... official reserve currency by the International Monetary Fund later this year. The government's moves -- including agreeing currency swap deals with other countries and opening stock-trading channels ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-29
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen has put the first US interest rate rise since 2006 firmly on the agenda for this year. History suggests the consequences of such a move on Asia's economies could be ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-28
... ts, lower reserve requirement ratio (RRR) for banks, tax reductions, and increased investment in infrastructure projects. Many domestic brokerages expect China's consumer price index will expand below ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-27
... mandatory reserve ratios, have fueled a rise in the Shanghai, Shenzhen, and ChiNext indices -- by 95 percent, 198 percent, and 383 percent, respectively, since January 2013. Chinese stock-market capit ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-27
The financial markets and global economies could experience some volatility when the US begins tightening its monetary policy, a top Federal Reserve official warned on Tuesday. "In the normalizing of ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-27
... d cut the reserve requirement ratio for commercial banks by 1.5 percent to ease pressure on the economy. China has a current account deficit of US$80 billion and an export surplus of US$7.9 billion du ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-26
... nd banks' reserve requirement ratio. Ou Yafei, research head in the mainland of GF Securities Co. Ltd. (01776.HK), said the upcoming Shenzhen-Hong Kong Stock Connect will be the biggest catalyst for t ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-26
... want to preserve the old buildings in the city, this is my passion," Koslow says. There has been talk that the URA may apply the Land Resumption Ordinance (LRO) and seek to forcibly acquire the unit. ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-22
... s foreign reserve and current account surplus are also declining, he noted. -- Contact us at [email protected] JH/JP/RC ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-22
... 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
