Hong Kong now accounts for just 3 percent of China’s GDP, compared with 20 percent two decades ago. Does that mean the city is no longer that important for China’s economic growth? Not necessarily. Fa ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-27
A Chinese logistics company backed by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. has filed for an initial public offering in New York. Best Logistics Technologies Ltd., based in Alibaba’s hometown of Hangzhou, said o ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-27
A Hong Kong-based private equity fund is making its first acquisition in the United States. AGIC Capital, a US$1 billion fund co-founded in 2015 by veteran China banker Henry Cai, said it will acquire ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-26
Leung Chun-ying has the lowest popularity rating of any chief executive, trailing his predecessors by significant margins, a new survey has found. The survey, commissioned by the Democratic Party, was ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-26
While incoming Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor and her new cabinet are all set to assume office on July 1, outgoing Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying is racing against time to push his propo ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-26
During the recent summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the prime minister of Luxembourg, Xavier Bettel, and his "first lady" who came along with him to the event, became the focus ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-26
新一屆政府終於順利誕生,得到國務院批准,可以在數天後開始為香港廣大市民服務。很多聲音對於候任特首林鄭的人選作出 ...全文
The International Monetary Fund has resurrected an old technique – commonly used in the 1980s during the Latin American debt crisis – that would allow Greece to avoid a payment default next month on d ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-23
The Executive Council (Exco) raced against time last week to pass the government proposal of implementing "contractual working hours" (CWH), which allows employers and employees to agree on the number ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-22
The United States pressed China to exert more economic and diplomatic pressure on North Korea to help rein in its nuclear and missile programs during a round of high-level talks in Washington on Wedne ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-22
China’s entry into the MSCI global indices is a historic milestone. The MSCI inclusion is small, but slightly higher than expected. China’s efforts in re-regulating stock trading suspension, the expan ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-21
上星期摩根大通量化交易頭號人物Marko Kolanovic,指出約60%的股票資產由被動型基金和量化投資人持 ...全文
Though there are less than two weeks left before his time comes to an end as Hong Kong's leader, Leung Chun-ying is still working aggressively to press ahead with some of his policy initiatives. Among ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-20
For almost a decade, Pakistan has lacked the energy it needs, with producers and consumers across the country facing power outages for up to 12 hours per day. At the root of this crisis lies poor gove ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-20
Under the MPF offsetting mechanism, employers in Hong Kong were allowed to settle severance and long-service payments to laid-off staff using money the firms contributed to the employees' retirement f ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-14
The tech-laden Nasdaq Composite Index declined 1.8 percent last Friday after Goldman Sachs warned of a “valuation air-pocket” in five leading tech stocks dubbed as FAAMG (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Micr ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-14