... ts at the peak that then went into a bust and crash – in a matter of months - like you have not seen in any history of financial bubbles.” ‘What about blockchain?' supporters may cry. Roubini has the ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-18
Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor dismissed accusations that the government set the price too high for a land plot on the Peak, which developers cited as the reason for the failure of the auc ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-18
... reached “peak child”, and the number of children is no longer growing. But there remain high political barriers to renewable energy and, even more so, to reducing inequality. Making matters worse, in ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-18
With the value of Bitcoin having fallen by around 70 percent since its peak late last year, the mother of all bubbles has now gone bust. More generally, cryptocurrencies have entered a not-so-cryptic ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-16
... y. At its peak in the 1960s, Sears sold everything from toys and auto parts to mail-order homes, and was a key tenant in almost every big mall across the United States. But it has struggled to reinven ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-12
... d rate to peak at 3.25 percent. Powell’s remark has led market participants to revise their estimates. Widely watched bond investor Jeffrey Gundlach expects the 10-year yield to hit 6 percent before 2 ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-09
... th of its peak value a generation ago. GE Power’s falling profits last year forced GE to slash its overall profit outlook and cut its dividend for only the second time since the Great Depression. GE’s ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-02
... ct during peak periods such as the Grand Prix in November or the Lunar New Year. Prices, in fact, are softer in other hotels this year. A night at JW Mariott Macau on Oct. 5 costs HK$4,758, down almos ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-26
From its peak in January, the Hang Seng Index has retracted by about 20 percent this year. Year to date, Japan and India are the only two stock markets in Asia-Pacific that have maintained positive pe ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-24
The Hang Seng Index hit a record high of 33,484 points on January 29, and then tumbled 20 percent from its peak for the first time on September 7. Technically speaking it has already entered the bear ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-21
... reports. Speaking at Yahoo Finance’s second annual All Markets Summit, Novogratz said Galaxy Digital’s cryptocurrency index showed a “classic bottom” in the market, with a selloff of more than 85 perc ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-21
The Hang Seng Index has already tumbled over 6,000 points from its peak this year. Investors might have had their hopes too high and are now coming to terms with reality. So what are the worst fears o ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-20
... er to the peak level of 10 two hours later. It marked the second consecutive year that Hong Kong was forced to issue the No. 10 warning after Typhoon Hato battered the city in August 2017. The highest ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-17
... rc’teryx, Peak Performance, Atomic, Mavic, Suunto and Precor. Most of them are leaders in their specific market segments. The company’s business is divided into three broad segments, ball sports, fitn ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-14
... nt from a peak at the beginning of this year. That means analysts are gradually trimming their forecasts for blue-chips. In August, Hong Kong-listed companies issued 216 profit warnings in total, the ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-14
... s January peak amid Sino-US trade tensions, and several recent listings, such as Xiaomi’s, have dropped below their IPO prices. Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are join ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-13
... 0 did not peak until eight months later on average, while recession did not begin until 17 months later, on average. One important caveat is that the peak response is clearly bipolar, so that although ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-13
... lue hit a peak of US$578 billion in January before crashing to US$380 billion now. The firm's biggest money-maker is gaming. Its most popular game this year is PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Mobilee, b ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-13
... er during peak periods like holidays and festivals, Leung is looking to expand the chef base of the platform to about 100 by the end of this year. This article appeared in the Hong Kong Economic Journ ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-12
... e French-speaking Quebec and the sensitive issue of its pro-independence drive in the past. As one of the provinces and territories of Canada, Quebec had been a French colony known as the “New France” ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-11
