The United States Federal Reserve is unlikely to raise interest rates when its policy-setting committee meets this week. Also, the possibility of a December liftoff is small, the Hong Kong Economic Jo ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-27
... e and the reserve requirement ratio (RRR) on Friday. According to estimates, the move will release 700 billion to 900 billion yuan (US$110-141 billion) capital into the market. China’s economic data s ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-26
... S Federal Reserve to resume its interest rate hike cycle in the coming months, although he is not certain how the market will react to it. The more the uncertainties, the higher the market volatility, ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-26
International Monetary Fund (IMF) representatives have given China strong signals that the yuan is likely to soon join the fund’s basket of reserve currencies, known as Special Drawing Rights, accordi ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-26
... a global reserve currency. The Chinese currency has already become the world’s fourth-most used payment currency and second-most used currency in trade finance. The "one belt, one road" initiative of ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-24
The United States has released several disappointing economic data, which, together with dovish comments by Federal Reserve officials, led to a notable weakening of the US dollar in recent days. Commo ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-24
... S Federal Reserve will raise interest rates soon. While “jumping on the bandwagon” is no good, finding reasons to support their conclusions is also wrong. Several months ago, nearly half of the Americ ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-23
... prise its reserve asset, the Special Drawing Right, would enhance the currency’s international position further. With the right approach, the 13th Five-Year Plan can bring about significant improvemen ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-23
... S Federal Reserve to hold its rate hike until the middle of next year, and the delay will benefit Asian currencies. As concerns over capital outflow subside, China will have more room to lower its int ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-20
... 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
