China Unicom (00762.HK, 600050.CN) is an underdog. Among the country's three state-owned telecommunications operators, the company may even look like a bad bet. The mighty China Mobile (00941.HK) is ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-27
... ect Trump may be only bluffing to boost his bargaining chips at the G20 summit in Osaka this weekend. Many believe that by threatening to withdraw from the security pact, Trump may, to some extent, be ...More
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... r Theresa May is in full swing. To those of us watching from the outside, the debate between the candidates confirms that they have learned nothing whatsoever from the past two years of negotiations w ...More
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... aders. On May 15, the administration launched a website and urged the US public to report instances of political bias on social media platforms. On Twitter, user @CarpeDonktum, whose memes have been r ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-27
... . The Fed may also have standing, though it is less clearcut, he added. A demotion would mean a pay cut, from an annual salary of US$203,500 to US$183,100, base pay levels set by Congress for 2019. It ...More
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... y that he may impose a lower, 10 percent duty on a US$300 billion list of Chinese imports, instead of the proposed 25 percent rate. Trump is expected to meet with Xi on Saturday in Osaka, a conversati ...More
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... surge and may look for the next key resistance level which is US$15,000,” he added. With major central banks keeping interest rates near all-time lows, investors have been looking for ways to diversif ...More
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... ashington may seek a ceasefire of sorts. Among them is the postponement of a speech by Trump's deputy, US Vice-President Mike Pence, in which he had been expected to criticize China's human rights rec ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-26
... osoft, it may not be a smart move to develop a whole new operating system for just a single series of device like the Surface. That could limit its user base and potential for future growth. Still, th ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-26
... . Beijing may not let her step down since the central government would not want to look weak. But how can she and her team restore public trust? This article appeared in the Hong Kong Economic Journal ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-26
... Hong Kong may one day become just another mainland city. He cited a mini-movie that has gone viral on social media recently. The film depicts the tribulation of a local butcher who gets framed by the ...More
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... , said on May 29 that his probe was never going to end with criminal charges against Trump and indicated it was up to Congress to decide whether he should be impeached. “If we had confidence that the ...More
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... ended on May 30. Following the results, shares in Micron rose as much as 10 percent to US$35.95 in after-hours trading on Nasdaq. ‘Entity List' impact Mehrotra noted that Huawei was Micron’s No. 1 cu ...More
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... the CHRF may not necessarily be able to represent all protesters, inviting the organization to negotiation may serve as a viable starting point from which the government can then facilitate further d ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-25
... ence they may be causing to the public. Some protesters tried to keep the elevators open, and sporadic clashes between protesters and the department‘s staff erupted. Meanwhile, quite a number of staff ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-25
... d as they may be, resorted to their own messaging in a bid to convince the public that fears over the bill were unwarranted. As both camps waged an online war, there were many inspiring and thoughtfu ...More
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... ong youth may feel China becoming culturally closer. But that does not mean they would accept all mainland practices and systems. The massive protests against the extradition bill, in which youngsters ...More
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American multinationals may like the idea of forcing China to alter the policies and practices – from subsidies for state-owned enterprises to the requirement that foreign firms share proprietary tech ...More
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... he prices may not yet cause nosebleeds, they are clearly vulnerable to a general market decline... it would cause at least a one-year reduction in Berkshire's net worth. We think such a reduction is a ...More
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... cally, it may be that it isn’t ours to answer. The common rules created in our hemisphere can become the example the rest of the world follows,” he said. -- Contact us at [email protected] RC ...More
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