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
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... 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
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... 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
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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
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... 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
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... ether the central bank will support markets the way it was seen to have done under previous Fed chairs. Impact on elections A stock market downturn hitting voters’ retirement savings would be inopport ...More
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... dence the central government wants Hong Kong to be more ...全文
今日信報時事評論STRAIGHT-SHOOTING褚簡寧 Michael Chugani2018年10月11日
... while the central government is able to diagnose the economic problems precisely, it is avoiding cure. Amid the grim economic outlook, mainland authorities are resorting to two extreme measures to min ...More
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... da of the central authorities. Some members of the pro-Beijing camp also said they had never heard of the suggestion. Nor did they think criminalizing separatist rhetoric in Hong Kong is feasible beca ...More
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Leighton Contractors (Asia), the entity responsible for building the underground platforms at Hung Hom Station for MTR Corporation's HK$97.1 billion Shatin-Central Link (SCL) rail project, should have ...More
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... au in the Central Waters, North Lantau as well as the coastal areas of Tuen Mun, and will be supported by a new set of transport networks connecting various development areas. She expects these areas ...More
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... European Central Bank has been the only buyer of Italian bonds for months. You have to look at 20 or 30-year maturities in the eurozone to find sovereign bonds yielding more than inflation expectatio ...More
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... rters the central bank is going too fast in raising rates when inflation is minimal and government data points to a strong economy. “Well, I like to see low interest rates. The Fed is doing what it th ...More
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The government has meted out punishments to four contractors responsible for the shoddy-work scandals that have rocked the HK$87.3 billion MTR Shatin-Central Link (SCL) project. The Development Bureau ...More
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... Shatin-to-Central Link, the Legco's railways subcommittee has got a lot of media exposure in recent months. Tien, in his capacity as chairman of the subcommittee, has seen a surge in popularity among ...More
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... after the central bank stopped publishing such information nearly three years ago as the economy began unraveling. The International Monetary Fund estimates consumer prices would rise 1,000,000 percen ...More
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