US policymakers will loosen monetary policy, not tighten it, in their next move, says Bridgewater Associates, the world's largest hedge fund. Founder Ray Dalio said the Federal Reserve is paying to ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-26
... d the [US Federal Reserve] may still hike rates before the end of the year. That puts further cracks into the two main growth pillars for the world economy of recent years: Chinese demand [including c ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-25
... in a new federal constitution expected to be finalised this month. The protesters, mainly from ethnic Tharu community, are demanding a separate province comprising eight districts in the southwestern ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-25
... nday. The Federal Reserve has hinted at a September tightening of US benchmark rates after eight years of near-zero interest rates. Monday's rout, which follows weeks of jitters over the extent of Chi ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-25
... nched the Federal Skilled Trades Program in 2012, attracting 3,000 electricians and plumbers annually from all over the world to help solve its shortage of technical workers. That’s to say that it is ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-22
... vels? The Federal Reserve will only take into account its own needs when making interest rate decisions. The Fed rate cut in 1994 bolstered Hong Kong's already booming housing market. On the other ha ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-22
... when the Federal Reserve starts tightening monetary policy in light of the economic uptick. Asian markets would suffer from sell-offs in equities, foreign exchange and bonds. The cycle has been playe ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-21
... th the US Federal Reserve’s rate lift-off. The Fed started winding up its QE3 stimulus program in mid-2014, and this drove the dollar index to surge over 25 percent until the first quarter of this yea ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-21
... the July Federal Reserve meeting, which cooled expectations that the US central bank will start raising interest rates as early as September. -- Contact us at [email protected] RC ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-21
... e. The US Federal Bureau of Investigation and Canadian law enforcement agencies have launched an investigation into the data breach. -- Contact us at [email protected] KZ/AC/CG ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-20
A specific liftoff date for US interest rates is nowhere in sight four weeks before the Federal Reserve meets to consider the matter. Fed officials left a launch date vague at their last policy meeti ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-20
... le of the federal funds rate as expected by the end of this year. China, on the other hand, has room to implement more monetary easing measures given the high levels of its reserve requirement ratio f ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-17
... ke by the Federal Reserve. That said, as there are fears that China's economic woes could slow down US recovery, will the Fed again delay the "lift-off"? Looking at the US dollar index and yield mov ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-15
... ffect the Federal Reserve's rate hike schedule. US-listed Chinese companies have suffered from massive sell-offs following the yuan decline. The Hong Kong market also reacted dramatically. By contrast ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-14
... er the US Federal Reserve began winding up QE in late 2014. Capital flight has speeded up in China given gloomy economic outlook. Foreign funds have been flowing out of China since mid-2014, as indica ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-13
... Malaysian federal government, threatening that it was going to secede from Malaysia. The cause of this dispute was that the Secretary for Culture and Tourism in Kuala Lumpur, Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz, ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-13
... er by the Federal Reserve. And with the era of easy money coming to an end, the US market is expected to pick up in the fourth quarter. More support Beijing is set to announce further moves to stimula ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-12
US airlines have logged five straight years without a fatal crash, according to federal aviation authorities. Last year's accident rate for domestic carriers was one accident for roughly 300,000 depa ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-12
... when the Federal Reserve halted quantitative easing. That perhaps explains why almost all developers are taking advantage of this golden window to cash out. Jacinto Tong, a property bear who earlier ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-10
The US Federal Reserve is set to hike interest rates this year, remarks from Janet Yellen and other Fed officials suggest it’s getting closer to doing so. The Fed funds rate shows there is now an 80 ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-08
