... t account surplus are also declining, he noted. -- Contact us at [email protected] JH/JP/RC ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-22
... ing their surplus cash, last year. Central banks in Sweden, Denmark and Switzerland have also imposed negative policy rates of between minus 0.25 per cent and minus 0.75 per cent as they battle deflat ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-20
... sult in a surplus of 110 billion yuan. This speculation, however, became the catalyst for a deep correction. Market gains have gone too far over the past month, and the market is under increasing pre ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-06
... a primary surplus of 3 percent of GDP. "The IMF thinks the gap between the two realities is very large right now," FT cited a senior official involved in the talks as saying. Athens, which is resisti ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-05
... sts, when surplus labor from the farm sector dries up and wages rise rapidly. The term refers to the views of Nobel laureate in economics William Arthur Lewis, who in the 1950s argued that a developin ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-05
... t account surplus, which was already a whopping 8 percent of gross domestic product last year. With external surpluses also rising in other countries of the eurozone core, the monetary union’s overal ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-04
... ion trade surplus with Southeast Asia's biggest economy. Brazil is at risk of losing a major military export deal to Indonesia because of the dispute over the executions. Australians Myuran Sukumaran ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-29
... e, to New Surplus International Investment Ltd., which is indirectly controlled by Gao, for HK$1.54 billion (US$199 million) or HK$1.19 per share. The transaction price is unchanged from the stock's c ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-28
... there is surplus in cross-border supply. Onions are sold at 3.5 yuan per kg, six times the normal price in China, while Indian lettuce for Hong Kong fetches 7.8 yuan per kg at the supermarket as comp ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-21
... antage of surplus plot ratio from old residential buildings in order to build large luxury homes, maximizing profit. By law, the URA has the power to seize old residential buildings, effectively accou ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-21
... t account surplus has stood near 7 percent of GDP – bigger than China’s – for two years and is likely to grow even larger, owing to the euro’s recent depreciation. Meanwhile, most other eurozone count ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-20
... , utilize surplus capacity, and help slow the rapid build-up of foreign exchange reserves. Inbound FDI in China rose just 1.7 percent in 2014, the slackest pace since 2012. That weak performance highl ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-16
... nt budget surplus had also varied widely with the actual figure. Given his wrong projections, one can only conclude that he may be not that competent in investment analysis. Tsang's recent comments ca ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-14
... na with a surplus of US$3.1 billion, much smaller than the poll forecast for a US$45.4 billion trade gap. A breakdown of exports and imports by major markets was not yet available on Monday, though ma ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-13
... t-account surpluses by suppressing the value of their currencies. But the US is unlikely to accept such behavior within free-trade zones. Indeed, a bipartisan majority in the US Congress is already de ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-02
... he global surplus of annual output relative to demand will widen to more than 200 million tons -- triple South Korea’s yearly imports -- by 2018. -- Contact us at [email protected] CG/RA ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-20
... s 10-year surplus and by issuing debt. Local carriers Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. (00293.HK) and its subsidiary Hong Kong Dragon Airlines Ltd. have blasted the proposal to impose the financial burden ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-18
... nt-of-GDP surplus by 2020, and maintain that surplus throughout the 2020s. If this was attempted, Japan would be condemned to sustained deflation and recession. Even a modest step in that direction -- ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-17
... taggering surplus. When the government has more money than it needs, preparing a budget is not difficult. In such an advantageous position, Tsang has no need to rack his brain for any austerity measur ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-12
... ord trade surplus of US$109.6 billion in the same period. The decline, totalling US$36.5 billion for the two months, was the largest cumulative two-month drop on record, implying net capital outflows. ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-09
