... overnment reserve and abundant public resources, we could have in fact done substantially better with regard to the education sector. All it takes is good planning, a new mindset, and above all, the e ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-10
... effort to reserve sufficient school places for expatriate families in Hong Kong. However, the percentage of local students in international schools has been on the rise, going up from 15.9 percent in ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-06
... S Federal Reserve is poised to raise interest rates further this year and next year. The next Fed chairman may even lean toward tightening. Meanwhile, Zhou Xiaochuan, China’s central bank governor, ha ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-05
Richmond Federal Reserve president Jeffrey Lacker abruptly left the US central bank on Tuesday after admitting that a conversation he had with a Wall Street analyst in 2012 may have disclosed confiden ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-05
... S Federal Reserve launched monetary easing measures after the 2008 financial crisis. As a result, Hong Kong’s monetary base surged 340 percent as of late 2015, while that of the United States was up 3 ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-30
... S Federal Reserve announced a rate hike earlier this month. The People’s Bank of China has raised the reverse repo and the medium-term lending facility rates by 10 basis points each. It marked the sec ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-24
US prosecutors are building cases that would accuse North Korea of directing the theft of US$81 million from the Bangladesh central bank's account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York last year, th ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-23
... a capital reserve by the size of trillion dollars; the HKMA never let the local asset management firms take part, stifling the local industry’s development. Despite using renowned and international br ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-21
As tourists continue to swarm into Cape d'Aguilar, Hong Kong's only Marine Reserve, staff at a research center in the area are getting vexed with trespassers and calling on authorities to consider put ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-20
Hong Kong equities surged along with global markets after the US Federal Reserve announced a 25 basis points rate hike and kept its plan for two more rate increments within this year. Investors took c ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-17
The US Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate for the second time in three months amid increased confidence over the prospects of the world's largest economy. In a widely expected move, th ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-16
The US is considering a deployment of up to 1,000 American soldiers to Kuwait to serve as a reserve force in the fight against Islamic State as US-backed fighters accelerate the offensive in Syria and ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-09
... needs to reserve some votes to back up Woo, just in case. Yet it turns out Woo didn't even need Beijing's behind-the-scene maneuver to secure his candidacy. In fact Beijing is adjusting its policy on ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-08
... S Federal Reserve may respond to such an increase by hiking its policy rate, a move that would ultimately lead to a rise in long-term interest rates and place further upward pressure on the dollar’s e ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-06
... y Federal Reserve officials who hinted at an interest rate hike this month. A March rate hike would be sooner than many investors expected and make it more expensive to borrow money to buy stocks but ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-02
Federal Reserve officials expect another hike in the US benchmark interest rate "fairly soon" due to an improving economy and anticipated inflationary pressures. According to minutes released Wednesda ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-23
... e Federal Reserve will pursue or even expedite the normalization of US interest rates. “Economic growth in Europe is still constrained by its structural debts. This, together with the Brexit developme ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-22
... tickets, reserve a table or split bills via peer-to-peer transfers -- then for sure we are no stranger to the high-pitched, strident sound of rejection when our Octopus has insufficient credit, as yo ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-20
US Federal Reserve chief Janet Yellen said on Tuesday that it’s “unwise“ to wait too long to raise interest rates as economic growth continues and inflation rises. Therefore, the Fed might accelerate ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-16
