The UK referendum will impact capital flows in Europe and interest rate policy in the US, and may also have a knock-on effect on Hong Kong's property market. A key thing to watch in the wake of the Br ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-07
A social enterprise restaurant which failed to renew a rental contract in Lai Chi Kok has been offered new premises in Wan Chai at reasonable rent. Ginkgo House (銀杏館), a winner of the 2011 Outstanding ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-30
The situation in the United States today is almost the same as what happened before the Great Depression, according to a report from Morgan Stanley last week. Late last year, I wrote that the risk of ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-23
Gold on Thursday climbed above US$1,300 to the highest level in six weeks after the Federal Reserve scaled back the outlook for interest rate increases, Bloomberg reports. Bullion for immediate delive ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-16
Gold price rally appears to have run out of steam after a sharp uptick on June 3. But the yellow metal is still up 2.4 percent this month as a dismal US jobs report has bolstered expectations that th ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-08
A taxi driver was arrested for charging an undercover officer seven times the normal fare in a police operation Saturday targeting overcharging cab drivers, Sing Tao Daily reported Monday. The cabbie, ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-06
Three men broke into a house on the Peak and stole a luxury watch worth HK$250,000 (US$32,180). The break-in was discovered around 9 p.m. on Sunday by a domestic helper who had been alerted to noises ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-24
Shed a tear for the top echelon of expats in Hong Kong's finance and banking sector. The housing allowances fat enough to rent a 4,000 square foot harbor-view home on the Peak or a townhouse in Repuls ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-20
The minutes from the last Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting have provided no clear clue with regard to the timing or the pace of the US central bank's future rate moves. I noted last year ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-12
US equity markets have yet to bottom out after the Coppock Curve, a measure of trading momentum, tumbled below zero in February. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 climbed above 18,0 ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-05
Leung Chun-ying maintains solid connections with some senior party cadres, a political asset he has been building since the 1980s when he set foot in politics. But the incumbent central leadership, es ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-03
The net long position in the dollar index, DXY, has been contracting, while long positions in other major currencies are on the rise, data from the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission shows. That ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-28
Visitors are snapping up tickets to the June 16 opening day of Walt Disney Co.’s new theme park in Shanghai, grabbing everything just hours after online booking opened at midnight on Monday. Tickets f ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-29
China's financial reforms have encountered various challenges over the last year. In the first half of 2015, the nation's stock market hit new highs on hopes for A-share inclusion in MSCI indexes, as ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-19
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Those were the immortal words Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke during his inauguration as the 32nd president of the United States in March 1933, when the n ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-19
Hong Kong stocks posted gains recently due to several factors. Investors took heart from a Wall Street rally, which came amid expectations that the US Federal Reserve might hold off on further rate h ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-15
Technical and fundamental analysis seems to indicate that the market has already stabilized in the short term. However, the weakness has not changed in the medium term. Investors should switch their ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-08
China’s latest easing move signals that shoring up growth is the government’s top priority even if it further weakens its currency or adds to leverage that threatens the longer-term health of the worl ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-01
The 2016 National People's Congress (NPC) and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) meetings will be held in Beijing in about two weeks. The events will naturally set off renewed ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-19
Global equity markets have shown signs of stabilizing recently, and several markets even posted an uptick. That was mainly due to the softening US dollar and the recovery of commodity prices, oil in p ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-18
