Hong Kong's residential property market has seen some softening over the past two months. The Centa-City Leading Index has come down by 3.1 percent to 182.73 points as of November after hitting a peak ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-13
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
If there is one special thing about my home district Tseung Kwan O, it is all about the ultra-high-density living. Looking out from my balcony, I can see around 20,000 homes. The calculation is easy: ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-01
Despite a string of good news, including the easing of US-China trade tensions, the inclusion of A shares into MSCI indices, monetary easing gestures from China's central bank, and robust first-quarte ...More
EJ Insight2018-06-11
How could a pizza order be worth US$82 million? The answer lies in Bitcoin pizza day, which first happened on May 22, 2010 – when Bitcoin user Laszlo Hanyecz bought two pizzas with the cryptocurrency. ...More
EJ Insight2018-05-25
After their stellar performance last year, emerging market assets have taken a back seat, and most have been in the red since the beginning of April. This is when the risk that had largely been at the ...More
EJ Insight2018-05-24
Talk of lawmaker and chairwoman of the New People’s Party Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee eyeing the District Council (Second) functional constituency or the so-called Super District Council seat in the 2020 Le ...More
EJ Insight2018-05-24
Hong Kong's next District Council (DC) election is still more than a year away, but that hasn't stopped members of both the political camps from starting to gear up for the race. Among such people is ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-27
The opening of the mega-bridge to Macau and Zhuhai draws closer by the day, with Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor traveling the full length for the first time last Friday. On March 15, the 7 ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-04
Toys "R" Us Inc. said it will sell or close all of its stores in the United States, a move that could affect 33,000 jobs in the coming months, the Wall Street Journal reports. Chief executive David Br ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-15
Despite the recent fund outflows and softness of the Hong Kong dollar, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), the city's de facto central bank, appears to be pretty relaxed about the situation. Usin ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-12
We have been saying recently that investors should prepare for greater volatility as the world's major central banks start to tighten the spigot of liquidity that has supported not only asset prices, ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-05
Chinese New Year (CNY) is one of the most celebrated festivals in Hong Kong. Every year, the city welcomes local residents and visitors from around the globe, hosting flower markets, night parades and ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-01
A rout in global equities deepened in Asia on Tuesday as inflation worries gripped financial markets, sending US stock futures sinking further into the red after Wall Street suffered its biggest decli ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-06
The European Central Bank (ECB) has rattled markets with a paragraph in its latest minutes noting that its forward guidance is likely be changed along "various dimensions" early this year. In particul ...More
EJ Insight2018-01-31
The financial-services industry has been undergoing a revolution. But the driving force is not overhyped blockchain applications such as Bitcoin. It is a revolution built on artificial intelligence, ...More
EJ Insight2018-01-29
Thousands of people gathered outside the government headquarters late Sunday to stage a protest after authorities barred a pro-democracy activist from the upcoming Legislative Council by-elections. Ch ...More
EJ Insight2018-01-29
US President Donald Trump said he ultimately wants the dollar to be strong, lifting the greenback and contradicting comments made by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin a day earlier. “The dollar is goi ...More
EJ Insight2018-01-26
Bitcoin fell below the US$10,000 level on Wednesday as a selloff continued in cyrptocurrencies amid fears of a regulatory clampdown on the units in various countries including South Korea and China. T ...More
EJ Insight2018-01-18
After a strong rally this year, the Hang Seng Index is likely to sustain the strength and hit a record level in 2018. Supporting the bullish outlook is the recovery momentum of the global economy and ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-22
