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
... e Federal Reserve and individual states. Much of the concern on Capitol Hill is focused on speculative trading and investing in cryptocurrencies, leading some lawmakers to push for digital assets to b ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-20
... S Federal Reserve. As a result, bond yields have risen in recent months, with the rise accelerating since the beginning of the year. From around a 2.40 percent yield in early January, US 10-year Treas ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-14
... s Federal Reserve president James Bullard on Tuesday said that the strong US labor market does not mean that higher inflation is just around the corner. A more reasonable explanation is that the US ma ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-09
... e Federal Reserve will raise benchmark interest rates at a faster pace than expected this year. -- Contact us at [email protected] CG/RC ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-08
... S Federal Reserve has a new leadership. The new Fed chief Jerome Powell, who succeeded Janet Yellen this month, is expected to continue Yellen’s stance of gradual tightening. Still, some investors reg ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-06
Jerome Powell took office as the new Federal Reserve chairman on Monday. And a global currency war could be just around the corner. Since the beginning of the year, the US dollar index has basically e ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-06
... e Federal Reserve will raise rates at a faster pace than expected. “The market has had an incredible run,” said Michael O’Rourke, chief market strategist at JonesTrading in Greenwich, Connecticut. “We ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-06
