... -sweeping peak season to ease the traffic pressure. Hong Kong lags behind some of its Asian neighbors like Malaysia and Taiwan in columbarium services, Ma notes. Many of the columbaria in these places ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-30
... t slashed peak-season export tariffs on urea and ammonium phosphate, boosting export volumes and easing oversupply in the domestic market, he said. Urea sales were 1.96 million tons, of which 44 perce ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-27
... uances at peak valuations if the A-share market sustains the rally. For its Hong Kong IPO, the top-end pricing translates into a price-to-earnings ratio of 14 times. Investors can take some short-term ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-27
... hitting a peak of US$70.4 billion in 2008, just before the global financial crisis. Last year the figure was US$55.5 billion. About 48 percent of such deals went into mining and energy, as China spent ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-27
... from the peak period, and then switches to the next target. But it spares no effort in doing this. The government doesn't just test the waters in one sector and give up easily. Investment returns ha ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-25
... rm to its peak level that year. Chairman William Fung Kwok-lun said the goals were set way too high and have turned out to be difficult to accomplish, given the changes in the retail environment over ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-20
... ached its peak on November 13, when it hit US$120. The stock closed Tuesday at US$84.50, about 24 percent above the US$68 IPO price but down 29 percent from its peak. On Wednesday, 437 million shares ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-18
... times the peak US production in the 1970s. But as China's economic growth slows, its excess steel output is finding its way overseas. Steel use in China rose by just 1 percent last year and the growth ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-17
... the 2007 peak of 14.2 percent. But the annual unemployment rate has remained largely unchanged from 2007 to 2014. Common sense tells us that the unemployment rate is more volatile than GDP growth or ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-16
... heir 1997 peak levels. For those that did not own property, the hardships came from unemployment peaking at almost 8 percent, and falling real incomes. Average household incomes around HK$19,000 a mon ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-13
... Frankly speaking, we should not expect any substantial fall in housing prices. The previous two rounds of tightening measures only cooled swelling property prices and led to a long period of market c ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-12
... ly during peak seasons such as the Lunar New Year and National Day holidays. In an interview with the Hong Kong Economic Journal in Beijing, Lo said Hong Kong's lack of support for the tourism sector ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-11
... likely to peak out after several straight years of sharp gains”, “China's market has disappointed investors for many years, and investors should not expect too much"? Lee, who is now in his 90s, says ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-09
... nd Castle Peak in Tuen Mun and Lamma Island. The nuclear power plant in Shenzhen’s Daya Bay has been supplying electricity to Hong Kong since 1994. CLP is a major investor in the companies that own an ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-06
... rom their peak level. However, it’s quite interesting that most of the GARP stocks in the US markets are real estate, education and energy service plays. It remains uncertain whether the same theory c ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-05
... round the peak for much of the day, the Nasdaq Composite Index surged in late afternoon to finish firmly above the psychological barrier, only the third time the index had ended above 5,000 in nearly ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-03
... 7 percent peak rate in Hong Kong. Singapore has been less generous compared to Hong Kong in helping citizens combat rising prices and aging population. It has offered 50 percent income tax refund, whi ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-27
... reach its peak within the next half-century; in China, the labor force could shrink by 20 percent over this period. Of course, there are exceptions to this trend. Indonesia and South Africa are projec ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-27
... mid-2011 peak of 106 and China is on the verge of a "consumption deflation", just like the situation in Japan. Similarly, producer price index has also been hovering around low levels since 2011 and ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-25
... ists from peak season to the low season, according to the Jornal do Cidadão newspaper. Coming back to Hong Kong, the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong and the Liberal Pa ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-24
