... ll market may have ended. Investors generally consider a drop of 20 percent from a recent high to signify a bear market, raising the expectations of a drawn-out period of negative sentiment. “There’s ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-10
... ssue that may arise is who owns the shopper data, something that businesses typically want in order to tailor marketing offers and build their customer base. Shoppers who desire a receipt will be able ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-09
Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. (00293.HK) may fly only freight to Japan, and no passengers, if it retains some services whose cancellation it announced at the weekend over travel curbs prompted by a coro ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-09
... tudy last May by the Center for a New American Security, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, on China and the United Nations reported that China was “increasingly using its economic, political and in ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-09
... umers who may previously have been hesitant to begin investing in cryptocurrencies, co-founder and CEO Zac Prince told EJ Insight in an email interview. "Both myself and my co-founder Flori [Marquez] ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-09
... ion, HSBC may see its share price decline even lower. Interestingly, while its share price drifts lower, its dividend yield looks higher. The historic yield now tops 8.2 percent. But even if its divid ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-09
... idday nap may prove effective. Scientists from the University of Athens Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health studied 23,681 Greek men and women over a duration of six years. They fou ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-09
... Covid-19 may become not only a huge health crisis, but also a crisis of globalization and global governance. Most obviously, it raises the question of how the world should organize itself against the ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-09
... ent. This may sound curious to the ears of most legal practitioners in Hong Kong but it was ever so in England. As counsel, we formulated our argument as the case progressed, so that we were ready to ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-09
... thorities may also need to consider steps to keep people out of crowded places if the virus continued to spread. Still, he downplayed the likelihood of the type of large-scale mandatory quarantines im ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-09
... – reality may be one thing, perception is another. Medical staff tasked with the most high-risk activities – including nurses and caretakers – currently have the least say within the hierarchical publ ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-09
... n Beijing may just opt for a far more dangerous way of extricating themselves from the coronavirus fallout which involves mobilizing not just the freelance thugs who have previously been brought into ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-06
... o all she may have come in contact with. The patient (Hong Kong's 105th coronavirus case), a 69-year-old lady who has some underlying illness and lives in Happy Valley, visited the western part of Ind ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-06
... t Beijing may dramatically loosen the monetary policy to counter the downward pressure from the coronavirus outbreak. As a matter of fact, China and the US have both taken a U-turn to aggressive Keyne ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-06
If you had any plans of visiting Japan this spring to enjoy the cherry blossoms, you may be forced to rethink your options. And the same could even apply to the Olympic Games in the summer. Travel to ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-06
... ether, we may potentially impact the spread of the disease in our community,” it said. Many of the cases in Washington state have been linked to an outbreak at a nursing facility in the Seattle suburb ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-06
S&P Global Ratings warned on Friday that the coronavirus outbreak could knock US$211 billion off the combined economies of the Asia-Pacific, Reuters reports. Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Austra ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-06
... ders, she may conclude that backing Biden – who surged to the lead by winning 10 of the 14 Super Tuesday states – is better positioned to help her advance her policy priorities. A Reuters/Ipsos poll r ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-06
... decision may have been welcomed by the general public, but not quite so by other public transport service operators in the city. The reason: the rail giant’s fare freeze could affect the other firms' ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-05
... ess. What may appear to be a loose rule can be very stringent if the authority chooses so. This article appeared in the Hong Kong Economic Journal on March 4 Translation by Julie Zhu [Chinese version ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-05