... or around two-thirds of global output. China imported a total of 1.12 billion tons of iron ore in 2021, down slightly from 1.17 billion tons in 2020, according to government data. The drop in demand w ...More
EJ Insight2022-07-04
... country, two systems” framework, the first time he had left mainland China since Covid-19’s arrival two and a half years ago. The 25th anniversary is hugely symbolic since the Basic Law – the region’ ...More
EJ Insight2022-07-04
... luding in two new books that challenge the policy orthodoxy of recent decades. Two swallows do not make a summer, but they do give reason to wonder if the weather is about to change. In The Price of T ...More
EJ Insight2022-07-01
... the last two weeks – should be regarded as a dead-cat bounce, rather than the usual buy-the-dip opportunity. Though the current global situation confronts us with many questions, there is no real rid ...More
EJ Insight2022-06-30
... ldren and two large dogs and rented a house in southwest England. Her husband works as a project manager for a NGO. Because they had friends in Hong Kong in jail, they decided to leave. But they could ...More
EJ Insight2022-06-30
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今日信報時事評論EJ InsightMark O’Neill2022年06月30日
... ntine and two days at home. Think of how many people missed their Japanese vacations, especially when the yen was that low. The mere thought of travel relaxation fueled the Hong Kong stock market yest ...More
EJ Insight2022-06-29
... s. In the two years before the pandemic struck, implied volatility on one-month (1M) at-the-money (ATM) copper options traded in a historically low range from 13.8% to 24.7%. In the early stages of th ...More
EJ Insight2022-06-29
... tion is networked “smart cities” and urban hubs. What is often forgotten is that such systems are highly resource-intensive. And, as detached from traditional rural livelihoods as they might seem, cit ...More
EJ Insight2022-06-29
... behest of two of Boris Johnson’s coterie of self-serving ministers, resigned from their posts as Non-Permanent Judges of Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal lest “they appear to endorse an administratio ...More
EJ Insight2022-06-27
... the next two decades. But, with average annual global greenhouse-gas emissions reaching their highest levels in human history between 2010 and 2019, we are simply not doing enough to limit global war ...More
EJ Insight2022-06-23
... llapse of two so-called StableCoins. While some of the more conservative institutions are eschewing cryptocurrencies altogether, citing concerns about volatility; price opacity and regulatory risk, th ...More
EJ Insight2022-06-23
... more than two years. WWPKG executive director Yuen Chun-ning told local media that he would not expect great responses because no Korean tours from his agency have departed since the country opened up ...More
EJ Insight2022-06-22
... nounced a two-year pause on pending new tariffs on imports of solar panels. That’s good for both the environment and America’s ability to cope with higher global energy prices. But the US still has th ...More
EJ Insight2022-06-21
... take. For two decades after the fall of the Iron Curtain, the US was clearly number one. But then came disastrously misguided wars in the Middle East, the 2008 financial crash, rising inequality, the ...More
EJ Insight2022-06-20
It has been two years since Hong Kong launched 5G services. Though the network coverage in the territory has reached over 90% of the population, not many customers switched to it yet. Leung Chung-yin, ...More
EJ Insight2022-06-20
... inted out two decades ago, the outcomes of modern warfare depend not only on whose army wins, but also on “whose story wins.” America’s careful disclosure of intelligence about Russia’s military plans ...More
EJ Insight2022-06-17
... Are these two bookends really complements or substitutes? Banking as a Service (BaaS) offers a new route to market for banks. It empowers them to attract new customers that might otherwise be unprofit ...More
EJ Insight2022-06-17
