On November 14, remarkably, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the consumer price index was unchanged in October. To be clear, that means the level of the CPI was unchanged; its rate of ...More
EJ Insight2023-11-21
With clockwork inevitability, the proposal by a number of US lawmakers to introduce the Hong Kong Sanctions Act provoked a locust swarm of vitriolic protests. The idea of sanctioning 49 Hong Kong offi ...More
EJ Insight2023-11-21
According to the government projection, the average life expectancy of men and women in Hong Kong in 2022 was 81.3 and 87.2 years respectively, the highest in the world. A paper published in The Lance ...More
EJ Insight2023-11-20
Last week the British people were stunned to learn that their disgraced Prime Minister David Cameron had returned to public office after seven years in the wilderness, to become Foreign Secretary. Con ...More
EJ Insight2023-11-20
There’s no doubt that today we’re in the grip of a remarkable and quite unprecedented societal shift that is radically changing the geography of work. A shift that, by enabling people to choose to wor ...More
EJ Insight2023-11-20
... bulldozed to make way for a new bus system. Authorities gave prior notice and an indemnity to help with the loss of business, but did not address the real problem: the lack of trading space. Street ve ...More
EJ Insight2023-11-17
Our continued dependence on fossil fuels is damaging our health and pushing global temperatures to record levels. The interlinked climate calamities of the past few years – extreme weather events, foo ...More
EJ Insight2023-11-16
... h in 2022 to 72.8 billion yuan (US$10 billion). The figure has been declining by double digits every month since May this year. In a survey this September of member companies by the Japanese Chamber o ...More
EJ Insight2023-11-16
... h in 2022 to 72.8 billion yuan (US$10 billion). The fig ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightMark O’Neill2023年11月16日
Perhaps we should not be too jealous of Macau residents who are going to receive 10,000 patacas from the government for the 17th year. Announced yesterday by Chief Executive Ho Lat Seng in his last po ...More
EJ Insight2023-11-15
As the world was recovering from the pandemic, inflation shot up, owing to widespread disruptions to global supply chains and sudden changes in patterns of demand. While the demand shifts might have p ...More
EJ Insight2023-11-15
... by the historically aggressive rate hikes of recent years will be around for longer than previously thought. This development has also meant that bonds have once again become the subject of interest a ...More
EJ Insight2023-11-15
Fixed income is once again firmly in focus for asset allocators, with a study of Asian and European gatekeepers revealing strong expected demand for the asset class over the coming 12 months. The find ...More
EJ Insight2023-11-14
The Google antitrust trial has finally shown just how much the world’s dominant search engine is willing – and able – to pay to be the default on smartphones and other devices: $26 billion in 2021 alo ...More
EJ Insight2023-11-14
