... y’s trade surplus widened to US$60.1 billion in December from US$54.1 billion in November. Last year’s weak Chinese exports and even weaker imports led to a record US$594.5 billion annual trade surplu ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-13
... plenty of surplus in their external accounts, so their currencies will be stable, giving the central banks enough room to adjust interest rates and support growth. This will be an important theme for ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-25
... op in its surplus which was nearly HK$1.24 billion last year, down from HK$2.5 billion a year earlier and the lowest since 2012 when it was just HK$67 million. Adding to the lower surplus was poor ret ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-23
... the trade surplus and stable economic fundamentals. I hope investors were not misled by Zhou’s remarks, otherwise they may have already incurred losses. This article appeared in the Hong Kong Economic ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-18
... xport its surplus productivity and raise the international status of the renminbi. Following the Gwadar Port development program in Pakistan, the proposed transoceanic railway in South America and the ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-15
... turned to surplus from deficit. But developed economies like the G7 countries became net import countries with deficits in their current accounts. Until 2007, the emerging markets and the developed on ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-14
... ion trade surplus and more than US$100 billion foreign direct investment. Given the nation's robust economic growth, there is no basis for long-term depreciation of the currency, the official added. I ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-11
Ocean Park Hong Kong saw a drop in visitor numbers for the second consecutive year, resulting in a 53 percent drop in its net surplus to HK$45.2 million. Revenue remained at last fiscal year's level o ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-26
... budgetary surplus. She found the scheme "pointless" because it showed that the government had no good use for its surplus and had not even thought of supporting genetic tests for children. Each test ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-21
The Hong Kong government's fiscal surplus for the current financial year may slide to HK$40 billion from HK$72.8 billion in the previous period, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu estimated. In a report Friday ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-13
... es edible surplus food from the restaurant industry and prevents wastage. The food is recycled as hot meals and served to the underprivileged. The money collected from donations is used for daily oper ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-10
... ell those surplus IPO shares. It’s easy to sell these shares under current market conditions. But once the IPOs are no longer in short supply, brokers will have to shoulder a bigger risk. In addition, ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-09
... mounts of surplus cash. As there are several thousand VC firms, ranging from big to small, competition has become fierce in the industry. The sector requires some breakthrough. Early-stage investments ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-09
... ed. Trade surplus widened in October to US$61.64 billion from US$60.3 billion in the previous month. China's Commerce Ministry said last week that exports are likely to see little increase in 2015, wh ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-09
... the labor surplus that supported China’s economic miracle giving way to a severe shortage that depresses growth. Equally problematic is China’s alarming gender imbalance. Families’ preference that the ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-05
... ign trade surplus. By contrast, if China allows free capital flow and begins to post huge trade deficits, these internal financial issues could trigger a currency crisis, which could lead to heavy sel ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-31
... to store surplus funds with it. -- Contact us at [email protected] RC/FL ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-23
... est trade surplus in the world, Chinese asset prices and the renminbi exchange rate will just have to rise. This may be a benign “tail risk” to have. -- Contact us at [email protected] CG ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-22
... ration of surplus rural labor to urban areas, a surplus that will soon be exhausted. This, too, is true. But it ignores the fact that there still is a huge reservoir of urban labor in the informal sec ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-16
... ing trade surplus in recent quarters (due to price cuts in imported commodities) could hedge the potential impact of money outflows. Has the depreciation of the renminbi helped to increase China’s com ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-10
