... 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
... reached a peak of 6,124 (before a meltdown of about 70 percent to below 2,000 in 2014). The buying from the north in mainland stocks has been stunning after Easter, with record daily turnover in exces ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-09
... previous peak in October 2007. Amid the feverish trading, several banks and brokerages such as Chong Hing Securities, Bright Smart Securities, I-Access Investors and Standard Chartered saw their plat ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-09
... itionally peak season were those from Malaysia (-33 percent), Singapore (-21 percent), Japan (-12 percent), Thailand (-12 percent), and Taiwan (-7 percent), according to Tourism Board data. With a fla ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-03
... it at its peak in December 2013, but the price crashed by nearly 80 percent to 1,524 yuan as of today. But that hasn't stopped the emergence of a new digital currency – the LEOCoin, which claims to be ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-02
... stock at peak level, or they will suffer if they fail to take profit quickly. Investment strategy and execution have to come in tandem with each other. This article first appeared in the Hong Kong Ec ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-02
... pically a peak travel period for China. It is the fifth consecutive monthly drop, typified by falling occupancy and average room rates. Hong Kong is still the most expensive hotel market in Asia, wit ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-02
... uring the peak National Day shopping season in October. And if successful, it will reduce overcrowding in Hong Kong shops and ultimately ease cross-border tensions, Lee was quoted as saying. The plot ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-31
... pting the peak travel season around the Thai New Year holiday in April. About 100 charter flights to Japan alone have been canceled and some 30,000 tickets either refunded or modified, Somchai Piputwa ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-31
... -sweeping peak season to ease the traffic pressure. Hong Kong lags behind some of its Asian neighbors like Malaysia and Taiwan in columbarium services, Ma notes. Many of the columbaria in these places ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-30
... t slashed peak-season export tariffs on urea and ammonium phosphate, boosting export volumes and easing oversupply in the domestic market, he said. Urea sales were 1.96 million tons, of which 44 perce ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-27
... uances at peak valuations if the A-share market sustains the rally. For its Hong Kong IPO, the top-end pricing translates into a price-to-earnings ratio of 14 times. Investors can take some short-term ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-27
... hitting a peak of US$70.4 billion in 2008, just before the global financial crisis. Last year the figure was US$55.5 billion. About 48 percent of such deals went into mining and energy, as China spent ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-27
... from the peak period, and then switches to the next target. But it spares no effort in doing this. The government doesn't just test the waters in one sector and give up easily. Investment returns ha ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-25
... rm to its peak level that year. Chairman William Fung Kwok-lun said the goals were set way too high and have turned out to be difficult to accomplish, given the changes in the retail environment over ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-20
... ached its peak on November 13, when it hit US$120. The stock closed Tuesday at US$84.50, about 24 percent above the US$68 IPO price but down 29 percent from its peak. On Wednesday, 437 million shares ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-18
