... w Federal Reserve chairman, said the United States central bank will not raise interest rates in the near future. Wharf Holdings (00004.HK) closed 4.7 percent higher, New World Development (00017.HK), ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-12
... S Federal Reserve and the Bank of England have set their respective referencing rates on unemployment at 6.5 percent and 7 percent for any upward adjustment in interest rates. Such guidance is intende ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-10
... ts to the reserve requirement ratio, relending and rediscounting. The central bank also pledged to improve communication with the market and the public to stabilize expectations and interest rates. It ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-10
... sting the reserve requirement ratio, relending and rediscounting will be adopted to manage liquidity in the banking system. The central bank also pledged to enhance its communication with the market a ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-10
... e Federal Reserve would taper its massive bond-buying program, the technical trend of this so-called market breadth has turned worse. Despite subsequent new highs in the S&P 500 Index in the seven ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-06
... S Federal Reserve's decision to wind back its asset-buying program. The HKEJ's investor diary looks at how the Fed tapering might play out. Global stock markets have turned upside down over the pa ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-05
... w Federal Reserve chairwoman Jane Yellen. In China, the risk of shadow banking will continue to haunt the minds of investors as bolder reforms are in the pipeline in 2014. For emerging economies, thei ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-05
... e Western Reserve University School of Law, have also noted that China procrastinates in the implementation of WTO decisions. However, Webster told a hearing of the Congressional-Executive Commission ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-04
As financial markets brace for the US Federal Reserve's tapering this year with an expectation that interest rates will eventually rise to keep the inflation genie in the bottle, the risk of deflation ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-04
... e Federal Reserve's plan last summer that it will soon taper its bond purchases, putting an end to the use of quantitative easing measures. As data at UBS A.G. showed, global emerging market funds hav ...More
EJ Insight2014-01-29
... e Federal Reserve will step up efforts to taper off its bond buying scheme, which could drive funds out of emerging markets, analysts said after the city experienced a panic sell-off on Monday. The be ...More
EJ Insight2014-01-28
Hong Kong stocks fell sharply on Monday following steep losses on Wall Street last Friday, with investors worried that the US Federal Reserve may cut its bond-buying program further and reduce the flo ...More
EJ Insight2014-01-27
... e Federal Reserve's exit from its debt purchase plan, Jiang said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Saturday. Global investors still have mixed views on the pace of recovery of majo ...More
EJ Insight2014-01-27
... S Federal Reserve tapering but global market volatility might trigger capital outflows, Guan said. The foreign exchange settlement surplus in 2013 soared 210 percent from the previous year to 1.68 tri ...More
EJ Insight2014-01-24
... s Federal Reserve could trim its bond-buying program by another US$10 billion as soon as next week. HK Electric, an investment trust carved out from Hong Kong-listed Power Assets Holdings Ltd., sold 4 ...More
EJ Insight2014-01-22
... e Federal Reserve's discount window and made available to financial institutions in 10 selected provinces when interbank lending rates top certain levels. Also as part of a move to soothe recent cash ...More
EJ Insight2014-01-21
... le app to reserve the clothes online if they cannot make up their mind whether to buy then and there. If they do decide to buy, they just tap the screen, pay through WeChat and wait a few days for the ...More
EJ Insight2014-01-16
... cale coal reserve facilities, and 30 logistics parks -- each having annual handling capacity of 20 million tons of coal -- will be built. A group of modern coal logistics flagship firms will be nurtur ...More
EJ Insight2014-01-16
... sures to preserve arable land. Decades of breakneck land development and construction have come down to a basic question: food. Previously, local cadres and developers were happy to build around farml ...More
EJ Insight2014-01-14
... S Federal Reserve starts scaling back its bond-buying program. Although Jiang believes the central government won't launch new curbs on the property market this year, China needs to stabilize its curr ...More
EJ Insight2014-01-13
