Judging by the growing number of companies vowing to reduce their greenhouse-gas emissions to zero these days, it may seem like the corporate world is finally taking the climate crisis seriously. Acco ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-03
... inwashing by the West’. Legitimate grievances such as housing inequalities, land shortages, deeply rooted concerns over this city’s competitiveness on the world stage, and a fundamental sense of disco ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-03
... tensions by placing nuclear weapons in Cuba and bringing the world to the brink of nuclear war. As US economic influence erodes, its ability to prevent foreign militaries from establishing a presence ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-02
The hour-long phone call between Xi Jinping and Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s wartime president, followed by Beijing’s appointment of a senior diplomat to be dispatched to Ukraine and other countries ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-02
Hopes that China will meet or even exceed 5% real gross domestic product (GDP) growth this year are warranted. The key driver will be consumption, fueled by excess household savings and a pro-business ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-02
... g to 2.2% by 2030, down sharply from the 3.5% average rate in the 2000s. The Bank foresees a “prolonged period of weakness” for the global economy following further declines in investment and producti ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-28
... acterised by less credit. My optimistic interpretation is that we are in a painful and necessary correction following a decade of central bank largesse which distorted all asset classes, including rea ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-28
... dominated by oil, gold, and cocoa. This means that commodity-market fluctuations can wreak havoc on their finances, rendering even recently restructured debt unsustainable. A 50% drop in the price of ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-28
... welcomed by those who believed in its future and its continued integration with China. Thanks to the security crackdown, we now have a less disruptive system, especially in the Legislative Council, w ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-27
... replaced by low-paid, insecure work. Entire regions can experience long-lasting decline, which is what happened in many advanced economies. Having lived through this, many workers voted accordingly. ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-27
... di Arabia by the Chief Executive, it was a much needed and timely reaffirmation of the government’s acute awareness of Hong Kong’s current optics problem and the need to forge new relationships. These ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-27
... picture. By the way, has the SAR government forgotten that President Xi is a fan of Manchester City, not Manchester United? Perhaps the government would need to hold the purse strings in case the eco ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-26
... eiterated by Christopher Hui, Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury, during a visit to London last week. He was there to promote opportunities in Hong Kong’s financial services. An estimat ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-26
... reasuries by 100bps resulted in a 6% rise in the US dollar. The dollar’s positive sensitivity declined somewhat during the COVID sell-off in March 2020. Euro area credit growth: Likely to slow further ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-26
... n Bird ID by Cornell Lab,近日新增鳥叫識別功能,以人工智能(AI)辨別六大洲逾6000 ...全文
今日信報財經新聞StartupBeat 創科鬥室2023年04月26日
... t created by human activity. Why does this matter now, when the world has already emerged from the pandemic? We believe extreme events of since 2020 represent catalysts that will drive a new era of ac ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-25
... take made by the Bosnia and Herzogovina Ice Hockey Association with regard to playing the national anthem. The actual miscreants are the Hong Kong Sports Federation and Olympic Committee, the SF&O ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-25
... ocumented by the Office of the Communications Authority (OCA) include the deployment of smart hospital systems in CUHK Medical Centre and Tseung Kwan O Hospital, as well as traffic monitoring systems. ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-25
... be caused by human error (as in Chernobyl in 1986) or a natural disaster (as in Fukushima, Japan, in 2011). It could be caused by a terrorist attack, plane crash, or simply an overlooked weakness in o ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-24