Mohsin Khan is still at his job repairing aircraft hydraulics parts although the Singaporean turns 75 in a couple of months. His technical skills are prized by his employer, and as his eyesight deteri ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-18
Equity markets witnessed a remarkable bounce over the last two weeks. In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng Index rallied 7 percent from the trough since Christmas Eve, while in the US the S&P 500 index gai ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-16
Since its peak in August, transaction price of residential units in Hong Kong has fallen 5-10 percent on average. The Centa-City Leading Index ended 2018 at 174.49, representing a 7.5 percent slide f ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-11
The People’s Bank of China has announced a 1 percentage point cut in banks'reserve requirement ratio, and the market has responded more positively than it did to multiple cuts last year. More importan ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-09
Ever since Donald Trump assumed the US presidency in January 2017, Washington saw its relations with quite a few countries take a turn for the worse, including the ties with Mexico. One of Trump's mos ...More
EJ Insight2018-12-24
The party is coming to an end. For 10 years, central banks fueled the good times with a combination of low interest rates and quantitative easing to boost the global economy following the financial cr ...More
EJ Insight2018-12-20
Chinese President Xi Jinping praised Hong Kong's leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor during a meeting held in Beijing Monday afternoon, lauding her for her work over the past year. Lam led the Hong Kon ...More
EJ Insight2018-12-18
The US State Department has put Hong Kong under the "Tier 2 watch list" for the third consecutive year along with Zimbabwe, Liberia and the Central African Republic in its Trafficking in Persons (TIP) ...More
EJ Insight2018-12-12
With the price of Bitcoin down 80 percent from its peak a year ago, and the larger cryptocurrency market in systemic collapse, has “peak crypto” already come and gone? Perhaps, but don’t expect to see ...More
EJ Insight2018-12-11
Amid the Sino-US trade war, the United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) recently published an annual report in which it recommended that "the Congress direct the U.S. Depart ...More
EJ Insight2018-12-05
Senior US senators said on Tuesday that they are more certain than ever that Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, was responsible for the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. "You have ...More
EJ Insight2018-12-05
Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci, whose 1972 movie Last Tango in Paris shocked audiences with a notorious sex scene that came back to haunt him in his later years, has died. He was 77. Bertolucci ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-27
Mobile payment and online financial transactions have become quite common these days. As retail banks are grappling with high labor and rental costs, virtual banks should have a bigger role to play. T ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-22
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
Ma Jian, an exiled Chinese author considered a dissident by Beijing, has apparently become the latest individual to fall victim to suspected political censorship in Hong Kong. The Qingdao-born Ma, who ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-09
We have been reading numerous comments recently about a forthcoming recession and the next crisis, particularly on the tenth anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers. The question is not whether ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-02
Despite political turmoil and emerging risks at the global level, the eurozone has had two years of strong economic growth, at least by its own historically disappointing standards – and even with t ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-18
Washington wants to include a provision to deter currency manipulation in future trade deals, including with Japan, based on the currency chapter in the new deal to revamp NAFTA, US Treasury Secretary ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-15
US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Friday he told China’s central bank chief that currency issues need to be part of any further US-China trade talks and expressed his concerns about the yua ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-12
US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell hailed a “remarkably positive outlook” for the US economy that he feels is on the verge of a “historically rare” era of ultra-low unemployment and tame prices ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-03
