... to store surplus funds with it. -- Contact us at [email protected] RC/FL ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-23
... est trade surplus in the world, Chinese asset prices and the renminbi exchange rate will just have to rise. This may be a benign “tail risk” to have. -- Contact us at [email protected] CG ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-22
... ration of surplus rural labor to urban areas, a surplus that will soon be exhausted. This, too, is true. But it ignores the fact that there still is a huge reservoir of urban labor in the informal sec ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-16
... ing trade surplus in recent quarters (due to price cuts in imported commodities) could hedge the potential impact of money outflows. Has the depreciation of the renminbi helped to increase China’s com ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-10
... ong trade surplus would ensure the strength of the renminbi, the report said. Chinese officials have said they have allowed the currency to slide to link it to the global market and not to boost expor ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-08
... l account surplus in 55 years, reaching 209.9 billion yen, according to the Ministry of Finance. This means that visitors spent more in Japan than its nationals spent abroad. The Abe government has ta ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-17
... ople with surplus funds. "Hong Kong people can use the platform to lend to mainlanders, Americans or people in other countries," Htite noted. Dianrong matches borrowers and lenders and takes 10 percen ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-15
... t account surplus during the early 2000s and accumulated a vast stock of foreign reserves – including at least several trillion US dollars’ worth of US Treasury debt. Although this looks impressive on ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-31
... that any surplus income will have to be turned over to the government after the franchise agreement expires. As a matter of fact, the guidelines Lai mentioned in his article only apply to profit-seek ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-28
... accounts surplus has reached US$305.2 billion in the first seven months of this year. This is critical to the supply and demand fundamentals in the foreign exchange market. Beijing has accelerated it ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-17
... a primary-surplus target of 0.5 percent, followed by a 1.75 percent primary surplus in 2017. From 2018 onward, the agreement calls for the government to produce a 3.5 percent primary surplus every yea ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-13
... used “the surplus that they’ve accumulated in global trade and the fact that they’re not accountable to their constituencies”. During his four-day African sojourn, Obama did not explicitly compare Chi ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-04
... ry budget surplus for now. Under a relatively “good bargain”, the creditors would modify interest rates and extend maturities further as the International Monetary Fund now suggests, so that Greece d ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-20
... external surplus is still large at over 4 percent of GDP, with the current account surplus rising again. Together with a stable exchange-rate policy, this surplus will underpin the renminbi in the me ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-17
The United States posted a budget surplus of US$51.8 billion in June, down 27 percent from the same period last year, Reuters reported, citing a statement from the US Treasury Department. The current ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-14
... rd fiscal surplus of HK$4.94 billion in the financial year 1972/73, of which HK$669 million was from buoyant land sales. In the latest fiscal year, the government raked in HK$73.2 billion in land prem ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-06
... will be a surplus of 4,000 secondary one places even if the schools end up with just one fewer student in each class. Tuen Mun and Sha Tin districts have the most vacancies, with 900 and 450, respecti ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-06
... ry budget surplus (excluding interest payments) of 3.5 percent of GDP by 2018. Economists around the world have condemned that target as punitive because aiming for it will inevitably result in a deep ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-30
... t-account surplus growing to 10 percent of GDP in 2008. But such high surpluses are ultimately impossible to sustain. There simply is not enough import demand in the world to absorb ever-growing Chine ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-22
... operating surplus for 2014, helped by initial payments from developers and sales from several completed projects. It made a loss of HK$2.3 billion for the 2013-2014 financial year. URA said it expects ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-17
