... e Federal Reserve carried out. The EU just can't compare with the US in this regard. Strategically, the EU is even worse. For example, it was simply shrugged off by Russia throughout the Ukraine crisi ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-08
... S Federal Reserve and unconventional negative-rate monetary policies in Europe and Japan. Each deceleration episode lasted about two months, at which point the correction in equity prices began to rev ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-06
Federal Reserve officials expected at their policy meeting this month that it would “soon be appropriate” to raise short-term interest rates, a signal the U.S. central bank could move in June at its n ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-25
... mable ice reserve is estimated at 16.7 trillion tons of oil equivalent, more than double the combined reserves of traditional fossil fuel including coal, oil, natural gas and shale gas. China alone ha ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-23
... t China's reserve of flammable ice is double its combined reserves of conventional gas and shale gas. The nation's flammable ice reserve will be able to meet its energy needs for nearly 200 years. Chi ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-23
... s Federal Reserve Bank President Neel Kashkari has been skeptical about bitcoin's outlook, noting that blockchain has more potential for being adopted in the future than the digital currency itself. " ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-10
With its blood reserve falling to an all-time low, the Hong Kong Red Cross mounted a publicity campaign to seek more blood donations. Hundreds of thousands of citizens have responded to the call by tr ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-09
Led by the US Federal Reserve, a number of central banks are considering a reduction in the size of their balance sheets. The US Federal Reserve has decided to slash its balance sheet after the Federa ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-09
... S Federal Reserve's decision to shrink its balance sheet, the North Korea crisis and the weaker Hong Kong dollar, that might bring negative impacts, but stock markets have continued to do well. While ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-04
The US Federal Reserve kept interest rates unchanged on Wednesday and downplayed weak first-quarter economic growth while emphasizing the strength of the labor market, Reuters reports. It is a sign it ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-04
... e world’s reserve currency – what economists call the “Triffin dilemma”. By creating an international currency that would be managed by the IMF, member countries sought to underpin and enhance the int ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-25
... S Federal Reserve has now pursued modest interest-rate hikes without triggering an adverse reaction even in emerging markets, which last year were dreading such a move. Against this background, econom ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-24
... currency reserve reached US$386.2 billion as of December. Even the business sector, benefiting from a rigged tax regime, has been suggesting raising the profits tax rate for wealth redistribution. So ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-21
... e Federal Reserve may hike interest rates at least twice more for the rest of 2017. This article appeared in the Hong Kong Economic Journal on April 20 Translation by Julie Zhu with additional reporti ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-20
US equities pulled back as investors feared that the Federal Reserve would start reducing the size of its balance sheet later this year. The Fed’s decision obviously carries a lot of weight in the sto ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-12
... 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
