... d off the New Year with a 10 per cent gain, the best January since 2012. It outperformed most equities markets, as shown in our Mandatory Provident Fund accounts where we are HK$15,000 richer on avera ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-08
... orse, its new “pilot climate scenario analysis” exercise with six major banks is likely to understate both the risks of climate change and the opportunities offered by the transition to net-zero emiss ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-08
... stitute a new trend, it should be a massive positive story. British economic commentators, however, seem barely to have noticed it. To be sure, the highest London house prices actually peaked before t ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-08
... ties. The newly created Pandemic Fund is an additional tool to fill critical gaps by helping channel much-needed financial support to developing countries as they shore up prevention and response meas ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-07
... h it. The new installation will not only increase the operation costs but also “cannibalise” the return from energy saving. Hong Kong’s engineering scientists have been working hard to help corporates ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-07
... d 342,000 new jobs. Watershed management has also improved, with drip-irrigation systems quadrupling to 542,000 hectares. Since 2004, Rwanda has been developing and implementing its Strategic Plan for ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-06
... count for new civilization-shaking threats like climate change. The grand narrative of 1870-2010 was about technological triumph, coupled with social-organizational failure. The post-2010 grand narrat ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-06
... 6 – and a new National Security Strategy lays out all the diplomatic, economic, technological, and military instruments that Japan will use to protect itself in the years ahead. Most notably, Japan wi ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-06
... cisco and New York. It’s instead a low-intensity yet perennial mixture of bureaucratic obstacles, soft bigotry of those peddling tropes and stereotypes, and a clash of cultural norms and values. Lo an ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-03
... the Lunar New Year celebrations, we find ourselves facing a challenging landscape. Inflation is rising rapidly, Singapore, for example, has introduced a higher rate of GST, and in the tech sector we’r ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-02
... e Chinese New Year. This year, however, is a bit more interesting because there are pull and push factors in play that make the future home price even more unpredictable. Those who witnessed the stron ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-01
... rkets and new technologies to fix everything, while the other insists that public policy must play a leading role. Yes, this caricature is far too crude. But recognizing that it is how many politician ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-01
... urated in news media – most of which they do not pay for (at least not in any traditional sense). In many countries, people also receive medical services apparently for free. Even America’s notoriousl ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-31
... ship of a new governor. For the Japanese yen, this means its recent rally is likely to stall for some time. Hence we expect the USD-JPY pair to be range bound at around 130 in the near term. Yet uncer ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-31
... ts to the new TSMC factory. Delta Electronics has bought a plant with 11,200 square metres in Plano, on the outskirts of Dallas, Texas. It supplies equipment to auto manufacturers. It chose Texas beca ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-31
