A partner of a private equity firm with Chinese state backing was found guilty in a US court of insider trading related to the attempted acquisition of Lattice Semiconductor Corp., Reuters reports, ci ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-25
Chinese truck-hailing service platform Manbang has raised US$1.9 billion from a group of investors including Japan’s Softbank Group and Alphabet's venture capital fund CapitalG. Manbang, formally know ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-25
Earlier this month the Philippines' President Rodrigo Duterte paid a flying visit to Hong Kong. During his short stay, Duterte not only wowed the hundreds of Filipino domestic workers who had flocked ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-23
Cryptocurrency funds were down 29.2 percent in March amid an ongoing slump caused by increased scrutiny from global regulators of the virtual assets, Reuters reports, citing a new index launched by da ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-19
A decade after the global financial crisis, policymakers worldwide are still assessing how best to prevent bank failures from tanking the economy again. Two recent publications – one from the US Depar ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-18
In February, Forbes published its first-ever list of cryptocurrencies’ richest people. The top ten were each worth around US$1 billion, while the wealthiest – an American blockchain innovator named Ch ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-16
Elon Musk, chief executive of electric-car maker Tesla Inc., said the company will be profitable in the third and fourth quarters of this year and will not have to raise any money from investors, Reut ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-16
My two momentum-based mock portfolios have underperformed the Tracker Fund of Hong Kong (02800.HK) in the first quarter due to an extremely volatile market. Amid the market turbulence, many stocks in ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-13
As Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg prepares for testimony before US lawmakers on the firm's data privacy scandal, a group calling itself Faceblock has called on netizens to send a strong message to the CEO ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-10
In an article published on Monday, we presented the views of Jeremy Allaire, co-founder and CEO of blockchain-based payments startup Circle on the rationale behind the company's decision to set up its ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-10
Recent turbulence in stock markets can be attributed to “gray rhinos”. “Gray rhino” has become a catchword since early last year, after American writer Michele Wucker published her best-selling book, ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-09
Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak announced the dissolution of parliament on Friday, paving the way for a tough election where the embattled leader will face off against his old mentor and the cou ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-06
