... e Federal Reserve to deliver an interest rate cut. At the same time, Alibaba’s secondary listing in Hong Kong has drawn liquidity from the market, leading to a rise in HIBOR. That has forced many inve ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-26
Federal Reserve officials pushed back on market expectations and presidential pressure for the central bank to deliver a significant US interest rate cut of half a percentage point as soon as its next ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-26
... S Federal Reserve would not counteract the effects of such developments. US multinationals would be forced to curtail their share buybacks, which have soared in recent years, exceeding US$806 billion ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-25
... S Federal Reserve has recently hinted that it could take up interest rate cuts. Is that a signal that the economy will head for recession? Will trade war drag the American economy down? Are equities t ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-25
... cked by a reserve of real assets, to prevent it from being volatile. A basket of low-volatility assets, such as bank deposits and short-term government securities “in currencies from stable and reputa ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-21
The US Federal Reserve on Wednesday expressed concern about growing global and domestic economic risks and hinted that it could act soon to cut interest rates. Following a policy meeting, where the c ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-20
... S Federal Reserve chairman’s recent congressional testimony and has even entered the vernacular of US presidential candidates. While not always called MMT, the themes underpinning the idea are similar ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-14
... e Federal Reserve purchases, and the dollar (DXY Index) at a conveniently strong level, adding very solid employment level, wages, and economic growth. The US dollar strengthened its position as the w ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-14
Investors began 2019 cheering the global rally in risk assets that followed a dramatic late-2018 market plunge. The tough fourth quarter caused the US Federal Reserve to stop raising interest rates de ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-13
... rates or reserve ratio requirements, to counter “downside risks” if trade tensions escalate. Further cuts in banks’ reserve requirement ratios (RRR) were already expected this year, especially after ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-13
US consumer prices barely rose in May, pointing to moderate inflation that together with a slowing economy increased pressure on the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates this year, Reuters reports. B ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-13
... e Federal Reserve will cut rates twice this year. Some analysts point out that Sino-US trade tensions will push up consumer prices in the United States and rising inflation could force the Fed to hike ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-06
... e Federal Reserve to cut rates twice this year, a major change from its previous forecast that rates will stay on hold until the end of 2020. Diverted trade flows In India, where growth depends largel ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-03
... s hold as reserves and fiscal spending. The downbeat data reflects insufficient demand that has become a “more prominent problem” and adds urgency for the government to intervene, Zhang Liqun, an anal ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-31
... a global reserve currency. The euro is only used in 31 percent of global transactions, while the US dollar is used in 88 percent, according to the Bank Of International Settlements (the total sum of ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-31
