The PBOC's injection of additional funds into the financial sector aimed to ease the tightening liquidity in a period of tax payment, and to supplement capital for local government bond issuance, said Ming Ming, an economist with CITIC Securities.
The NPC Standing Committee will soon formulate related laws for Hong Kong as authorized by the decision in order to safeguard national security and sovereignty and ensure Hong Kong's stability and prosperity, he said. The decision is in accordance with China's Constitution and Hong Kong's Basic Law and applies to the fundamental interests of all Chinese people, including Hong Kong compatriots, Li Zhanshu said.
The National Development and Reform Commission has called for efforts to ensure stable commodity prices during the Spring Festival holiday period, which falls between Feb 4 and 10 this year.
The PBOC will make well-designed cross-cyclical policies, and innovate and improve instruments of the structural monetary policy. It will guide financial institutions to step up support for the fields that are in line with the new development philosophy, and encourage them to continuously increase the number of first-time small business borrowers and increase the issuance of unsecured loans to small businesses, Sun said.
The National Retail Foundation (NRF) warned that tariffs would add .6 billion a year to consumer spending on imported furniture. For shoppers, higher prices could become more widespread as some retailers grapple with how to recoup costs of tariffs on imports from China.
The Next Web reports that?Reddit, Coursera, Flipboard, FastCompany, Heroku, Airbnb and many others were impacted. ?Here are the updates from Amazon Web Services’ dashboard:
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The Oxford Institute of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences was established in the University of Oxford. This is the first time in its 800 years history that Oxford has a foreign university to set up a research unit on its campus. And it is the only one of its kind.
The National Transportation Safety Board was sending investigators to the scene on Friday, the agency said on Twitter.
The New York-based investment bank expects China's gross domestic product (GDP) to rise 6.6 percent year-on-year in 2018, up from its previous projection of 6.5 percent. Its forecast for 2019 improved from 6.3 percent to 6.4 percent.
The New Growth Driver Index shows the role of economic vitality, digital economy, restructuring, knowledge capacity and innovation as new growth drivers.