Live pig auction price in Hong Kong surged to HK$1,303 per 100 catties on Tuesday, up over 30 percent from April, according to data released by the city's health department. More than 90 percent of Ho ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-30
The leaders of the United States and Canada expressed optimism that they could reach new NAFTA deal by a Friday deadline, Reuters reports. Under pressure, Canada rejoined the talks to modernize the 24 ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-30
US economic growth was a bit stronger than initially thought in the second quarter, notching its best performance in nearly four years and putting the economy on track to hit the Trump administration’ ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-30
US President Donald Trump said on Twitter China hacked the emails of 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton but did not offer any evidence or further information, Reuters reports. “Hil ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-29
The world has a demand problem, and it is dealing with it all wrong. Rather than allowing itself to be harmed by other countries’ problematic policies, China must work to create its own demand by maki ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-29
In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, some economists argued that the United States, and perhaps the global economy, was suffering from "secular stagnation,” an idea first conceived in the af ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-29
US Defense Secretary James Mattis said the military has no plans yet to suspend any more major military exercises with South Korea, amid a breakdown in diplomacy with North Korea over its nuclear weap ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-29
Canada’s top trade negotiator joined her Mexican and US counterparts in Washington in a bid to remain part of a revamped trilateral North American trade pact, as US officials expressed optimism a deal ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-29
US President Donald Trump accused Google’s search engine of promoting negative news articles and hiding “fair media” coverage of him, vowing to address the situation without providing evidence or givi ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-29
Japan said North Korea still poses a dire threat to its security despite a halt to ballistic missile tests and a pledge by leader Kim Jong-un to denuclearize the Korean peninsula, Reuters reports. “No ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-28
The United States economy is doing well. But the next recession – and there is always another recession – could be very bad. The US Bureau of Economic Analysis estimates that GDP growth in the second ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-28
Beijing's ambitious development strategy, the Belt and Road Initiative, which involves land and sea connections from China to Europe linking dozens of countries on three continents, is enthralling in ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-28
US President Donald Trump called off a visit to North Korea by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo after the latter received a belligerent letter from a senior North Korean official just hours after the tr ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-28
The United States and Mexico agreed to overhaul the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), putting pressure on Canada to agree to new terms on auto trade and dispute settlement rules to remain p ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-28
Iranian lawyers will ask the International Court of Justice on Monday to order the United States to lift sanctions ordered by the Trump administration against Tehran, Reuters reports. The lawsuit file ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-27
US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross has appointed a former federal prosecutor, Roscoe Howard, to monitor Chinese telecoms equipment maker ZTE for compliance on US export controls, Reuters reports. Howar ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-27
