China may need to slash the bank reserve requirement ratio (RRR) by at least another 150 basis points this year to boost lending and support the economy, according to a top Chinese investment bank. In ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-25
... e Federal Reserve has hinted at a September tightening of US benchmark rates after eight years of near-zero interest rates. Monday's rout, which follows weeks of jitters over the extent of China's eco ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-25
... o cut the reserve requirement ratio (RRR) over the weekend. An RRR cut would release several hundred billion yuan but not all of this capital will flow into stock market. The central bank injected liq ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-24
... , lowered reserve requirements repeatedly and expanded localities’ freedom to issue bonds directly (and ordered banks to keep lending to them). In fiscal policy, Beijing acknowledged that the fiscal d ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-24
... en hidden reserve of elderly workers who are experienced, well educated and too energetic to be confined to their home. Recently, the Labor and Welfare Bureau announced a plan to launch a pilot progra ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-24
... ollars in reserve is continuing to take away their welfare entitlements bit by bit sneakily in every possible way? Once the VHIS is implemented, a lot of non-emergent surgery and treatments for chroni ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-24
... the IMF's reserve currency basket will be a gradual process, depending on the pace of the country's financial reform and alignment to international markets, he said. [Chinese version中文版] - Contact us ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-24
... e Federal Reserve will only take into account its own needs when making interest rate decisions. The Fed rate cut in 1994 bolstered Hong Kong's already booming housing market. On the other hand, any ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-22
... e Federal Reserve starts tightening monetary policy in light of the economic uptick. Asian markets would suffer from sell-offs in equities, foreign exchange and bonds. The cycle has been played out ma ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-21
... S Federal Reserve’s rate lift-off. The Fed started winding up its QE3 stimulus program in mid-2014, and this drove the dollar index to surge over 25 percent until the first quarter of this year. The i ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-21
... y Federal Reserve meeting, which cooled expectations that the US central bank will start raising interest rates as early as September. -- Contact us at [email protected] RC ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-21
... rnational reserve currency -- and, in the long term, into a credible global challenger to the US dollar. To this end, China has been campaigning for years to have the renminbi added to the basket of c ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-20
A specific liftoff date for US interest rates is nowhere in sight four weeks before the Federal Reserve meets to consider the matter. Fed officials left a launch date vague at their last policy meeti ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-20
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has indicated that China's renminbi won't be added to the fund's basket of reserve currencies for at least a year. The IMF's executive board on Wednesday approved ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-20
... e and the reserve requirement ratio for banks in a bid to cap the real interest rate rally. Proper devaluation of the renminbi will alleviate the pressure on monetary policy. Second, the move will al ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-17
... ls of its reserve requirement ratio for banks and real interest rates, he said. Nonetheless, the Chinese stock markets, including A and H shares, are still under deleveraging pressure, which is not li ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-17
... e Federal Reserve's rate hike schedule. US-listed Chinese companies have suffered from massive sell-offs following the yuan decline. The Hong Kong market also reacted dramatically. By contrast, the ma ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-14
... S Federal Reserve began winding up QE in late 2014. Capital flight has speeded up in China given gloomy economic outlook. Foreign funds have been flowing out of China since mid-2014, as indicated by t ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-13
... s and the reserve requirement ratio, weaken the renminbi or widen its trading band. Beijing is ramping up support for traditional industries and pressing ahead with reform and industrial consolidation ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-12
... e Federal Reserve halted quantitative easing. That perhaps explains why almost all developers are taking advantage of this golden window to cash out. Jacinto Tong, a property bear who earlier predicte ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-10
