... . The US Federal Reserve has kept rates steady after hiking them in December last year. Most importantly, Hong Kong still faces a structural housing supply shortage. The vacancy rate touched a 25-ye ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-01
With the Federal Reserve finally accomplishing a lift-off in interest rates in December last year, equity investors might want to spend more time looking at the shape of the US yield curve rather than ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-29
... former US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke repeatedly stressed the role of a global "saving glut" (notably in China) to explain lower rates. More recently, former US Treasury Secretary Lawrence S ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-29
... mother, a federal judge ruled. US District Judge Paul Friedman on Wednesday said Hinckley, 61, who was found not guilty by reason of insanity in a 1982 trial, no longer posed a danger to himself or ot ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-28
The Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged on but said near-term risks to the US economic outlook had diminished. The US central bank's latest statement opens the door to a resumption of moneta ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-28
... elated. A Federal Bureau of Investigation probe of the issue found no basis for criminal charges, but FBI director James Comey said there was evidence Clinton was "extremely careless" in her handling ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-28
... if the US Federal Reserve gives any hints this week about a potential rate hike, it could weigh on the Hong Kong market. The Hong Kong market's direction right now depends mainly on capital flows. Cor ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-26
A former Wall Street investment banker faces trial in Manhattan for insider trading, the first since a US appeals court curtailed the ability federal prosecutors to pursue such cases. Sean Stewart, an ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-25
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. is expected to pay US$200 million to settle federal investigations into its hiring practices in Asia. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that negotiations are at an advan ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-22
... iled in a federal court referred to "Malaysian Official 1" in the complaint, a reference believed to be of Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, who had overseen the state fund. The Justice Departmen ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-21
... iled in a federal court in New York. The move came in the wake of an investigation by the US Justice Department into foreign-exchange rigging at global banks. HSBC said it cooperating in the US probe. ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-21
US lawmakers have introduced long-stalled legislation that would make it a federal crime to share sexually explicit material of a person online without the subject’s consent. The Intimate Privacy Prot ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-15
... s. The US Federal Communications Commission on Thursday voted unanimously to open nearly 11 gigahertz of high-frequency spectrum for mobile, flexible and fixed-use wireless broadband, Reuters reports. ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-15
Two interest rate increases at the most could come before the year is out, a senior Federal Reserve official says. Philadelphia Fed president Patrick Harker is tamping down his expectations for contin ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-14
The Chinese government likely hacked computers at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in 2010, 2011 and 2013 and employees at the US banking regulator covered up the intrusions, according to a US cong ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-14
... th the US Federal Bureau of Investigation in 2002. Given her strong track record, her removal from the top post will continue to fuel suspicions of underhand dealings by politically powerful people. B ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-12
... pt the US Federal Reserve to hold off on further rate hikes. Moreover, the Chinese central bank could further ease its monetary policy to stimulate the nation's economy. While these are positive facto ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-11
... peared in federal court in Manhattan n charges of securities fraud and wire fraud, Reuters reports. Caspersen, a Princeton University and Harvard Law School graduate, admitted to cheating numerous peo ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-07
