... s and the reserve requirement ratio for commercial banks. However, foreign investors have yet to fully embrace the mainland bull market. As a result, they have been piling into Hong Kong, snapping up ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-02
... eTV has a reserve of more than 30,000 hours of programs, including 10,000 drama episodes, 670 movies and 70 4K (very high-resolution) movies. Translation by Vey Wong [Chinese version中文版] -- Contact us ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-02
... nd banks' reserve requirement ratio by 50 basis points and 250 basis points, respectively. A 50 basis-point cut in RRR could come in June. This article appeared in the Hong Kong Economic Journal on Ju ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-01
... nd liquid reserves at commercial banks) has soared – doubling, tripling and, in the United States, quadrupling relative to the precrisis period. This has kept short- and long-term interest rates low ( ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-01
... S Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen has said she expects interest rates to rise this year, sending a clear signal to market participants that there will be a widening divergence between the US dollar ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-30
... 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
