US President Donald Trump said he was “not thrilled” with the Federal Reserve under his own appointee, Chairman Jerome Powell, for raising interest rates and said the US central bank should do more to ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-21
A Malaysian judge ruled that the trial of two women charged with the murder of the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will continue, adding that the evidence was insufficient to ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-16
China rejected allegations raised by a UN panel that a million Uighurs may be held in internment camps in the restive Xinjiang region, but said that some people underwent re-education after being dece ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-14
Turkey has drafted an economic action plan and will start implementing it on Monday morning to ease investor concerns, Finance Minister Berat Albayrak said on Sunday, after the lira plunged to a new r ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-13
US President Donald Trump’s national security team said Russia is behind “pervasive” attempts to interfere in upcoming US elections, in a rejection of denials of meddling that Russian President Vladim ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-03
Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa, a former spy chief installed after Robert Mugabe’s removal in a coup in November, was elected on Thursday after a poll marred by the deaths of six people in an a ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-03
The administration of US President Donald Trump is working to develop consumer data privacy policies, and the Commerce Department is meeting with big companies like Facebook Inc., Comcast Corp and Alp ...More
EJ Insight2018-07-30
Finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of 20 nations on Sunday called for stepped-up dialogue to prevent trade and geopolitical tensions from hurting growth. Following a two-day meeting ...More
EJ Insight2018-07-23
US President Donald Trump criticized Federal Reserve policy even though most economists believe the highest inflation in seven years and lowest unemployment in 40 years justify recent interest rate ri ...More
EJ Insight2018-07-20
Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. “did not fully disclose facts” about aspects of its US$3.9 billion acquisition of Tribune Media, the US Federal Communications Commission said in an order that referred t ...More
EJ Insight2018-07-20
After conquering the home market, China’s leading mobile payment platforms are pushing their services overseas. Tencent’s WeChat Pay is expanding in the United States, despite the escalating trade fig ...More
EJ Insight2018-07-19
