... aditional peak season beginning in February, with fewer service providers hiring additional staff, said Paul Leung, chairman of Hong Kong Inbound Travel Association Ltd. He said most MICE companies a ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-05
... ional off-peak season for tourists, so what you see may not be what you get. We may see fewer Hongkongers going abroad for the Easter break or Labor day holiday now that they feel much more comfortabl ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-04
... above the peak before the 2008 financial crisis and against the average level of 72 percent. That shows the US market is fairly expensive. This article appeared in the Hong Kong Economic Journal on Ap ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-30
... ad in the Peak (official residence of the garrison commander); Justice Drive Barracks (Queen's Lines) in Admiralty; and Bonham Towers military quarters in Mid-Levels. In Kowloon, the force has four si ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-27
... n the off-peak season, because you can walk around the city with ease, something that became rare in the past few years, when gamblers, stock speculators and others flocked to its casinos. But all thi ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-24
... st year’s peak as the slump extended from the VIP segment into the mass market. Challenges include a prevailing anti-extravagance mindset among wealthy mainland Chinese, a widening smoking ban and po ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-23
... price is peaking, because the developer was so keen to offload the units at no premium to the price of flats in the area. Big developers are major participants in the property market, and they have m ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-23
... at of the peak turnover on US markets. However, the breathtaking rally has prompted China's top securities regulator to tighten margin trading rules. The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-21
... d hit the peak of 28,031 points one month later. Therefore, it could fall back to the range of 25,854 and 26,368 points, an ideal band for investors to re-enter the market. The benchmark has tested a ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-21
... to reach peak crude oil output in the second quarter of this year, he said. Batchelor expects oil prices to rise to between US$60 and US$70 per barrel by the end of the year. On the corporate level, ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-21
Hong Kong's Town Planning Board is said to have granted approval to the owner of the century-old mansion at 27 Lugard Road in The Peak to turn it into a monument hotel, but with several conditions. Th ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-21
... ack after peaking at HK$175.4 in 2007, and New World Development (00017.HK) has been lagging behind since hitting a high of HK$24.88 in 1997. In the banking sector, HSBC Holdings Plc (00005.HK) has dr ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-17
... d in past peaks. The Shanghai Composite is trading at 15.8 times, compared with a 2009 peak of 23 times, while the MSCI China H Index of Chinese stocks listed in Hong Kong is valued at 12.2 times esti ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-16
... et hits a peak. Historical study shows that fund-raising activities usually have close link with stock market trend. Simply speaking, the market is very likely to level off as huge amount of capital i ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-16
... rs at its peak to four. In the process, SmarTone, once the third-largest operator in terms of subscriber numbers, has become the smallest, trailing behind PCCW Ltd. (00008.HK), Hutchison Telecommunica ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-15
... et, and a peaking property market. The recently announced “once-a-week visit" scheme, which has replaced the multi-entry visas from Monday, may help in the crackdown on rampant parallel trading. That ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-15
... the 2007 peak of 32,000 points. Financial Secretary John Tsang said last week that the Hong Kong market has not followed a pattern similar to the mainland's A-shares, and warned investors to be wary ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-14
... after the peak in the 1970s, Europeans remain the biggest drinkers in the world, according to the report. -- Contact us at [email protected] CG ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-14
... t hit its peak after the government unveiled the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Stock Connect. It is said that HKEx might merge with its mainland rivals for a public listing, which would create the world’s larges ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-10
... stocks at peak level usually would rush to sell at no loss or small profit. But investors should be more patient and continue to hold good stocks until they reach the peak -- unless they are holding s ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-09
