... ent. Most central bank governors and finance ministers are worried about escalating trade conflict between the United States and China. The International Monetary Fund has revised down global GDP grow ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-19
... k China’s central bank announced the fourth reserve requirement ratio cut this year, stepping up moves to lower financing costs amid concerns over the economic drag from a trade dispute with the Unite ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-19
... years the central government in Manila has been largely unable to bring these local barons into line. However, things have begun to change ever since Duterte took office, with the drug war he has init ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-18
... country's central bank chief and a senior official of the SOE watchdog. Yi Gang, People’s Bank of China governor, told the G30 International Banking Seminar on Sunday that the central bank will step u ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-18
... ed by the central government to draw overseas-educated Chinese elites by offering them juicy cash rewards. The reason is that “The Thousand Talents Plan” has recently come under intense scrutiny of th ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-18
... European Central Bank, and the German government have erred in insisting on rigid enforcement of the EU Stability and Growth Pact, particularly the 3 percent-of-GDP cap on fiscal deficits. Although s ...More
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US Federal Reserve officials are largely united on the need to raise interest rates further, despite criticism from President Donald Trump of the central bank's tightening moves, according to minutes ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-18
... fist, the central government wouldn’t be piling pressure on the SAR administration over the enactment of Article 23 of the Basic Law at least in the short run. That also explains why Lau was barred fr ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-16
... ernments, central banks, traditional financial institutions, and real-world currencies as evil concentrations of power that must be destroyed. Blockchain fundamentalists’ ideal world is one in which a ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-16
... lt around central banks’ loose policies and the famous “bubble of everything”. And therein lies the problem. After twenty trillion dollars of reckless monetary expansion, risk assets, from the safest ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-15
... ant,” the central bank chief said. “Tremendous uncertainties [are] ahead of us.” Yi said China’s monetary stance is still basically neutral, without an easing or tightening bias, adding that he believ ...More
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... claim the central bank dismisses, Reuters noted. His treasury chief, meanwhile, has criticized China for recent declines in the yuan’s value, and said Washington wants to make currency issues a centra ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-15
US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Friday he told China’s central bank chief that currency issues need to be part of any further US-China trade talks and expressed his concerns about the yua ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-12
... cy Occupy Central movement, and political screening of prospective candidates for the March Legislative Council by-election based on the candidates' party affiliations or political beliefs. Reiteratin ...More
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... mpted the central bank on Sunday to loosen policy by cutting banks’ reserve requirement ratio (RRR) for a fourth time this year. A US Treasury official this week voiced concerns about China’s recent c ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-12
... d was the central bank announced another cut in the banks' reserve requirement ratio, which could only ease tight liquidity in the short term. Private consumption still represents less than 40 percent ...More
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... which are central to the operation of its devices, as a strategic element that it wanted to control directly. This was not the case for sub-PMICs that manage features such as on-board cameras, he told ...More
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... . China’s central bank has been allowing the yuan to gradually decline, breaking the psychological 6.9000 barrier and leading speculators to push the dollar up to 6.9377 at 0602 GMT. The onshore yuan ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-11
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the city-state's central bank and financial regulator, is reportedly working on helping cryptocurrency firms set up local bank accounts and receive banking s ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-11
... dence the central government wants Hong Kong to be more like the mainland politically. Now that economic integration with the mainland is on a fast track, will this also mean gradual political integra ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-11
