... rnational reserve currency. Such misguided reasoning is precisely what led to a generation of unnecessarily slow growth in Japan. It could happen again in China. Copyright: Project Syndicate -- Contac ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-20
... on of the reserve requirement ratio for banks. This article appeared in the Hong Kong Economic Journal on Oct. 19. Translation by Julie Zhu [Chinese version中文版] -- Contact us at [email protected] JZ/JP ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-19
... h Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew during his visit to the United States recently. Yellen has assured the Hong Kong official that global factors, including China's ec ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-19
... S Federal Reserve is around the corner. Many emerging countries have spent too much amid massive inflows of low-cost US dollars. Some emerging economies are likely to suffer from an economic recession ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-17
When Federal Reserve chief Janet Yellen said in May that the US economy was continuing to improve, she set off market forecasts for an autumn rate hike. “It will be appropriate at some point this year ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-17
... S Federal Reserve expressed its intention to raise interest rates. Some conservative investors decided to follow Warren Buffett's strategy of long-term investment. That’s why many individual investors ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-17
... cuts and reserve requirement ratio reductions in the first half. The government has approved more infrastructure projects to create investment opportunities for companies, apart from extending them m ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-16
I've grown tired of the endless discussion about when the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates, and of seeing news headlines with words like “global recession” and “crisis in emerging markets”. I ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-15
... S Federal Reserve continued its QE scheme into the second year of the US presidential cycle, that is, from October 2013 to September 2014. That propped up the stock market and reversed the usual downt ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-15
... e Federal Reserve will delay raising interest rates until next year. Gold declines when rates rise because the metal doesn’t pay yields, unlike competing assets, the news agency said. The odds of a ra ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-15
Lackluster September US retail sales and a fall in producer prices to an eight-month low have raised further doubts about whether the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates this year. The weak repo ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-15
... h Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen to get some clues on the pace of the Fed's expected rate-hike cycle. Tsang was in Lima over the weekend to attend the annual meetings of the International Mon ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-12
US Federal Reserve policymakers are still likely to raise interest rates this year, but that is “an expectation, not a commitment”, Fed vice chairman Stanley Fischer said. Things could change if the g ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-12
... S Federal Reserve's potential rate hike in mid-September; (3) in the time window when China’s increasing trade surplus in recent quarters (due to price cuts in imported commodities) could hedge the po ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-10
The US Federal Reserve did not kick off a series of interest rate hikes at its September meeting as some expected. The decision has been criticized by Fed staff and market participants for sending a ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-10
Concern that inflation could remain stuck at exceptionally low levels was the reason why US Federal Reserve officials decided to hold off on a rate hike at their policy meeting last month, according t ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-09
... o recruit reserve pilots to prevent a manpower shortage in the future. Captain Michael Chan, controller of GFS, said the agency will speed up pilot training to prepare for the expected retirement wave ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-08
The US Federal Reserve's recent decision to hold off on an interest rate hike was reasonable, the central bank's former chairman Ben Bernanke said on Wednesday. In an interview with The Wall Street Jo ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-08
... e Federal Reserve may maintain zero interest rates longer than expected. These big investors have come back to the fray, hoping for a rebound in the last quarter after staying away in the previous qua ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-07
... said they reserve the right to cancel applications with false or incomplete information. Some previous participants cheated their way into the race by photocopying entry numbers. Also, some people too ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-07
