... daries of federal provinces within three months, another key demand of the Madhesis. It says other demands such as citizenship cards for foreign spouses of Nepali nationals will also be resolved throu ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-25
... by the US Federal Reserve, saying that "fluctuations in the currency market started with the raising of interest rates by the Fed." The comments by Li follow a volatile start for the yuan this year, w ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-22
... Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), the main heir to the Soviet-era KGB, the news agency said. "The FSB operation to kill Mr. Litvinenko was probably approved by Mr. Patrushev, then head of the ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-22
China has no choice but to shift its economic growth model and boost the share of services in its economy, former US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke said on Tuesday. As manufacturing and propert ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-19
... r, if the Federal Reserve fails to deliver further rate increases as expected -- as a result of economic difficulties elsewhere -- the gold price may rebound strongly. Geopolitical risks in the Middle ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-16
... at the US Federal Reserve would raise interest rates and that the renminbi would depreciate became stronger, senior mainland officials insisted there weren't any fundamental reasons for the currency t ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-15
The White House is preparing to announce as soon as Friday an overhaul of how the United States manages coal development on federal land, Reuters reported, citing unnamed government and conservationis ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-15
... filed in federal court in Oakland, California, said. Fields wants Twitter to pay her triple damages for violating the federal Anti-Terrorism Act by having provided material support to terrorists. Her ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-15
... n and the Federal Home Loan Banks of Chicago and Seattle, Reuters reported, citing a company statement. The bank will pay a US$2.385 billion civil monetary penalty, make US$875 million in cash payment ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-15
... mbers the Federal Reserve uses in deciding when to raise interest rates. It is true that employment data are already seasonally adjusted to allow for normal weather differences in temperate zones; con ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-12
Global equity markets posted a nearly 4 percent drop last year as a result of uncertainty about the timing of the US Federal Reserve's liftoff in interest rates, slower growth in emerging economies an ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-11
... of the US Federal Open Market Committee shed light on the internal debate over which priority takes precedence, and future rate moves will become data-dependent. Inflation in the United States has sta ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-11
The US Federal Reserve focused on improvements in the US labor market most of the time last year. It hinted that a liftoff in rates would not come until inflation rose above 2 percent. However, the ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-09
US federal marshals on Thursday raided the booth of a Chinese company at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and confiscated one-wheeled skateboards on display. The raid took place after Future ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-08
... erm. Some Federal Reserve officials have hinted that rate hikes would speed up this year, and that would weigh on equity markets in the United States and Hong Kong. By contrast, markets in Europe and ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-05
... d. The US Federal Reserve has started it policy tightening cycle, but Europe is further loosening its monetary stance. Nonetheless, Li reckons Hong Kong will benefit by taking up a crucial role in mai ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-05
... filed in federal court in Manhattan on Monday, a lawyer for Ng Lap Seng, 68, said the Chinese citizen would withdraw a request for a speedy trial in the bribery case, Reuters reported. The lawyer, Be ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-05
... ut the US Federal Reserve’s move to increase interest rates, together with slowing growth (and, in turn, investment) in China and collapsing oil and commodity prices, has brought the capital inflow bo ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-04
... in the US Federal Reserve's liftoff. I believe global investors will switch to overweighting European equities and underweighting US stocks next year. Tenth, there has been a boom in global mergers an ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-31
... hough the Federal Reserve has started raising interest rates, the central banks of Europe, Japan, the United Kingdom and China are maintaining a loose monetary policy. However, the impact of quantitat ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-31
