In an article carried Tuesday, we outlined the views of JP Nicols, a prominent bank innovation consultation expert, on the future of banking industry in China and Hong Kong. Now, in the second part of ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-07
A rout in global equities deepened in Asia on Tuesday as inflation worries gripped financial markets, sending US stock futures sinking further into the red after Wall Street suffered its biggest decli ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-06
The wet market along Graham Street offered a plethora of vivid scenes in the afternoon light. Next to walls of wooden boards wrapped in white cloth, colorful fruits and vegetables of all shapes and si ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-05
In Hong Kong, some people buy flats not because of expectations of price appreciation but as a hedge to reduce risks. They are no different from investors who sell their stocks with handsome profits b ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-05
Whose side are you on? We now have such rancorous politics that Hong Kong people are always having to choose sides. Some people say I have become a supporter of the establishment camp. They are wrong ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-01
Whose side are you on? We now have such rancorous polit ...全文
今日信報時事評論STRAIGHT-SHOOTING褚簡寧 Michael Chugani2018年02月01日
Nothing is worse than visiting a doctor during the flu season. Apart from being made to wait in a long queue, which will only further dampen your spirits, only few doctors know how to cure you within ...More
EJ Insight2018-01-29
US President Donald Trump said he ultimately wants the dollar to be strong, lifting the greenback and contradicting comments made by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin a day earlier. “The dollar is goi ...More
EJ Insight2018-01-26
According to media reports, the World Health Organization (WHO) is set to officially classify "gaming disorder", i.e. addiction to online video games, as a kind of mental illness in the UN agency's 11 ...More
EJ Insight2018-01-15
More than 20 years after Hong Kong's return to Chinese rule, a planned "co-location arrangement" in relation to a cross-border express rail link is causing the biggest ripple of shock in Hong Kong und ...More
EJ Insight2018-01-12
In February 2017, I wrote an optimistic commentary called "The Global Economy’s Surprising Resilience." The piece came as a surprise to those who saw only bleak prospects for Western countries, not ...More
EJ Insight2018-01-12
Never has a piece of legislation labeled as both a tax cut and a reform been received with as much disapproval and derision as the bill passed by the US Congress and signed into law by President Donal ...More
EJ Insight2018-01-03
This is the second part of my 2018 forecast series. Basically, I see a stronger greenback, rising global inflation and the bull market of US Treasuries coming to an end. Over last two years or so, the ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-15
At this time of the year, I’ll give my 10 predictions for 2018, covering the macro economy, interest rates, currencies, stock markets and housing markets over next three weeks. For next year, the glob ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-08
You don't know how big a hotel is until you cannot locate its check-in counter. Yes, it took me quite a while to figure out where I should get the room key in Parisian Macau, where I stayed last weeke ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-01
Writing about oil prices is always risky. In January 2015, I suggested that oil prices would not continue to fall, and even predicted that they would “finish the year higher than they were when it beg ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-21
Only a bunch of deluded bureaucrats and equally misguided democrats could possibly have expressed concern over the fact that a (admittedly worrying) speech by Basic Law Committee chairman Li Fei was b ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-17
Shortly before Madrid’s official announcement invoking special constitutional powers to impose direct rule on Catalonia, the Catalan legislature unilaterally declared independence from Spain. The sudd ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-03
