... ht be the target of political plots. In July last year, for example, months after the western media reported that Xi had, in effect, become president for life, a story about “shifting political underc ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-15
... 2 percent target, and the US expansion may need a shot in the arm. But as they polled businesses in their districts, Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank President Raphael Bostic and Richmond Federal Reserve ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-12
... unfairly targets American companies,” US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said on Wednesday in a statement announcing the investigation. The move gives Lighthizer up to a year to investigate if ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-11
... nt annual target and to combat a pervasive pessimism among corporations that they see holding back business investment. Lower rates could “cushion the effects” of shocks from the trade war, according ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-11
... ecome the target of hostile efforts. Protesters calling for the complete scrapping of the legislation that would allow extradition to mainland China are now turning their ire to these so-called pro-Be ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-10
... nt’s 2019 target range of 6 to 6.5 percent, reinforcing expectations that more support is needed soon. In a bid to spur more lending, the PBoC has injected huge amounts of liquidity into the financial ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-08
... example, target to increase the positions created by IT industry and outsourcing work to 6.3 million by 2020, 2.5 times of that in 2012; • Convenient transportation and reduced environmental pollutio ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-08
... short of targets agreed with official lenders. The Bank of Greece projects that the 3.5 percent of GDP primary surplus target that excludes debt servicing outlays is likely to be missed this year and ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-08
... inflation target of below but close to 2 percent even when the eurozone economy was booming. And now that it is flagging and vulnerable to China’s slowdown, US President Donald Trump’s trade wars, and ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-05
... , a major target for United States investment, and the ...全文
... the next target on which they can vent their anger, Liao said. On Monday night, radical protesters stormed into the Legco building and went on a rampage, breaking equipment and spraying graffiti, bef ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-03
... inflation targets, notably the Bank of New Zealand and the Bank of Canada, have set a range of 1-3 percent for medium-term inflation. Such an approach seems to make sense for the ECB as well in today’ ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-03
... ountry is targeting R&D expenditure of 2.5 percent of GDP by 2020. Already, Beijing’s great firewall has long kept many US internet firms out of China. The world’s ten largest internet companies a ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-28
... rnment by targeting the police, who are just trying to protect law and order, he said. When police officers come off duty, they are regular members of society, like every other citizen, Lee added, RTH ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-28
... rly below target in the euro area and justify the support of low policy rates. Risks to growth are on the downside and relate to a number of factors such as increasing protectionism and trade tensions ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-28
... an find a target hidden from view by darkness or obstacles. In North Carolina, a missing 11-year-old girl had fallen asleep in a thicket as darkness spread across the land. “It was so dark in the wood ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-27
... the Fed’s target for short-term interest rates. The Fed Board itself sets the interest the Fed pays banks and conducts bank oversight. The Fed, under Powell’s predecessor Janet Yellen, started slowly ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-27
... will not target or single out any party, be it police or protesters, for special attention. This article appeared in the Hong Kong Economic Journal on June 25 Translation by Alan Lee [Chinese version ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-26
... icated to target middle-aged and elderly citizens in an apparent effort to incite animosity between the young and old generations. This article appeared in the Hong Kong Economic Journal on June 25 Tr ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-26
