... y Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell has even encouraged the markets to speculate on a possible reversal of the central bank policy stance. If the Fed does slow down its interest rate increases as ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-14
... S Federal Reserve, know such a situation cannot be sustainable in the long term; indeed, this had always been termed an “unconventional” policy. If rates have been rising over the past two years, it’s ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-13
... e Federal Reserve Bank of New York, showed that the overall debt shouldered by Americans edged up to a record US$13.5 trillion in the fourth quarter of 2018. It has risen consistently since 2013, when ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-13
... ut banks’ reserve requirement ratios five times since January last year, banks would rather use this freed-up liquidity to buy “bonds at any cost” than give out loans, said a bank executive at the fin ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-13
... needs to reserve room for people using birthday concessions or group tickets. – Contact us at [email protected] TL/JC/CG ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-08
... S Federal Reserve demonstrated in the early 1930s. Nor are such asset purchases illegal, as some insisted. The ECB, like the Fed and the Bank of Japan (BOJ), is not allowed to buy government bonds in ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-01
The US Federal Reserve on Wednesday dropped its pledge of "further gradual increases" in interest rates, and said it will be "patient" before making any further moves. Following a two-day policy meeti ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-31
... nment has reserved a one-off allocation worth HK$500 million, similar to a move made last year for the same purpose. The reserve of HK$500 was clearly a response to the mounting dissatisfaction in the ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-30
... mandatory reserve ratio for banks four times over the last year, to maintain appropriate liquidity. As part of its negotiations with the US, China is also moving to open its markets further. But there ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-30
... nd global reserve currency. Moreover, the desire to be admitted to the club led to favorable reforms in many aspiring member countries, particularly the Central and Eastern European countries that lat ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-28
... a marine reserve in 2010 in an attempt to permanently deny anyone other than military personnel access to the area. In 2017, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution, under which the s ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-25
... e Federal Reserve launched its quantitative easing (QE) program in 2008, and are hence in a strong position. Meanwhile, the low-rate environment is likely to stay given that the Fed has slowed its pac ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-22
... S Federal Reserve Bank to signal a pause in its interest rate hike cycle, as investors fret about increasing weak signs in China and the fallout from Sino-US trade frictions. Data released on Monday s ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-22
... targeted reserve requirement cuts and the targeted medium-term loan facility, to encourage banks to lend to smaller companies, he said. Cash injections by the PBoC ahead of the Lunar New Year holida ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-21
... duced the reserve requirement ratio four times over the last 12 months. The central bank also used medium-term lending facility and repo programs to inject 5 trillion yuan (US$738.1 billion) worth of ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-17
... S Federal Reserve in 2019. This would be problematic, but it would mainly affect short-term real interest rates, and in principle could be reversed in time. The far more serious risk is a shock to ve ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-14
... exchange reserves. It’s not improper for the Chinese central bank to hold domestic equities to help stabilize the market.” He suggested that the PBoC can hold 1.58 trillion yuan to 1.78 trillion yua ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-11
... e Federal Reserve has begun to shrink its balance sheet since the fourth quarter of 2017, and the amount of its debt purchase program increased from US$10 billion to US$50 billion in the last quarter ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-11
Several Federal Reserve policymakers said last month they could be patient about future interest rate increases, and a few did not support the central bank’s rate increase that month, Reuters reports, ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-10
The People’s Bank of China has announced a 1 percentage point cut in banks'reserve requirement ratio, and the market has responded more positively than it did to multiple cuts last year. More importan ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-09
