meeting after keeping its key policy rate pinned near zero for the past seven years. A robust rise in November ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-07
The US Federal Reserve is set to raise interest rates soon, while Europe is poised to expand monetary easing to contain the deflationary risk. Clearly, the United States and Europe are treading diverg ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-05
... ts the US Federal Reserve to raise its key interest rate by 25 basis points this month and steadily adjust the rate higher to take it to one percent by the end of 2016 and to 2 percent by the end of 2 ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-04
Janet Yellen has set a bottom line for jobs growth in the United States. Speaking the day before a key employment report, the US Federal Reserve chairwoman said the US economy needs to add fewer than ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-04
... local and federal government officials as saying. Despite a slowdown in Chinese VIP gamblers in Macau, Summit's Landheer said Tigre de Cristal and the Vladivostok zone as a whole are in a unique posit ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-04
... a senior federal official who was monitoring the case, reported that investigators believe one of the shooters left the party after getting into an argument and returned with one or two armed compani ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-03
Over the next few weeks, the US Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank are likely to put in place notably different policies. The Fed is set to raise interest rates for the first time in almost ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-03
An investigation into a massive US computer breach last year that compromised data on more than 22 million federal workers found that the hacking attack was criminal, not state-sponsored, the official ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-03
Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen on Wednesday expressed confidence in the US economy and said that she is "looking forward" to the central bank's first interest rate hike in nearly a decade. "W ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-03
... isks. The Federal Reserve's tightening policy has made the global financing environment particularly challenging. And with the Fed moving more slowly than expected toward an anticipated interest rate ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-02
... ustralian Federal Police declined to comment on the matter. The Department of Defense said in a statement that it was barred by policy from commenting on specific cyber security incidents. The Chinese ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-02
The US Federal Reserve Board on Monday adopted a rule that limits its ability to extend emergency loans to failing financial firms. The decision came after the central bank faced criticism earlier ove ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-01
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has used a secretive authority to compel internet and telecommunications firms to hand over customer data including an individual’s complete web browsing history ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-01
... that the federal and state governments are facing up to it and working hard to aid the victims and thwart the criminals who exploit them. In Hong Kong, the problem is certainly not as obvious as in o ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-30
... y and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York pointed out as early as 15 years ago that the high-yield bonds' spread contains a sea of financial market information, which helps in predicting the market m ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-28
... by the US Federal Reserve won’t be the trigger for a property correction, since the rate hikes will be very modest and gradual. Instead, the financial turmoil the rate hikes will cause, in particular ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-26
... ng the US Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank, launched various monetary easing measures that released an unprecedented amount of liquidity. Seven years later, the amount of funds flooding t ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-26
... week by a federal court in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, provide a window into the Federal Bureau of Investigation's probe of what would amount to the largest collection of stolen user names and passwords. Th ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-25
The US Federal Reserve is almost certain to raise interest rates in its next board meeting on Dec. 16, with financial markets now pricing in a 75 percent probability of a rate hike. Meanwhile, market ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-24
