... estors or central banks – are far more telling. For decades, no currency has been more widely used than the dollar. Owing to its dominance, the US has long enjoyed what former French President Valéry ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-23
... made by a central bank official on Tuesday that China would keep liquidity reasonably ample and offer more help to companies having trouble obtaining financing. The State Council also called for const ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-23
... of the US central bank’s last policy meeting. The Fed, which released the readout from its July 31-Aug. 1 meeting on Wednesday, has been raising rates gradually since 2015 and is now concerned the eco ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-23
... ion was a central part of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s reform drive aimed at restructuring the kingdom’s economy and reducing its dependence on oil revenue. The prince announced the plan to sell ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-23
... e EU. The central bank believes that wage pressures are building as slack is absorbed. Yet, it is hard to see this in the data. Real income growth remains close to zero. And the pace of household spen ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-22
... , China's central bank said in a statement issued at a briefing in Beijing. The news conference came after a spate of weaker readings from China's economy in recent months, a sharp drop in the yuan ag ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-22
... ations in Central America and the Pacific. Panama ditched Taiwan for China in 2017, and Burkina Faso and the Dominican Republic followed early this year. The United States keeps unofficial relations w ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-22
... eung Chau-Central route, has stepped up its anti-mosquito measures, including installing mosquito zappers at piers and aboard its vessels. Acting Secretary for Food and Health Dr. Chui Tak-yi said aft ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-21
In China, most of the news content is produced by state-owned media companies such as China Central Television, People’s Daily and Xinhua News Agency. The private sector can only participate in the ne ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-21
... ations in Central America and the Pacific like Belize and Nauru. Speaking in Taipei, President Tsai Ing-wen said Taiwan will not bow to pressure, describing the El Salvador move as further evidence of ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-21
... ed by the central government. China vowed last week to keep debt levels under control even as it rolls out new economic stimulus measures to offset the impact of trade frictions with the United States ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-21
... er in the central city of Valencia, complaining of chronically dysfunctional public services. “There’s no money, there’s no water, there’s no electricity – there’s nothing.” After a decade-long oil bo ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-21
US President Donald Trump said he was “not thrilled” with the Federal Reserve under his own appointee, Chairman Jerome Powell, for raising interest rates and said the US central bank should do more to ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-21
... h through central London that attracted 100,000 people, including Members of Parliament from three parties. In an editorial on July 24, the Independent newspaper called for a second referendum. Last S ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-20
... sprawling central city of Wuhan, home to 11 million people, while jewelry brand Chaumet opened a store in the city of Wuxi, outside Shanghai. Hermes is launching a store in Xi’an in September. Even so ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-20
... ainst the central government means the work has to be done, only that it must be done at the right time under a conducive environment, otherwise it will end up being an empty promise, she said. Pressu ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-17
... go. Major central banks, such as those in the United States, Europe, the United Kingdom and Japan, launched various sorts of quantitative easing (QE) measures in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-17
... ures, the central bank raised the benchmark rate to 6.25 percent in June and further to 6.5 percent in August despite still soft industrial credit growth. Meanwhile, the market has been very quick to ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-17
... ffect the central nervous system if one breathes air contaminated with toluene over an extended period of time. However, the concentration of toluene in the samples was not high. An adult will have to ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-16
... Vietnam’s central bank said on Wednesday it has asked banks to tighten lending to projects deemed environmentally unfriendly. It said banks must have strategies for environmental risk management by 20 ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-16
