Financial Secretary John Tsang will deliver his 2015-16 budget speech this Wednesday. Most people, from ordinary housewives to the biggest property developers, are eager to know if the government will ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-24
The Year of the Horse has been far from normal, and various weird things happened at home and abroad. (1) The biggest surprise is that President Xi Jinping has been so serious in his fight against cor ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-18
The world’s major central banks have begun monetary easing -- an attempt to bolster economic growth by printing more money. But despite abundant liquidity, banks continue to impose various restriction ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-13
At this time of the year, you will probably bump into more tourists than residents in Hong Kong, just like in Macau. The Immigration Department expects 7.88 million travelers to cross the city's borde ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-13
Conventional wisdom has it that margin trading has been fueling most of China’s A share rally since 2014. So when the China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) announced stricter rules on margin fina ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-03
I have a feeling that Premier Li Keqiang himself may be doubtful about his optimistic outlook for the Chinese economy in this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos. Instead, let's turn to academic stud ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-02
Hong Kong should allocate more land for 4- and 5-star hotels, encourage diversity of shopping and offer more shows and cultural events to lure wealthier people from the mainland, who are increasingly ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-23
Watch out: Rolex and other Swiss watches may run out of stock soon. To be fair, shoppers aren't exactly scrambling to get into luxury watch stores, the way mainland tourists used to do in front of a f ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-22
Ports Design chairman Alfred Chan Kai-tai, the majority shareholder of the high-end fashion retailer (00589.HK), is looking to buy out the rest of the shareholders at a steep discount. The luxury bran ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-08
The Shanghai Composite Index soared more than 50 percent in 2014, making it a star performer worldwide. The A-share boom looks set to extend into the new year, but nobody knows when the bubble may bur ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-05
Some local poultry farmers have threatened to release 5,000 chickens in Central in protest against the government’s rules on the use of the Ta Kwu Ling wholesale market, Apple Daily reported Friday. W ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-02
Shanghai's main stock index could hit the 3,500-points mark within the first quarter of 2015 as the Chinese central bank has joined global peers in injecting more liquidity into the system, helping of ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-30
Some daring analysts are forecasting a more than 8 percent decline in the renminbi-US dollar exchange rate (to more than 6.60 yuan per US dollar from today’s 6.11 yuan) by the end of 2015. However, m ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-15
China may have seen the worst of the property slump even as home prices suffered their biggest annual fall in nearly four years in October. Property sales, investment and construction are showing earl ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-20
In recent weeks, there has been a chorus of opinion arguing for a sharp increase in global investment, particularly in infrastructure. Former United States Treasury secretary Lawrence Summers asserted ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-13
MTR Corp. Ltd. (00066.HK), Hong Kong's mass railway operator, is benefiting from the protest movement in increased passenger traffic, T Y Ko writes in a Hong Kong Economic Journal column. Passenger tr ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-20
As the leaders in Beijing watch the images of clashes and arrests in Mong Kok, they are increasingly angry and uneasy. They ask if the police have the means and the Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying has ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-20
As it turns out, more Hong Kong people rooted for the protesters than cheered iPhone 6. But that does not mean the much coveted device was out of sight or out of mind. After all, iPhone traders may ha ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-09
The mainland media today lifted the veil on the protests in Hong Kong, with detailed reports of their impact on public order, government services and normal business activities. On its front page, the ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-03
The operator of the Peak Tram, which ferries people from Hong Kong's Central district to the popular tourist attraction of Victoria Peak, has proposed to replace the system's rail coaches with larger ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-03
