... favoring targeted fiscal measures instead. Finally, he has promoted gradual deleveraging to reduce local government debt, which accumulated after the 2009 stimulus. Like fiscal policy, monetary polic ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-20
... wdfunding target in time for the Legco election campaign season that is set to begin as early as this summer. The good news is that jokes about names and logos will eventually pass, and banking and ot ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-12
... es amid a target of 85 percent toilet coverage by 2020. In recent years, China has emerged as a key player in the world in the tourism sector, both in terms of inbound and outbound tourism. Improvemen ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-12
... ate is on target to enter initial clinical trials in September. Schuchat declined to forecast the number of Zika infections that could occur in the US. While she said she did not expect large outbreak ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-12
... ould only target online shopping for foreign goods, or Haitao, rather than Chinese travelers who bring luxury goods back home. However, there is always a gray area for policy implementation in China. ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-11
... the core target as the number of adult lovers of animation films has been increasing rapidly, fueling box-office gains last year and possibly this year too, a Hong Kong Trade Development Council repo ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-11
... t-popular target market for Chinese property investors after the US, according to search data from Juwai.com, a popular international real estate portal in China. Some Chinese investors have become mo ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-11
... erchant's target audience. “I won’t say it is cheap because you have to pay for each posting if you want more people to read your message," he said. "But at least it has been quite effective in genera ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-08
... 's growth target of 6.5 to 7 percent is still robust, while the central bank has room for further cuts in interest rates and lenders' reserve requirement ratio, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reported ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-08
... left its target interest rate for overnight lending between banks at between 0.25 percent and 0.5 percent in March and in January after December's hike which ended seven years of near-zero rates. -- ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-07
... official target range for 2016, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing the Asian Development Bank (ADB). At its annual parliament earlier this month, the government set a target of 6.5 percent to 7 ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-31
Can Japan reach its inflation target? Will yen continue to depreciate? I'm not optimistic about that. An uptrend in the value of the yen will put pressure on the country’s inflation rate. Many econom ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-24
... original target of delivering 480,000 units. Leung has achieved at least 90 percent, if not 100 percent, on his promise to fulfill housing needs for Hong Kong people, said Lau, who had served as a fu ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-24
... ercent in targeted sectors – steel, coal mining and cement – these cuts would translate to layoffs of up to three million workers in the coming two or three years. Last year, 13.1 million new urban jo ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-23
... hey often target local professional women who are desperate to find someone to love. After they win a victim’s heart through lies and flatteries, they start testing how wealthy their target is by aski ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-21
... reach and target their pitches to specific types of readers. “As long as there are lots of likes, companies are happy to spend their advertising dollars on the blog,” Yu said. However, it's important ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-19
... inflation target after imposing negative interest rate. The Federal Reserve, the only central bank that is in the tightening cycle, may halt the rate normalization process. We believe the Fed may rais ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-19
... 2 percent target set by the central bank. In the short run, I believe the yen/dollar rate will be bouncing between 112 and 114 to the dollar. This article appeared in the Hong Kong Economic Journal on ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-18
... Fed Fund target rate given the unemployment rate and PCE. That is more than 300 basis points above the current level. Still, there is limited scope for a rate hike for a number of reasons. US debt r ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-18
... ngage in "target competition," while the Foreign Ministry expressed regret over the Gambia move. Gambia had recognized mainland China from 1974 to 1995, before switching over to Taiwan. Other countrie ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-18
