... s of five Central Asian countries – Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan – in New York ahead of the United Nations General Assembly this week, during which Washington is expect ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-23
... e Iranian Central Bank while the Pentagon said it is sending US troops to bolster Saudi Arabia’s air and missile defenses. Iran denied involvement in the attack. Yemen’s Houthi movement, an Iran-align ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-23
... donesia’s Central Kalimantan province, youths carrying placards marched through heavy smog caused by nearby forest fires. In the eastern Indian city of Kolkata, at the first of a series of protests, a ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-20
... number of central banks are addressing the implications of pursuing the goals of the 2015 Paris climate agreement. But, as UN Secretary-General António Guterres has repeatedly said, the current global ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-20
... st of the central authorities. That being said, in order to truly get to the root of the social tensions, the government must thoroughly and comprehensively inspect and examine the deep-seated element ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-19
... sult, the central government sometimes has to bypass the Liaison Office and send special envoys directly to the Hong Kong government. To conclude, I would say that the dysfunctional legislature and th ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-19
... ng at the Central Government Offices in Admiralty on Wednesday, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reports. The meeting was a prelude to the direct dialogue with Hong Kong citizens that Chief Executive Ca ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-19
... prompted central banks around the world to loosen policy in recent months. The Federal Reserve on Wednesday cut rates for the second time this year, saying the reduction provided “insurance against o ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-19
... tantly on central banks for economic-policy support. In today’s environment of low – and in some cases negative – interest rates, the case for shifting the burden from monetary to fiscal policy is mor ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-19
... drove the central bank’s benchmark interest rate above its targeted range for the first time since the financial crisis, Reuters reports. The ructions in the money market come as Fed policymakers met ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-19
... aying the central bank chief had “No ‘guts,’ no sense, no vision!” “A terrible communicator,” Trump tweeted before Powell had even begun his news conference. Later, the president said the Fed’s decisi ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-19
... d, the US central bank is widely expected on Wednesday to cut its key overnight lending rate by a quarter of a percentage point for the second time this year. The Fed is due to release its policy stat ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-18
... ations in Central America and the Pacific. The Solomons, a former British protectorate that is home to about 600,000 people, had been the largest of the Taiwan-aligned Pacific countries, with access t ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-18
... ssession. Central America, in particular, is wracked by land inequality and climate-change-driven hunger. In the “Dry Corridor” – which runs through Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua, an ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-18
... Place in Central to voice concern over the police's treatment of social workers during anti-extradition protests and show their support for social workers arrested by police during demonstrations. Th ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-17
As the Hong Kong protest movement shows no signs of ending, the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission (CPLAC) of the Communist Party of China has begun to weigh in on the matter frequently si ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-17
... through a central touchscreen panel. Mosaic Acquisition Corp, formed by SoftBank unit Fortress Investment Group for making acquisitions, will take on the Vivint name after the deal closure. Blackstone ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-17
... bs at the Central Government Offices and police officers, set fire at multiple locations, attacked others and reporters," a government press release said. Despite police objection, a large number of p ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-16
... ut in the central bank’s medium-term loan facility rate (MLF) as early as Tuesday, which would open the way for a reduction in the new loan prime benchmark rate (LPR) later in the week. But room for s ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-16
... ntly, the central bank freed up 900 billion yuan (US$127.2 billion) in liquidity earlier this month by cutting banks’ reserve requirement ratio (RRR). The authorities, however, have vowed not to use t ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-16
