... vel since May 9, 2008. With the escalating trade war giving Beijing fewer reasons to maintain yuan stability, analysts said they expect the currency to continue to weaken. “In the short term, the yuan ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-05
As the nominee to succeed European Central Bank President Mario Draghi in November, Christine Lagarde may be hoping that her job will be somewhat easier than that of her predecessor. Yet the opposite ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-05
... e company may have also inflated the revenue and profit through such arrangement. US prosecutors also suspect that Liu was involved in a massive money-laundering scheme. It has been a common practice ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-05
... d CNBC in May that a US-China trade war would be “bad for the whole world”, and a full-scale trade war would be “bad for everything Berkshire owns”. More cash Berkshire ended June with US$122.4 billio ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-05
... rotesters may still continue with their resistance movement while the police would be deeply alienated when an independent inquiry is conducted. Another concern of the government is that the chief exe ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-05
... y 28, but may also signify that the authorities will no longer go easy on arrested protesters. Apart from the serious criminal charges, police are also adopting new ways to deal with the protesters in ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-02
... d persons may have been involved in the recent violent protests in the city, going by the objects seized from them. As news surfaced of the police action, more than 100 people gathered outside the Sha ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-02
... off since May, it has drained nearly US$600 billion of liquidity from the market since November 2014, according to its data. Whenever there was a sharp decline in the balance sheet of the world’s four ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-02
Kaohsiung Mayor Han Kuo-yu, the candidate of the opposition Kuomintang (KMT) in Taiwan's presidential election, will need the full support of his partymates to unseat President Tsai Ing-wen of the rul ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-01
... es. Legco may also seek additional funding from the government if necessary, Leung added. On the night of July 1, hundreds of protesters, who were part of a larger crowd of demonstrators protesting ag ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-01
... I agree, may fuel concerns about “mainlandization” of media in Hong Kong. Still, I would argue that as Hong Kong practices “one country, two systems” and is known for a highly diversified and plurali ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-01
... m. Apple may now be selling fewer units of the iPhone, compared with previous years, but it has more than a billion devices currently using all sorts of Apple services and content. The group's prospe ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-01
... next step may be to limit access of Chinese companies, especially state ones, to US capital markets. The next American president, be it Trump or someone else, is likely to continue these anti-China po ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-01
Economic growth in the United States was just 2.5 percent in 2018 and, according to the latest “advance” estimate, may have slowed to only 2.1 percent in the second quarter of 2019. The economy is gr ...More
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... said. The May 7 indictment had been kept under seal until late Tuesday. Liu is believed to be in China, which does not have an extradition treaty with the US. An arrest warrant has been drawn up, acco ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-01
The US Federal Reserve cut interest rates on Wednesday for the first time in more than a decade but said the move might not be the start of a lengthy campaign of such easing moves. In a statement at t ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-01
... officers may have looked the other way or even colluded with gangsters to teach anti-government protesters a lesson, Hong Kong's anti-graft agency is reported to be examining the events that took pla ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-31
... ng space, may be viewed as ideal for an ascetic with a minimalist lifestyle, but they come with some hazards. Denis Ma On-ping, head of research at JLL Hong Kong, has pointed out that there are certai ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-31
... d MTR Bus may be suspended at any time without prior notice if winds become too strong, it said. Should Storm Signal No. 9 be issued, services in open sections of the railway, Light Rail and MTR Bus m ...More
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