... S Federal Reserve and the US Treasury to teach the markets a lesson by allowing Lehman to fail was a disastrously bad call. The panic was sharp and severe, requiring central banks to play their fundam ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-23
... S Federal Reserve raises interest rates, credit will reverse to tight from loose. The exceptionally strong US dollar has sent prices of various commodities plunging, so their markets will become very ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-22
... S Federal Reserve will only raise borrowing costs at a gradual pace while plunging oil prices put pressure on inflation around the world. "The interest rate will not go up so quickly," he said. "And l ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-22
The share of US dollar in global foreign exchange reserves has risen from 60.7 percent in the second quarter of 2014 to 62.3 percent in the third quarter, marking the highest level in three years, acc ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-21
... sh banks' reserve requirement ratio by 100 basis points in the first half of 2015 to spur more lending. Others, however, think Beijing may have to get more aggressive, even at risk of reinflating asse ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-20
... remendous reserves [to exchange for euros],” he said. He said the role of the Swiss franc as a safe-haven currency will dwindle because the unit is not liquid enough. “A safe-haven currency requires l ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-16
... he banks' reserve requirement ratio three times, at 50 basis points each time. Meanwhile, Richard Jerram, chief economist at the Bank of Singapore, warned of a potential credit risk in China, noting t ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-16
... S Federal Reserve will hike interest rates as expected. If the Fed delays the rate hike or launches another round of quantitative easing, the property price rally will take longer to dissipate. -- Con ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-15
... or of the Reserve Bank of India, cited declining inflationary pressures for the decision to cut the policy repo rate to 7.75 percent from 8 percent. Wholesale price inflation has been at or close to z ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-15
... S Federal Reserve will begin raising interest rates, conceivably as early as April. For investors, this makes buying US dollars even more attractive. The other major economies, by contrast, are stagna ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-14
... the bank reserve requirement ratio two more times, he said. -- Contact us at [email protected] JH/AC/RC ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-13
... and they reserve the right to prosecute her. Chan became the first participant of the pro-democracy Occupy protests to comply with the police's “scheduled arrest”. She was accompanied by lawyer Micha ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-13
... S Federal Reserve withdrawing monetary stimulus prompted vast sums of foreign capital to bail out of the region, helps explain why Asian central banks might err on the side of tighter monetary policy. ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-12
The US dollar will continue strengthening in the first half of this year unless the US Federal Reserve launches a new round of quantitative easing. Global financial markets face a severe crisis unles ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-09
US Federal Reserve officials said economic turbulence overseas posed a significant risk to the US economy when they met in December, but also noted the policy makers in Europe and elsewhere were ready ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-08
... ushion of reserves to stave off speculative attacks; avoidance of large current-account deficits (with surpluses used to accumulate reserves); and low external public and private debt. Moreover, the e ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-07
... required reserve ratio at banks and switched to a more active rate cut strategy. The strategy shift has come against the backdrop of stubbornly tight liquidity and flagging economic growth. In fact, ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-05
... S Federal Reserve's planned increase in interest rates this year may also constrain the performance of the Hong Kong stock market, Cheung said. – Contact us at [email protected] JH/JP/FL ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-05
... S Federal Reserve has already been absorbed by the market, and thus, it won’t have much impact on the IPO market,” Chan said. He said investors have an appetite for China concept stocks while the Shan ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-05
... S Federal Reserve ended its quantitative easing in November 2014. By the end of last year, global monetary supply has jumped fourfold from 2008 levels. As a result, yield-bearing investments includin ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-05
