In his budget speech last Wednesday, Hong Kong's Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po earmarked an extra HK$50 billion to boost innovation and promote technology industries, on top of funds set aside l ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-05
China unveiled its largest rise in defense spending in three years on Monday, setting an 8.1 percent growth target compared to 2017, fueling the country’s ambitious military modernization program amid ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-05
While the Lunar New Year holiday last month gave us an opportunity to get together with our families and friends and have a good time, it also provided us with a chance to reflect on our wasteful cons ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-05
We have been saying recently that investors should prepare for greater volatility as the world's major central banks start to tighten the spigot of liquidity that has supported not only asset prices, ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-05
Last year was a strong one for our MSCI Asia ex-Japan benchmark, which rose 40 percent. Despite this strength, its longer term performance lags most other global indices (as well as medium term earnin ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-02
After years of paralysis during the debt crisis that began in 2009, the European Union seems to have regained some momentum. In France last year, Emmanuel Macron and his La République En Marche! won t ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-02
Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po on Wednesday said over HK$50 billion (US$6.4 billion) would be spent to boost the city’s long-term technology and innovation development, up from HK$10 billion the ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-28
The government will not hand out cash to all citizens as some people have been urging it to do, although the budget surplus for the current fiscal year is said to be as much as HK$140 billion, the Hon ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-27
Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po has made it clear that the administration wants to utilize the budget surplus to build up savings for the city's future needs while also spending some of the money ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-26
It's reported that the approval rate for initial public offerings (IPOs) on China's A-share market has tumbled to 36 percent this year from 78 percent previously. Many applicants have waited for three ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-26
US semiconductor testing company Xcerra Corp. said a US national security panel had blocked its US$580-million sale to a Chinese state-backed semiconductor investment fund, the latest such deal to be ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-23
Snap's co-founder and chief executive Evan Spiegel received US$637.8 million as total compensation last year after the firm went public, the third-highest annual payout ever received by a company CEO, ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-23
Fosun (00656.HK) is taking control of Lanvin, France’s oldest surviving couture label, in the Chinese conglomerate’s most prominent fashion investment yet, Reuters reports. Fosun, which owns French le ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-23
Alipay and WeChat Pay, China's big two mobile payment giants, both entered the Hong Kong market last year, triggering a mobile payment war among major operators. To fend off the competition, local e-p ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-21
