China can use reserve requirements and interest rates to support economic growth, Premier Li Keqiang said on Friday, promising broad policy steps to prevent a sharper slowdown for the world’s second-b ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-15
... ut banks’ reserve requirements five times over the last year, most recently in January, and more reductions are expected from the coming quarter to free up more funds for lending. Regulators have orde ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-14
... S Federal Reserve Board hiked rates 17 times, raising its policy rate from 1 percent to 5.25 percent. Between 2005 and 2008, the European Central Bank raised rates from 2 percent to 4.25 percent. This ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-13
... e Federal Reserve has taken a more dovish stance, the market has moderated its expectation for further rate increases. In fact, as of this writing, the market is only pricing in a 10 percent probabili ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-13
... oC to cut reserve requirement ratios (RRRs), although the amount of room is less compared with a few years ago, Yi said. The PBoC has cut the amount of cash that commercial banks need to set aside as ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-11
... S Federal Reserve and other central banks around the world are also holding back on rate hikes. It underlined how a global trade war, Brexit uncertainty and simmering debt concerns in Italy are taking ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-08
... S Federal Reserve introduced a money-printing program called quantitative easing (QE). After several years of monetary stimulus, the US economy started to recover and the unemployment rate began to fa ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-06
... r Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen is coming to Hong Kong this month to speak at the Credit Suisse Asian Investment Conference. The ex-central bank chief, who is currently a Distinguished Fell ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-05
... ts in the reserve requirement ratio for smaller and medium-sized banks with an aim to boost lending to small companies by large banks by more than 30 percent, Li said. Addressing one of the biggest ch ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-05
... e Federal Reserve changed its tone on the number of rate hikes, the ECB announced that it would be much more accommodative and the central bank of China introduced the largest injection of liquidity i ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-05
Just as the US Federal Reserve seems to have beaten back blistering tweets from President Donald Trump, the next battle for central bank independence is already unfolding. And this one could potential ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-05
US President Donald Trump renewed criticism of the Federal Reserve and said the central bank’s tight monetary policy is contributing to a strong dollar and hurting America's competitiveness, Reuters r ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-04
... e Housing Reserve, a fund set up back in 2014 by the previous administration to finance a 10-year program for public housing and other related infrastructure, back into the government’s fiscal reserve ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-01
The US Federal Reserve will stop shrinking its US$4 trillion balance sheet later this year, the central bank's chairman Jerome Powell said on Wednesday. “We’ve worked out, I think, the framework of a ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-28
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell told US lawmakers the US central bank is in “no rush to make a judgment” about further changes to interest rates, Reuters reports. In two hours of testimony to t ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-27
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The US Federal Reserve has been reviewing its interest rate and monetary policy against the backdrop of turbulent global politics and wild moves in the stock market in the fourth quarter of last year. ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-26
... te, urban reserve; and the performance of non-emergency 3-1-1 hotline, etc. In this way, it is easy to discern which area has improved and which has not yet met the standard. Through this third-tier p ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-25
... al fiscal reserve of S$997.4 billion if cash, state-owned equity, listed stocks and development funds are included. With such a deep pocket, the handout is not surprising at all. Singaporeans with ass ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-22
