{"id":3297,"date":"2015-06-28T08:47:09","date_gmt":"2015-06-28T16:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/?p=3297"},"modified":"2015-06-28T08:47:09","modified_gmt":"2015-06-28T16:47:09","slug":"looming-fed-rate-rise-welcomed-by-taiwan-finance-chief-chang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/looming-fed-rate-rise-welcomed-by-taiwan-finance-chief-chang\/","title":{"rendered":"Looming Fed Rate Rise Welcomed by Taiwan Finance Chief Chang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Taiwanese Finance Minister Chang Sheng-ford said he&#8217;d be &#8220;glad&#8221; to see the Federal Reserve raise interest rates, even given the likelihood that the resulting capital flows will deal a short-term blow to his economy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If the US raises interest rates, it means the US economy is recovering at a faster pace,&#8221; Chang, 65, said in an interview in Taipei on Monday. &#8220;This would be helpful to Taiwan&#8217;s economy because the US is one of our big export destinations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chang indicated that he saw any blow from capital shifts from Taiwan as likely to be manageable and outweighed by the benefits for Taiwan and Asia from a strengthening of the world&#8217;s biggest economy. Some money has already been exiting, he added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2015-06-22\/looming-fed-rate-increase-welcomed-by-taiwan-finance-chief-chang\" rel=\"nofollow\">article source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwanese Finance Minister Chang Sheng-ford said he&#8217;d be &#8220;glad&#8221; to see the Federal Reserve raise interest rates, even given the likelihood that the resulting capital flows will deal a short-term blow to his economy. &#8220;If&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-3297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance-2","tag-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3298,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3297\/revisions\/3298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}