... ight soon target people who buy eggs because protesters had pelted officers with eggs during recent clashes. Eventually, police decided to release the student leader without filing charges against him ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-09
... rease the target amount accordingly. If the inflation rate is assumed to be higher, again you need to save more. The ceiling of mandatory provident fund contribution is now set at HK$3,000 a month. Un ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-09
... the 2021 target will add to the pressure on China’s economic managers, who must not allow the country’s growth rate to slow too much, regardless of the downside risks, foreign or domestic. There has ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-08
... its sales target for the new Note series, but said it expected to achieve higher sales volume than the predecessor Note 9 models. Analysts expect similar shipments of about 9.6 million units, with pri ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-08
... as a soft target”. Security officials have warned of a backlash against the move to withdraw Kashmir’s special status. All telephone, television, and internet connections remained severed in Kashmir. ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-08
... ssary and targeted measures against the positive feedback behavior that may occur in the foreign exchange market”. "This is an open acknowledgment by the PBoC that it has extensive experience manipula ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-06
... al equity target in the [United States] by 2020.” HSBC is triple-listed in Hong Kong, New York and London. The current trade war between the US and China, along with the worries over Brexit and the po ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-05
... inflation target) and a longer time horizon. At the same time, it will need to resist pressure from Germany and others who want to use monetary policy to force other governments onto the “right” fisca ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-05
... n obvious target. Liu resigned as the chairman and executive director of Zhongwang in November 2017 for “personal health reasons”. But he still controls 74 percent of the listed firm as the largest sh ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-05
... oint to a target range of 2.00 percent to 2.25 percent, but many traders expected clearer confirmation of forthcoming rate cuts, Reuters noted. US President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly attacked t ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-01
... t did not target “any third nation.” Yet, the two countries chose to patrol the sensitive airspace along the Korean coast, above waters linking Korea and Japan. They must have known that there would b ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-29
... become a target for growing ranks of increasingly emboldened youngsters, angry at China’s tightening grip on the city’s freedoms. Under a “one country, two systems” formula instituted as part of Chin ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-29
... inflation target in January 2012 under former chairman Ben Bernanke, after some other central banks had already done so. Japan followed suit a year later, shortly after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe retur ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-26
Tesla Inc. missed financial targets in the second quarter despite record deliveries of its electric vehicles, adding that the carmaker will break even this quarter, rather than post a profit, Reuters ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-25
... raise its target of half of the US$1 billion total. Osborne wants to head the International Monetary Fund; for this, he needs the support of Beijing, which has, with the US, the largest individual wei ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-25
... does not target any third party.” Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council said later in a statement that Beijing’s “provocative behavior ... seriously violated the peace principle in international laws and ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-24
... 7’s first target is to “strengthen domestic resource mobilization … to improve domestic capacity for tax and other revenue collection.” The question is how. Poor fiscal management means that developin ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-23
... peared to target black-shirted passengers who had been at an anti-government march. Lawmaker Lam, who was wounded in the face and hospitalized, said the police ignored his appeals to them to intervene ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-23
... they were targeting the Liaison Office, the demonstrators said the office is the one that wields the real power in Hong Kong, rather than the local administration. If authorities fail to respond to th ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-22
... choice of target appeared to have been calibrated to test Britain’s response without provoking a bigger crisis. Unlike the Iranian tanker seized a fortnight earlier, which was carrying a valuable carg ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-22
