... S Federal Reserve will hike interest rates this year. I pointed out in last year's second half that a rate increase will be postponed until late this year or even early next year. Instead, the Fed cou ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-21
US Federal Reserve officials believed that it might be too early to raise interest rates in June as some temporary factors were holding the economy back, minutes of an April policy meeting showed. Acc ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-21
The Federal Reserve is ready to take steps to ensure financial stability after officials cited high-speed trading and clearing-house operatios as potential threats. Chairman Janet Yellen said regulato ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-20
... rnational reserve asset created by the IMF in 1969 to supplement its member countries' official reserves. It consists of the US dollar, euro, Japanese yen and pound sterling. Liao said only five of 40 ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-19
... S Federal Reserve is critical for the price movements of various asset classes. The US labor market has shown strong recovery, which makes the first rate hike very likely to be this summer. However, t ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-18
... S Federal Reserve wound up its tapering. The move has accelerated the price correction on commodities -- oil, in particular -- which in turn fueled deflation risk across the world. And the break-even ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-14
... -rate and reserve requirement ratio cuts, as well as a debt swap program, in a bid to pump more liquidity into the market to offset deflationary risk. Lower rates and increased liquidity are expected ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-13
... the water reserve facility. Reporters found that public toilets on the island have no water supply for flushing and hand washing and are smelly and unhygienic. A 70-year-old villager surnamed Wong sai ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-13
... ts in the reserve requirement ratio (RRR), as the real interest rate still stands much higher than the historical moving average. Bank of America Merrill Lynch also expects the rate to be cut by anoth ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-11
... ormalized reserve requirement ratio cuts and pledge supplementary lending to cap interest rates. Apart from the rate cut, the central bank also widened the deposit-rate ceiling to 150 percent from the ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-11
... k cut the reserve requirement ratio (RRR) by 100 basis points on April 19, in a sign that Beijing will roll out more aggressive monetary easing measures to counter deflation and capital outflow pressu ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-11
... while her reserve chute only partially opened, enough to slow her descent. The experienced parachutist "very nearly lost her life" in what should have been a routine jump, BBC cited a police officer a ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-11
... elax bank reserve requirements and cut rates again in the coming months to counter the headwinds facing the world's second-largest economy. The People's Bank of China (PBoC) said on its website Sunday ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-11
US Federal Reserve chief Janet Yellen warned Wednesday of potential dangers from high equity valuations but said that risks to financial stability remained generally in check. "I would highlight that ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-07
... t it will reserve the right to pursue the matter in a court of law. According to the agreement, the government can seek for compensation from MTR for any violations, but the amount is capped at HK$4.5 ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-06
... duced the reserve requirement ratio (RRR) for banks by 0.5 percentage point on February 4, the first cut since May 2012. And the PBoC reduced the one-year benchmark interest rate by 0.25 percentage po ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-05
... r cut the reserve requirement ratio to 16 percent. Nevertheless, it’s quite difficult to pick the timing for execution. A rule of thumb is to collect these stocks amid correction and take profit with ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-05
... S Federal Reserve found that the ban actually made the crisis worse. It exacerbated volatility, increased price declines and cost investors an additional US$500 million in trading costs. Ironically (o ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-05
... e in bank reserve requirement ratio (RRR) this year. Net profit of the Chinese lenders will also be curbed by the deposit insurance system, which will formally be launched in the second half of the ye ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-05
Federal Reserve chief Janet Yellen met with a research firm that later published confidential details from the central bank but said she did not know where the information had come from, Yellen met w ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-05
