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
... S Federal Reserve will increase interest rates faster than expected, something that could exert great pressure on Hong Kong's housing market. They believe home prices may drop 10 percent to 20 percent ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-02
... required reserve ratios this year, perhaps as soon as the first quarter, the report said. -- Contact us at [email protected] CG ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-02
... nd banks' reserve requirement ratio. Hu, a former International Monetary Fund official and ex-chairman of Greater China at Goldman Sachs, said the current 7.5 percent growth target for the economy is ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-02
... enormous reserve of vacant flats by fostering the private rental market to meet the urgent housing needs of low- to medium-income families. These measures may include: 1. Offering tax incentives to l ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-30
... Also, the reserve requirement ratio for newly increased deposits under the new rules will be temporarily set at zero. Analysts said the move is expected to lower banks' loan-to-deposit ratio and incre ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-29
... ion) cash reserve. Despite the surge in the number of subdivided flats, Cheung said the government has no intention of imposing regulations on such units or reintroducing rent controls. He said the ke ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-22
... w foreign-reserve coverage of their foreign debt would be more vulnerable to capital outflows than their healthier peers. From this perspective, India and Indonesia would potentially be hit hard, whil ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-19
A HK$27 billion (US$3.48 billion) housing reserve is being established to tackle the projected deficit of the Housing Authority in the long term and help it achieve the government's target for new hom ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-19
China's central bank is likely to cut interest rates and the reserve requirement ratio (RRR) for commercial banks across the board to boost liquidity in the coming year, China International Capital Co ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-18
The US Federal Reserve signaled that it expects to tighten monetary policy by the middle of 2015 as it dropped its forecast that it will keep interest rates low for a “considerable time”, the Financia ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-18
China's central bank is likely to slash interest rates once or twice and lower the reserve requirement ratio (RRR) two times in the coming year, CLSA said Monday. However, the first rate cut will not ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-15
... me to the Reserve Bank of Australia, commercial banks and close to the New South Wales state parliament. A couple of hundred people were being held back by cordons and a police SWAT team and the fire ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-15
... S Federal Reserve is likely to raise its key interest rate and after China's recent move to cut its benchmark rates. – Contact us at [email protected] VW/JP/RC ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-15
... lower the reserve requirement ratio (RRR) from the current level, and adjust the loan-to-deposit ratio by including interbank deposits in the calculation. -- Contact us at [email protected] RC ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-10
