... pled with central bank tightening. Between June 2004 and June 2006, the US Federal Reserve Board hiked rates 17 times, raising its policy rate from 1 percent to 5.25 percent. Between 2005 and 2008, th ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-13
... Hong Kong Central office rents have edged up another 1 percent in 4Q 2018, bringing the full year increase to 8 percent. This is further evidence that office demand in Hong Kong is robust enough to no ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-13
... （national central authority）來負責處理移交逃犯事宜，相信北京打算由中國國務院級別單 ...全文
... r outside Central and Western District Promenade (Central Section) from March 22 for a total of 10 days. According to a spokesperson, people in Hong Kong will see a different Companion from the ones d ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-12
... that the central authorities may be paving the way for enactment of Article 23 of the Basic Law, which deals with the issue of national security, by asking the chief executive to hand in the report, ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-12
... iquidity, central banks in both US and China have begun to ease their monetary policies. The added liquidity needs to go somewhere, and 5G related investments could be a natural choice. Investment is ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-12
For almost a year, Hong Kong’s MTR Corporation has been mired in scandal. Reports of shoddy work in the US$12.4 billion Shatin-to-Central Link project led to the setting up of a commission of inquiry, ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-12
... that the central authorities have asked Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor to complete the task of legislating Article 23 of the Basic Law before her current term ends in June 2022, seeing th ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-11
China’s central bank pledged to further support the slowing economy by spurring loans and lowering borrowing costs, following data that showed a sharp drop in February’s bank lending due to seasonal f ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-11
... company's central control room did not switch on an overhead warning sign nor did it dispatch a recovery vehicle to the scene until it was informed by a citizen that a truck had stalled in the area, t ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-08
... erge as a central issue in the debate, said Spatt, who has a working paper on the topic. The regulator has also ordered exchanges to justify recent fee hikes for market data, and has mandated a pilot ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-08
The European Central Bank changed tack on its tightening plan, pushing back the timing of its first post-crisis rate hike until 2020 at the earliest and offering banks a new round of cheap loans to he ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-08
... that the central control room finally took notice of the incident after having received a citizen’s report. The central control room then immediately sent patrol and recovery vehicles to the scene, w ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-07
The Kazakh government, in defense of Kazakh and by implication Central Asian behind-closed-doors diplomacy towards China in the face of mounting domestic pressure, has offered a rare public account of ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-07
... ntly, its central focus would be preventing both growth in plastics pollution and harm to human health at all phases of the production cycle. We all have a right to live in a healthy environment. But ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-07
... heast and central Asia, the Middle East, Europe and Africa, through an infrastructure network on the lines of the old Silk Road. Aside from boosting trade and investment, Xi aims to advance exchanges ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-07
... . The ex-central bank chief, who is currently a Distinguished Fellow in Residence at the Washington-based Brookings Institution, will hold forth on March 25 on the topic "Where does global monetary p ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-05
... in Grand Central, a new housing development in Kwung Tong through Newman for about HK$247 million, making it its biggest purchase in any single project. The purchases were exempt from the 15 percent ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-05
... zation of central banks. In 2018 we saw the first drop in global liquidity in more than a decade, and that generated significant losses in financial markets. Since the end of December stock markets ha ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-05
Just as the US Federal Reserve seems to have beaten back blistering tweets from President Donald Trump, the next battle for central bank independence is already unfolding. And this one could potential ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-05
