... 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
... slash the reserve requirement ratio for commercial banks by another 100 basis points, according to a Reuters poll last month. -- Contact us at [email protected] RA/RC ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-10
The US Federal Reserve is set to hike interest rates this year, remarks from Janet Yellen and other Fed officials suggest it’s getting closer to doing so. The Fed funds rate shows there is now an 80 ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-08
... cial said reserve asset managers would need about six months notice to adjust to a change. The renminbi meets the requirements as a significant currency in terms of international trade, but also has t ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-05
In its latest statement, the US Federal Reserve has not given a clear indication as to when it will start raising interest rates, but the market believes the “lift-off” is coming closer. As a result, ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-31
... y Federal Reserve chief Janet Yellen. If that is the case, the Fed could open a “Pandora’s Box”, which could further strengthen the US dollar and trigger a further slide in the prices of commodities. ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-30