News Source: Chicago Tribune
| 22 days ago
Fed May Cause Next Crisis, Hong Kong's Tsang Suggests (Update2) c.2009 Bloomberg News (Adds Eichengreen comment in ninth paragraph...Bernanke , a scholar of the Great Depression, has overseen a record injection of liquidity into the world's largest
News Source: Sydney Morning Herald
| 2 months ago
Singapore is reminding us why the former Federal Reserve chairman's efforts are not working. Mr "We Can't Detect Bubbles" probably never thought he could learn a thing or three from an economy of 4.8 million people. This week, Singapore's National
News Source: Financial Times
| 2 months ago
Barring a few winners, such as Goldman Sachs – able, in the absence of rivals, “to Hoover up $1,000 bills”, as one observer put it – most western financial institutions have been brought to their knees...Others have been absorbed by rivals,
News Source: Financial Times
| 2 months ago
Speaking at the Sibos conference in Hong Kong on Monday, William White, the highly-respected former chief economist at the Bank for International Settlements, also warned that government actions to help the economy in the short run may be sowing the
News Source: Uinta County News
| 3 months ago
Hong Kong Government Bonds May Be Snapped Up by Banks (Update1) Sept. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Hong Kong’s first sale of government bonds in five years will be snapped up by banks holding record amounts of cash, according to JF Asset Management and ING
News Source: Uinta County News
| 3 months ago
Hong Kong’s Yam on Alert for Risks From End of Monetary Easing Aug. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Hong Kong needs to be on alert for “market fluctuations” when central banks in the U.S. and Europe pull back from loose monetary policies, Hong Kong Monetary
News Source: MarketWatch
| 3 months ago
This year we have witnessed a succession of warnings from industry leaders and regulators about the risks of a financial bubble in Hong Kong. But as the market climbs ever higher, these warnings fade to background noise. Last week, Joseph Yam, the
News Source: Channel NewsAsia
| 4 months ago
Hong Kong's government announced on Friday that senior official Norman Chan will be taking over as head of the city's de facto central bank from October 1. Norman has a deep understanding of Hong Kong's financial markets and banking supervision. He