Some analysts view the 8-9 price-earnings multiple offered by the benchmark Hang Seng Index as evidence that stocks are cheap now in Hong Kong. However, not everyone agrees with this notion. Among th ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-31
A High Court judge rejected a request from the Department of Justice to compel media outfits to submit unedited footage of the alleged beating of a pro-democracy activist during the Occupy protests in ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-09
As the Lunar New Year approaches, the queues at the bank are getting longer for people who want to get fresh dollar notes to give away during the festive season. Giving away lai see is such a heartwar ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-03
The Hong Kong and mainland equity markets have seen little excitement before the Lunar New Year holidays. Investors should adopt a strategy that is both defensive and offensive to outperform the bench ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-02
The Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Authority has filed a writ with District Court demanding that Asia Television Ltd. pay HK$416,000 (US$53,214) in employer's MPF contributions for October last year ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-20
The Hang Seng Index is down 9 percent, or more than 2,000 points, in the first six trading days of the year while the China Enterprise Index is off 11.8 percent. That means most investors have suffere ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-12
The Hong Kong market has been fairly volatile in the second half of this year. Investors are waiting for the first US rate hike in nearly nine years. I hope stocks enjoy a good uptick in the latter ha ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-15
In every boom market, a super player emerges with enough cash to spend on eye-popping deals. The Carrian Group in the 1980s, China Everbright during the red-chip frenzy and PCCW at the height of the i ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-03
It’s hard to find an attractive place to invest amid terrorist attacks in France, a doubling of deposits for margin trading by Chinese stockbrokers, falling US consumer confidence and a sluggish econo ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-17
HKT Trust and HKT Ltd. (06823.HK) said it moved early to counter potential pricing pressure on its mobile services amid falling subscriber numbers in the industry. Managing director Alex Arena said Ho ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-04
Hong Kong Television Entertainment Co. Ltd., the free-to-air television service operator under PCCW Ltd. (00008.HK), will launch station ViuTV in April next year, the Hong Kong Economic Journal report ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-22
HKBN Ltd. (01310.HK) has partnered with LeTV to offer some subscribers broadcasts of English Premier League soccer matches for an average HK$272 per month. The first 5,000 users of the Hong Kong broad ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-09
Leshi Internet Information & Technology Corp. (Letv, 300104.CN) is slashing a planned private placement to 4.8 billion yuan (US$752 million) amid China's volatile stock market. The company is plan ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-25
Hong Kong football fans have watched the broadcast rights for the English Premier League (EPL) change hands from one local TV station to another in the past 10 years. It has been so predictable they c ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-23
LeTV Holdings Co., a Beijing-based internet video company, is reported to have won exclusive broadcast rights for Hong Kong for English Premier League matches for three years starting from the 2016-17 ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-08
Who could have predicted the spring blossom and the summer crash? What happens in autumn? What lies beyond? It's a shame that tycoon Li Ka-shing won't come out and meet the press today during the firs ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-25
Desperate times, desperate deal. We are talking not about Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation but the record-breaking HK$1.5 billion (US$190 million) that Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. chairman Jack Ma Yu ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-13
Cable television provider i-CABLE Communications Ltd. (01097.HK) must submit by the end of the month supplementary information for its affiliate's application for a free-television broadcasting licens ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-07
The widespread use of smartphones and tablet devices has changed the habits of newspaper and magazine readers. Many of them have access to massive amounts of news and information from the internet and ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-17
Swire Properties has just sold a super-deluxe duplex apartment at its Opus tower for nearly HK$500 million (US$80.5 million), setting a new record as Asia’s most expensive apartment in terms of price ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-09
