... 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
... times the peak US production in the 1970s. But as China's economic growth slows, its excess steel output is finding its way overseas. Steel use in China rose by just 1 percent last year and the growth ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-17
... the 2007 peak of 14.2 percent. But the annual unemployment rate has remained largely unchanged from 2007 to 2014. Common sense tells us that the unemployment rate is more volatile than GDP growth or ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-16
... heir 1997 peak levels. For those that did not own property, the hardships came from unemployment peaking at almost 8 percent, and falling real incomes. Average household incomes around HK$19,000 a mon ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-13
... Frankly speaking, we should not expect any substantial fall in housing prices. The previous two rounds of tightening measures only cooled swelling property prices and led to a long period of market c ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-12
... ly during peak seasons such as the Lunar New Year and National Day holidays. In an interview with the Hong Kong Economic Journal in Beijing, Lo said Hong Kong's lack of support for the tourism sector ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-11
