China’s central bank announced a steep cut in the level of cash that banks must hold as reserves, stepping up moves to lower financing costs and spur growth amid an escalating trade dispute with the U ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-08
... ha Tin to Central rail link on the grounds that everyone else was to blame. This might just have worked had it not been revealed that the board he leads knowingly misled the public about what was goin ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-05
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), the de facto central bank, has recently unveiled the Faster Payment System (FPS). The system, operated by Hong Kong Interbank Clearing Limited, allows instant ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-05
Concrete slabs used in building underground platforms at the MTR Shatin-Central Link (SCL) may be smashed open to allow the inspection of their construction and allay public fears over the safety of t ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-05
... clear in Central and Eastern Europe, where the region’s mini-Trumps are presiding over their own bogs of corruption. In Poland, the de facto leader of the Law and Justice (PiS) party’s government, Ja ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-05
It is said that asset prices reflect the current status of money supply. Is the global money supply increasing or decreasing? The balance sheet of central banks serves as the monetary base. Through th ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-04
... “Old Town Central” last year. This year, it launched the “living museum” promotion in Sham Shui Po, which helps visitors locate stores that sell high-quality yet affordable clothing and restaurants th ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-04
... time, the central bank lowered the discount rate from 11.5 percent to 7.25 percent. This triggered inflation, which Rousseff aggravated by cutting sales taxes and lowering prices on food, gasoline, an ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-03
... and other Central European populists may decide to pursue more aggressive options. If populism had an avatar, it would be the immortal cartoon character Wile E. Coyote, who, in his futile pursuit of t ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-03
... et has no central authority, and no one needs anyone’s permission to connect a computer to the network, build a website, or offer a completely new kind of business model. The financial system, on the ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-03
... by strong central bank policy from the inflationary psychology that caused unemployment, inflation and interest rates to swing wildly in the 1960s and 1970s. It is an outlook that includes an economic ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-03
A female reporter from China Central Television (CCTV), China’s state-owned broadcaster, was detained by British police on Sunday after she reportedly created an uproar and slapped a volunteer at a co ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-02
Hong Kong must establish a strong sense of “one country” and firmly observe it in order to correctly handle the city's relationship with the central government, Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-n ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-02
... in south-central China. Experts from around the country discussed the “urgent” need to build China’s own human rights discourse system. Chinese thinkers argue that the western discourse, including on ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-02
... Shatin-to-Central line, which they said showed poor governance by the administration. Carrying signs and chanting slogans, the protesters, including members from several pro-democracy parties, started ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-02
... ments and central banks of some of America’s largest trading partners to artificially lower the value of their currency, generally with the intention of influencing the exchange rate and trade policy” ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-02
... r. The US central bank expected another rate hike in December, three more next year, and one increase in 2020 as it forecast that the US economy would enjoy at least three more years of growth. Severa ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-28
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has a new message for financial markets: watch the data on jobs, wages and inflation for signals on monetary policy – not the US central bank’s words or forecast ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-28
In a press conference on Sept. 13, European Central Bank (ECB) president Mario Draghi presented a fairly optimistic economic outlook with risks to the downside as well as to the upside. While the Gove ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-28
