Global equity markets posted a nearly 4 percent drop last year as a result of uncertainty about the timing of the US Federal Reserve's liftoff in interest rates, slower growth in emerging economies an ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-11
The US Federal Reserve focused on improvements in the US labor market most of the time last year. It hinted that a liftoff in rates would not come until inflation rose above 2 percent. However, the ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-09
... e Federal Reserve officials have hinted that rate hikes would speed up this year, and that would weigh on equity markets in the United States and Hong Kong. By contrast, markets in Europe and Japan ar ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-05
... S Federal Reserve has started it policy tightening cycle, but Europe is further loosening its monetary stance. Nonetheless, Li reckons Hong Kong will benefit by taking up a crucial role in mainland Ch ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-05
... in banks' reserve requirements and other stimulus in 2016 as the economy has been unusually slow to respond to a year-long flurry of support measures, suggesting it is facing deeper-rooted cyclical an ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-04
... S Federal Reserve's liftoff. I believe global investors will switch to overweighting European equities and underweighting US stocks next year. Tenth, there has been a boom in global mergers and acquis ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-31
... duced the reserve requirement ratio for banks four times during the year. Beijing has set the annual GDP growth target at 6.5 percent for the next five years, compared with 8 percent, 7.5 percent and ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-31
... e Federal Reserve has started raising interest rates, the central banks of Europe, Japan, the United Kingdom and China are maintaining a loose monetary policy. However, the impact of quantitative easi ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-31
... rge forex reserves, like Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, have been relatively more resilient to the oil price slide. However, nations like Venezuela are on the brink of bankruptcy. The second potential black ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-30
... e Federal Reserve raised borrowing costs for the first time in a decade, Bloomberg reports. Prospects of faster economic growth and robust remittances from overseas workers will support the Southeast ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-30
We're breaking down 2015 into 14 major financial events. 1. Global equity market turmoil The global equity market caught the year's last upswing after the Federal Reserve ended monetary easing. The ma ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-29
... e Federal Reserve committed to a gradual pace of tightening, Bloomberg said. The currency will appreciate about 5 percent to US$1.05 per euro by the third quarter of 2016, according to a Bloomberg sur ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-29
... f foreign reserves and low level of foreign debt, capital outflow may continue from the country as the US has begun to raise its interest rates. Facing a slowing economy, China needs a relatively inde ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-25
... ry Fund's reserve currency basket. Ultimately, the expat exodus could be due less to pollution and more to the increasing costs of maintaining an expat family in Beijing -- and to the growing talent p ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-25
... rate and reserve requirement ratio are on the way. The loose monetary policy will support the stock market. With the transformation of the export and manufacturing-led economy into one driven by dome ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-25
... e Federal Reserve announced the interest rate liftoff last week, world currencies have weakened. The won has lost nearly 7.7 percent against the US dollar this year and 5.3 percent against the Japanes ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-25
While the US Federal Reserve's interest rate hike is within market expectation, in terms of scale and timing, the policy decisions by the European and Japanese central banks are somewhat surprising, g ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-24
... an to its reserve currency basket. Chinese officials have said the reserve-currency status could lead to greater foreign demand for the yuan. Extending the trading hours could help bring in more parti ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-24
Democratic US presidential candidate Bernie Sanders lambasted the US Federal Reserve as an institution that has been "hijacked by the very bankers it regulates" and called for a ban on bank executives ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-24
... nd banks' reserve requirement ratio were cut several times this year. Before that, however, deflation could drag on the stock market. Destocking will help defuse systemic risk but if home prices fall, ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-23
