China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) Chairman Liu Shiyu recently invited retail investor representative (also an economist) Han Zhiguo to lunch in the CSRC canteen. After the lunch, Han revea ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-31
A vessel built for Hong Kong's Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) has earned the title of being the world's largest container ship in terms of carrying capacity. The new ship, measuring 400 meters ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-29
HNA Group, parent of the Chinese carrier Hainan Airlines, had kept a low profile until the end of last year, when the conglomerate must have realized that given its size and sway, media scrutiny was a ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-22
Walt Disney Co. reported a smaller-than-expected rise in quarterly revenue and lower profit from its cable TV operation as it grapples with higher costs at its cash-cow sports network ESPN. The world' ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-10
It is wrong to blame Hong Kong for causing smog in nearby Guangdong province when the wind comes from the south and blows toward the north, according to a former director of the Hong Kong Observatory. ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-02
European voters, looking at Donald Trump’s chaotic presidency in the United States and the hard road ahead for a post-Brexit Britain, may be turning away from right-wing populists such as Marine Le Pe ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-06
The Ching Ming festival is always a sad day because it reminds us of our deceased loved ones. However, for people who can't afford a niche for their late parents or grandparents in a private columbari ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-06
The 2017 chief executive election ended with an anticlimax: the highly popular former financial secretary John Tsang lost by a huge margin, whereas former chief secretary Carrie Lam, who had been lagg ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-03
We’ve discussed several factors that may trigger a U-turn in Hong Kong’s housing market and concluded that home prices may hit a peak and fall off in third or fourth quarter of this year. But even if ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-30
One of the most cited statistics about China may well be the number of Chinese who have been lifted out of poverty over the last 35 years. At over 800 million, it is a huge number – and an extraordina ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-29
Last week, Dutch voters dealt a blow to far-right populism in their country’s general election. With the Euroskeptic, anti-immigration Party for Freedom (PVV), led by Geert Wilders, having managed to ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-22
Over the past month or so, home prices in a number of major Chinese cities have surged 30 percent. The buying frenzy started right after the Lunar New Year holiday and is quickly spreading from Beijin ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-21
For many people, the prospect of investing in residential property in Germany has never really stacked up as a viable option. Germans seem happy with long leases that allow housing without the need fo ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-17
Mark Tucker, the chief executive of Hong Kong-based insurer AIA, will become the first outsider to serve as chairman of HSBC Holdings. Tucker started his career as a professional footballer, making ap ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-15
The US dollar fell back after hitting a peak of 6.9895 against the yuan in the offshore market and has temporarily found support near the 100-day moving average. Beijing has tried numerous ways to ste ...More
EJ Insight2017-01-26
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order for construction of a wall on the border with Mexico, pushing ahead with a key pledge made during his election campaign. Outlining a t ...More
EJ Insight2017-01-26
China's holdings of US Treasuries fell for a sixth straight month in November as the world's second-largest economy continued to use its reserves to support the yuan. Data released in Washington Wedne ...More
EJ Insight2017-01-19
The Hong Kong Gifted Education Summit and Exhibition last December attracted educators and policymakers from the United States, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Israel, Japan, South Korea, mainland China ...More
EJ Insight2017-01-13
China’s foreign exchange regulator has tightened its control over foreign exchange purchases in a bid to curb capital outflows. The State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) is stepping up scrut ...More
EJ Insight2017-01-04
A few major trends evolved in the fund industry this year, and some of them may have important implications for the coming year. 1. Northbound funds have registered sales that are 80 times those of so ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-30
