On Tuesday night (Wednesday morning, Hong Kong time), US President Donald Trump gave a televised speech to his nation to discuss the "security and humanitarian crisis” in the south and make the case f ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-11
US and Chinese officials are working on arrangements for higher-level trade talks after mid-level officials this week discussed US demands that would require structural changes in China to address iss ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-11
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles has agreed to a settlement worth about US$800 million to resolve claims from the US Justice Department and state of California that it used illegal software that produced fal ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-11
US President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to use emergency powers to bypass Congress to pay for a wall on the US-Mexico border, as a partial government shutdown tied to the issue stretched into ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-11
Norway is considering whether to join other western nations in excluding China’s Huawei Technologies from building part of the Nordic country’s new 5G telecoms infrastructure. “We share the same conce ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-10
US President Donald Trump stormed out of talks with Democratic congressional leaders on Wednesday over funding for a border wall with Mexico and reopening the government, complaining the meeting in th ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-10
China has pledged to purchase “a substantial amount” of agricultural, energy and manufactured goods and services from the United States, the US Trade Representative’s office said on Wednesday after tr ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-10
The fresh round of vice-ministerial-level trade talks between US and China had a good start this week. Chinese Vice Premier Liu He made a surprise appearance at the meeting, sending a positive signal ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-09
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
The United States and China will continue trade talks in Beijing for an unscheduled third day, amid signs of progress on issues including purchases of US farm and energy commodities and increased acce ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-09
Global currency markets witnessed a number of big market-moving events in 2018 which created plenty of opportunities for investors. Sterling was one of the headline stories of the year with Brexit neg ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-08
World Bank Group president Jim Yong Kim unexpectedly resigned on Monday, more than three years before his term ends in 2022, amid differences with the Trump administration over climate change and the ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-08
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is visiting China at the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping, Chinese and North Korean state media reported on Tuesday. Kim left for China on a private train on ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-08
Beijing and Washington could reach a trade deal that “we can live with”, US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said on Monday as dozens of officials from the world’s two largest economies resumed talks in ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-08
Trade talks with China are going very well, US President Donald Trump said on Sunday, adding that weakness in the Chinese economy gives Beijing a reason to work toward a deal, Reuters reports. "I thin ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-07
