... ass shares. Owners of shares carrying WVRs have enhanced voting rights which allow them to maintain control over the listed company even if their shareholding is below the threshold normally needed to ...More
EJ Insight2020-04-29
The COVID-19 pandemic has hit EU member states hard, and will continue to confront the bloc with significant economic challenges. Yet, from a macroeconomic perspective, Europe’s policy response so far ...More
EJ Insight2020-04-28
Since bottoming out at the end of March, equity markets in most regions of the world have gained between 20% and 30%. Credit spreads in investment grade and especially in high yield have tightened con ...More
EJ Insight2020-04-28
... ure (CSDl). The participating councillors have prepared well for the meeting and raised very specific questions. One pointed out that the data should be connected to the geographic location, so that d ...More
EJ Insight2020-04-28
The People's Bank of China (PBoC) announced a further cut to the 1 year loan prime rate, one of its key interest rates, from 4.05% to 3.85%. This further loosening of monetary policy demonstrates that ...More
EJ Insight2020-04-27
雲頂香港(00678) 寄發予股東有關下列建議的通函1. 重選董事；及2. 購回股份及發行股份的一般性授權. ...全文
Although the COVID-19 pandemic feels unprecedented, it is not the first time that exogenous forces have radically disrupted civilian life. The most common parallel is to the American mobilization for ...More
EJ Insight2020-04-24
This month marked the 30th anniversary of the promulgation of Hong Kong’s Basic Law. While the coronavirus outbreak has subdued events planned to mark the occasion, Hong Kong’s manifold challenges in ...More
EJ Insight2020-04-23
The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the greatest global challenges in generations. Governments and monetary authorities are correctly using every policy lever at their disposal to prevent a grave public-h ...More
EJ Insight2020-04-22
... s pandemic. If another person earnestly implores me to ‘stay safe’ or ‘stay healthy’ or, far worse, urges me ‘not to despair’, I may well be forced into doing something I will almost certainly regret. ...More
EJ Insight2020-04-20
Declining coronavirus infection rates and plans to begin easing lockdown measures in some parts of the developed world have provided a ray of hope after weeks of unrelenting gloom. But, for many devel ...More
EJ Insight2020-04-16
Last week, the Eurogroup of eurozone finance ministers, having acknowledged that nobody is to blame for the COVID-19 crisis, agreed to a deal to mitigate its economic fallout. The agreement includes € ...More
EJ Insight2020-04-16
In Australia, whenever something resembling a crisis comes along, the housing doomsayers will come scurrying out of their dens with proclamations of “Repent! The end is near!”. And for the longest tim ...More
EJ Insight2020-04-15
To mask or not to mask? That is the question. Covid-19 has woken the rest of the world to a practice with which the people of Hong Kong are very familiar. The SARS epidemic brought home the utility of ...More
EJ Insight2020-04-14
