... o much to reserve 80 percent of tickets to events at the government venues for sponsors' consignment or for priority booking, Lau promised to study the feasibility of lowering the ratio. Commenting on ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-12
US Federal Reserve officials all agreed that the world's largest economy would firm further and that inflation would rise in the coming months, minutes of the central bank's last policy meeting showed ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-12
The US Federal Reserve on Tuesday proposed new rules that could allow some large banks to reduce the amount of capital they must hold as a cushion against a future economic shock, Reuters reports. The ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-11
... e Federal Reserve started raising interest rate in December 2015. The Fed has introduced five rate hikes so far, and the Fed fund rate has risen to 1.25 to 1.5 percent at present. The market is expect ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-09
... S Federal Reserve. Inflation should only rise slowly and there is little evidence of accelerating wages. Moreover, in the first quarter, inflation was boosted by a 22 percent year-over-year rise in oi ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-06
... its land reserve last year came from acquisitions, which typically cost less than buying from auctions. Despite the perfect record in its core business, Sunac stumbled badly on one deal – the acquisi ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-03
... needs to reserve some of the profit for the purchase of new trains as well as repair and maintenance expenses. Still, Democratic Party lawmaker Lam Cheuk-ting, who is the deputy chairman of the Legis ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-28
The US Federal Reserve raised interest rates and forecast at least two more hikes for 2018, highlighting its growing confidence that tax cuts and government spending will boost the economy and inflati ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-22
... S Federal Reserve starting on Tuesday. The market believes the Fed is set to raise interest rates on Wednesday as Thomson Reuters data shows traders expect a quarter-percentage-point hike to be a cert ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-20
... S Federal Reserve started its QE program in 2009, Chan pointed out. Such massive capital inflow had been propping up Hong Kong dollar, which for a period had been trading close to the higher end of th ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-12
... a fiscal reserve of over HK$1 trillion. The Hong Kong Economic Journal calls the budget a sort of pepper-spraying of tiny goodies to the various sectors of society, and this may explain why Chan got ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-02
... game and reserve the slots you need. Remember that most of these tutors have a portfolio of students with whom they’ve worked for a year or more, who will most likely increase the length of their les ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-02
... untry, we reserve the right to issue a currency in whatever form it is, whether in digital or fiat form.” Plans for possible sovereign cryptocurrencies have gained momentum in recent months, as digita ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-01
The high volatility of recent weeks likely represents a regime shift from the low volatility environment of 2017. Fortunately for equity investors, the US Federal Reserve has been overt in its communi ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-28
... e Federal Reserve should pay more attention to financial institutions. Art Wilmarth of George Washington University Law School has also written persuasively on this point: at US$250 billion, a bank’s ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-27
... e Federal Reserve will raise interest rates in March. And the Bank of England announced on Feb. 7 that UK rates could “be tightened somewhat earlier and by a somewhat greater extent” than had previous ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-26
... al fiscal reserve of S$997.4 billion, including cash holdings, stakes in state-controlled entities, listed firms and development funds. Given the strong financials, the government decided to offer a o ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-22
US stocks finished lower in a choppy session Wednesday on renewed worries over higher interest rates following the release of minutes from the Federal Reserve's January meeting. Investors became nervo ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-22
