A fear of negative interest rates kept the US Federal Reserve from raising rates earlier than some policymakers had hoped, according to Stanley Fischer, the central bank's former vice chairman. "The p ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-05
... the last federal election when the White House was not at stake. On Sunday Trump and former US president Barack Obama made dueling election appearances, offering sharply different views on the countr ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-05
... spite the Federal reserve normalization. What will the next crisis look like? Nothing like the last one, in my opinion. Contagion is much more difficult because there have been some lessons learnt fro ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-02
... ional for federal troops to intervene in any domestic law enforcement operation. The 5,200 US troops to be sent to the US-Mexico border can only, in theory, fulfill a subsidiary role and assist the st ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-02
... r 2017 in federal court in California, accusing them of secret infringement of intellectual property related to its DRAM chips after prosecutors in Taiwan charged two Micron employees with stealing tr ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-02
... es Act, a federal law targeting official bribery abroad. At least six countries, including Malaysia, the United States and Switzerland, have been investigating alleged thefts from 1MDB. The 1MDB inves ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-02
... lone, the federal government will likely borrow more than USD 1 trillion in fiscal year 2018 and businesses will need to refinance about US$4 trillion of bonds, almost all of them at higher interest r ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-01
... ers cited federal prosecutors as saying. According to an indictment unsealed on Tuesday, prosecutors noted that at the time of the intrusions, a Chinese-state owned aerospace firm was working to devel ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-31
... ehalf. US federal prosecutors in Alexandria, Virginia, have maintained a long-running grand jury investigation into WikiLeaks, which according to one source includes a probe into leaks of Central Inte ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-30
... r. At the federal election in 2021, I will not stand,” she added. The move sets in motion the process for the CDU to settle on and prepare Merkel’s successor. The euro fell briefly and German governme ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-30
... es of the Federal Reserve Board and University of Nottingham’s Giammario Impullitti, we find that protectionist policies discourage innovation by domestic companies, and thereby hamper growth. When yo ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-29
... cases in federal court in San Diego. Apple has disputed the amount of royalties that it owes to Qualcomm. Apple has argued that Qualcomm is forcing it to pay for the same patents twice, once when App ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-29
... on of the federal government’s budget deficit. “We are going to think in terms of more Brazil and less Brasilia,” he said, referring to the nation’s capital. The president-elect said he would shift Br ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-29
... mail. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is examining whether Tesla misstated information about the production of its Model 3 sedans and misled investors about its business going back to early 2017, ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-29
... 7, the US Federal Communications Commission adopted the “Wireless Emergency Alerts” system, which enables government agencies and other institutions to send emergency alerts to mobile phone users in t ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-25
... Biden, a federal official told Reuters late on Wednesday. None of the eight packages detonated, and nobody was hurt. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. But news of the bomb threats heigh ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-25
Apple chief executive Tim Cook said customer data is being “weaponized with military efficiency” by companies to increase profit and called for a federal privacy law in the United States, Reuters repo ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-25
... Germany's Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) was quoted as saying that Huawei, China's largest telecoms equipment maker, will open the lab on Nov. 16 in Bonn, where the BSI and other key re ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-24
... then, the federal fund rate was at 5.25 percent rather than 2.25 percent. If the PCE index maintains its current level, US inflation is likely to pick up. The tax cut the Trump administration introduc ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-23
... . And the Federal Reserve's normalization pace is unlikely to be adequate to get interest rates high enough before the next recession. Besides, the European Union and Japan are still mired in zero rat ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-19
