The coronavirus outbreak has hit banking giant HSBC (00005.HK) particularly hard, with its share price dropping to a four-year low. Hong Kong's largest bank and possibly the most profitable company re ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-09
Throughout history, crisis and human progress have often gone hand in hand. While the growing Covid-19 epidemic could strengthen nationalism and isolationism and accelerate the retreat from globalizat ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-09
... itary said. The projectiles included artillery fired from a multiple launch rocket system (MLRS) and flew up to 200 kilometers (124 miles) and reached 50 km in altitude, according to South Korea’s Joi ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-09
... e outbreak. More than half of the 50 US states have reported infections, including the first cases in Virginia, Connecticut and Iowa, as well as the US island territory of Puerto Rico. A top US health ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-09
... rs reports. Brent crude futures fell by as much as US$14.25, or 31.5 percent, to US$31.02 a barrel. That was the biggest percentage drop since Jan. 17, 1991, at the start of the first Gulf War and the ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-09
A US judge said Amazon.com Inc. is likely to succeed on a key argument of its challenge to the US Department of Defense’s decision to award cloud computing deal worth up to US$10 billion to Microsoft ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-09
The only thing that's absolutely certain about the coronavirus outbreak is that it will end. Less certain is the political fallout, but it’s highly likely to be bigger than anything seen after SARS. T ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-06
... Francisco. A helicopter flew testing kits to a cruise liner idled off the coast of California and barred from docking in San Francisco after at least 35 people developed flu-like symptoms aboard the ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-06
A British judge has decided that Dubai’s ruler ordered the abduction of two daughters and orchestrated a campaign of intimidation against his former wife, Reuters reports. Judge Andrew McFarlane said ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-06
... this year. The railway company's 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 fre ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-05
Don't you wish you're a landlord? Once you've got a property to rent out, you won't have to work anymore. You can just laze around all the days of your life while your tenants work themselves to deat ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-05
... t movement. In a statement issued on Wednesday afternoon, the Communications Authority (CA) announced the revocation of such a requirement for local free TV licensees, the Hong Kong Economic Journal r ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-05
... al economy. But a marked uptick in cases outside of China suggests the initial response to the virus may not have been rigorous enough, and is challenging investor complacency. While the long-term imp ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-05
... Wednesday. “There is a ripple effect throughout the global economy to the tune of a US$50 billion fall in exports across the world,” Pamela Coke-Hamilton, director of UNCTAD’s division of internation ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-05
Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., the world’s largest telecommunications equipment maker, pleaded not guilty in a New York federal court to new charges in a 2018 case against the company, Reuters reports. ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-05
On Monday (March 2), Britain and the European Union (EU) started negotiations on a trade deal, with the two sides having very different visions of the future. Britain left the EU on January 31 but wit ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-05
... the future. Britain left the EU on January 31 but witho ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightMark O’Neill2020年03月05日
Technological advancement and customer expectations are the twin forces driving corporate banking into a new era. An increasingly tech-savvy and demanding clientele is prompting banks to adopt new dig ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-04
... sanctions. According to an indictment filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., and unsealed on Monday, the two Chinese allegedly laundered cryptocurrency stolen by North Korean hackers between Dec ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-03
Hours after Malaysia’s change of leadership at the weekend, former prime minister Najib Razak posted a picture of himself smiling and giving a thumbs up on social media. It was tagged as a gesture of ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-03
