... economic slack as manufacturing cools, continued to expand in February but at its slowest pace since late 2008. The official non-manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) fell to 52.7 from Janua ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-01
... gement. A slack regulatory environment breeds dubious operators. Cases of financial crimes related to P2P lending rocketed along with the sector’s explosive expansion. Meanwhile, keen competition for ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-29
... ng up the slack as is needed to rebalance the economy. That is bad news for policymakers in Beijing, scrambling to stabilize swooning financial markets and with growth slowing to 6.9 percent last year ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-29
... absorbing slack in the labor market. Though unemployment at 5 percent is at or near the level many policymakers consider to be full employment, Yellen said that high levels of discouraged workers, par ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-04
... Africa’s slack arms control, buy Chinese-made munitions via agents like African officials and businessmen. In The Canon of Sherlock Holmes, the British detective once had an interesting discussion wi ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-03
... ng up the slack in demand. The US economic expansion is likely to slow soon as the Fed raises interest rates. And Europe’s relatively recent recovery will probably be moderate and tilted toward domest ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-20
... onomy and slack global demand, mainland firms are under mounting pressure to step up their game, create new products and compete in the higher-end market. As a fund-raising center, Hong Kong has been ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-12
... ck up the slack from falling exports. "When we started there was huge demand so we could control prices, big margins no problem," said Xavier Grangier, sales director at logistics firm Europasia, whic ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-02
... ng up the slack and become China’s new growth engine, is not immune from the trouble, at least to some extent. Last week, Baidu was reported to be putting on hold its massive recruitment and expansion ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-29
... oncerning slack maintenance or occasionally inaccurate arrival time, most passengers feel the system has made their daily commute more predictable. Previously, they often had to wait in sheer boredom ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-16
... buting to slack in labor markets. The views expressed in this article are those of Tom Orlik and Fielding Chen, economists at Bloomberg Intelligence. -- Contact us at [email protected] FL ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-16
... oving and slack in the economy diminishing. "We have a pretty good domestic expansion," Bernanke said in the latest interview. "The household sector, which is driving growth, has been solid for a whil ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-08
... rices and slack demand from China slash revenue from the crude exports that generate nearly all of its export earnings and public revenue. In Zambia, copper mines are laying off workers or closing bec ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-18
... aid labor slack had "diminished somewhat." The Fed also said it now only needs to see "some" more improvement in the labor market, a qualification that analysts said strongly suggested it believes the ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-30
... tics like slack regulation, hoaxes and shenanigans as well as the illusion that the market can only soar further, the mainland market runs opposite to these principles. While it appears that the index ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-14
... so-called slack-fill law, which prohibits the use of oversize packaging to make products appear larger. Olay is one of P&G’s biggest beauty brands, with sales of more than US$2 billion globally. ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-08
... t it some slack -- it can come in handy someday, is very decorative and may even save us from the impact of climate change. -- Contact us at [email protected] FL ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-26
... - who was slack in his job and hounded by rumors of corruption -- was transferred to a nominal position in the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Princelings of communist officials in ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-09
... has been slack in responding to locals' mounting rancor, but the truth is that multi-entry visas for Shenzhen residents are issued by Guangdong provincial public security department. Imposition of an ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-03
... up for a slack in the high-end market that is hurting from China's unrelenting campaign against corruption and extravagance. Overall occupancy was about 90 percent on the second day of the new year, ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-23
