... 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
... e Federal Reserve removed the uncertainty over interest rates, the renminbi's exchange rate also stabilized, and the A-share market regained some vibrancy. The market is now more optimistic, respondi ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-22
Several studies have shown that every time the US Federal Reserve raised interest rates, the stock market benefited from it. But few studies dealt on how an interest rate hike affects the transaction ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-21
... cological Reserve". Before the disaster, this area was home to 22,000 people in 92 villages, and the land was farmed and exploited for its forest resources. In the days after the accident, the area’s ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-21
China's yuan has seen a giant leap in the efforts to become a global currency and one of the world's reserve currencies. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced on Nov. 30 that the Chinese uni ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-18
... half. The reserve requirement ratio, a blunt instrument used by the central bank to manage liquidity, is set to come down from the current 17.5 percent level. The PBoC uses the timing of RRR cuts to s ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-18
... rates and reserve requirement ratios further next year, or even resort to Chinese-version monetary easing measures. How about the room for further yuan devaluation? The ADXY-XCNY and JPM FX indices ha ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-18
Now that the US Federal Reserve has raised interest rates for the first time in nine years, investors want to know how this tightening cycle might proceed and, more importantly, how markets will react ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-18
Finally, the US Federal Reserve announced a 25 basis point interest rate hike. With the uncertainty eliminated, global stock markets rebounded, and so did the A-share market. The Shanghai Composite In ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-18
... S Federal Reserve – fostering maximum employment and price stability. November’s unemployment rate has dropped to 5 percent while the consumer price index has also booked a modest rise of 2 percent. A ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-18
While the government's pledge earlier this year to increase the supply of new residential units has been expected to ease home prices, the US Federal Reserve's interest rate hike this week could be an ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-18
... e Federal Reserve on the US economy and first published in 2012. The world’s second largest economy lacks the kind of comprehensive data available on developed nations, making it harder for investors ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-18
Most analysts believe that Hong Kong can weather the series of interest rate hikes in the United States in the coming two years just like it did in the last Federal Reserve tightening cycle when rates ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-18
... a Federal Reserve rate hike rather than the city's economic fundamentals. I believe global monetary environment overall will continue to be easy in coming year, providing a safety net for investors. I ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-17
The US Federal Reserve will follow up on Wednesday's rate hike with three more tightening moves in 2016, with the first of those initiatives likely in June, according to a prominent fund manager. "Re ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-17
The US Federal Reserve has raised interest rates for the first time in almost a decade. Fed chairwoman Janet Yellen said the widely telegraphed move will be followed by “gradual” tightening as officia ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-17
