... i Fong in Central quite often to meet up with friends during the incubation period, so the CHP is now launching contact tracing. The school where she works, meanwhile, claimed that the infected employ ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-19
... European Central Bank step in to prevent the last domino – member-state governments – from falling. Because they have no choice but to support failing companies, illiquid banks, and struggling househ ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-19
... ments and central banks have to tackle the economic consequences of this health crisis also become less effective the longer policymakers dither. A looming credit crunch was evident even before the CO ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-19
The European Central Bank (ECB) launched a 750 billion euro (US$820 billion) emergency bond purchase scheme after an unscheduled meeting on Wednesday, aiming to stem a spiraling economic and financial ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-19
... apital of central Hubei province where the flu-like disease surfaced in humans late last year. The capital Beijing accounted for three of the imported new cases, down from nine a day earlier. Shanghai ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-18
... tbreak in central China’s Wuhan demonstrated the run on medical resources is sometimes more dangerous than the virus itself, as those with severe infections might not be able to receive timely treatme ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-18
... ng global central banks in combating the widening economic fallout from the coronavirus outbreak. Economy Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura has said tax cuts could be among steps the government will take t ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-18
... inancing. Central banks from Japan to India have pledged to conduct dollar funding operations in the past week to ease funding constraints. South Korea's Finance Minister Hong Nam-ki on Wednesday said ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-18
... orts. The central bank announced in the morning that it will reopen the so-called Commercial Paper Funding Facility to underwrite the short-term loans that companies often use to pay for their operati ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-18
... after the central bank relaunched a financial crisis-era purchase of short-term corporate debt. Mnuchin said it may get to a point where shortening market trading hours would be needed, but that the ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-18
... and other central banks slashed interest rates. US President Donald Trump, after earlier insisting that the disease was under control, is now saying that the situation is bad and the outbreak could la ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-17
The Bank of Japan (BOJ) eased monetary policy on Monday by pledging to buy risky assets such as exchange-traded funds (ETF) at double the current pace, joining global central banks in combating the wi ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-16
... nology, a central command center, a single-payer health care system, mandatory quarantine and quick decision-making. This is despite the fact that Beijing has excluded Taiwan from the World Health Org ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-16
... lights to central China's Hubei province to bring back Hong Kong people stranded there, Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Patrick Nip Tak-kuen said. The flights are expected to carry 5 ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-16
... European Central Bank, which took its own steps last week, has called on euro zone governments to mount an ambitious and coordinated fiscal response. Individually, Germany has announced the most ambi ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-16
... r foreign central banks, the Fed slashed benchmark rates to a target range of zero to 0.25 percent and pledged hundreds of billions of dollars in asset purchases, Reuters reports. In a news conference ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-16
... with the central government is at an all-time high, an ...全文
今日信報時事評論Brian Wong2020年03月14日
... at the US central bank's regular policy meeting next week. The expectations are that policymakers will trim the benchmark rate by another half a percentage point, matching the size of the unscheduled ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-13
... apital of central China's Hubei province, recorded the five new confirmed cases on Thursday, the National Health Commission said, down from eight cases the previous day. The commission said on Thursda ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-13
