US President Donald Trump said after the first intra-Korean talks in over two years that the United States was willing to speak to North Korea “under the right circumstances”, although it was far from ...More
EJ Insight2018-01-11
A consumer protection group has sued Chinese search giant Baidu for allegedly infringing on the rights of its customers by tapping into their personal information through its smartphone apps. The Jian ...More
EJ Insight2018-01-08
Local fintech startup 8 Securities launched Hong Kong’s first artificial intelligence financial advisor and wealth management app in late 2016. About a year after App Chloe's launch, the robo-advisor ...More
EJ Insight2018-01-08
Israel may ban from trading on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange companies whose main business revolves around bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, Reuters reports, citing the Israel Securities Authority (IS ...More
EJ Insight2018-01-05
US President Donald Trump said he was “very disappointed that China is allowing oil to go into North Korea” and that such moves would prevent “a friendly solution” to the crisis over Pyongyang’s nucle ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-29
Bitcoin does not currently pose a threat to the US banking system, a regulator said on Wednesday, pointing out that banks have little exposure to the virtual currency. Joseph Otting, who was sworn in ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-21
France will propose that the G20 group of major economies discuss regulation of the bitcoin virtual currency, the nation's finance minister said on Sunday. "I am going to propose to the next G20 presi ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-18
A US regulatory panel called for watchdogs to closely monitor risks created by financial innovation, warning that "fintech" and virtual currencies such as bitcoin threaten to disrupt the traditional f ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-15
The Federal Reserve raised interest rates but left its rate outlook for the coming years unchanged even as policymakers projected a short-term jump in US economic growth from the Trump administration’ ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-14
Virtual currency bitcoin hit another all-time peak, two days after the launch of the first ever bitcoin futures on a US exchange and ahead of the start of another futures contract next week, as invest ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-13
General Electric Co. said it is axing 12,000 jobs at its global power business, the struggling industrial conglomerate’s latest effort to shrink itself into a more focused company, Reuters reports. Th ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-08
A US-based Volkswagen executive was sentenced to seven years in prison and fined US$400,000 by a Detroit federal court on Wednesday for his role in a diesel emissions scandal, Reuters reports. The pri ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-07
Opinion polls show Vladimir Putin is already a shoo-in to win a fourth presidential term. But a ban on Russia taking part in the Winter Olympics is likely to make support for him even stronger, by uni ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-07
Something must have gone terribly wrong at AVIC Joy Holdings. The tiny listed firm, formerly known as China Environmental Investment Holdings, has had three chairmen in the space of just about four we ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-05
Amazon.com Inc. on Thursday said that Alexa, its increasingly popular digital aide that shoppers command by voice, is now programmed to handle a range of tedious office tasks, Reuters reports. Busines ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-01
Missouri’s attorney general said his office will investigate whether Alphabet Inc.’s Google violated the state’s consumer protection and antitrust laws. Josh Hawley, a Republican seeking to unseat Dem ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-14
The smashing success of Tencent's e-book unit China Literature (00772.HK), which saw its shares surge more than 80 percent on their first day of trading on Wednesday, is expected to encourage more tec ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-09
The major futures exchanges believe in the development of cryptocurrency trading and will push on with launching exchange traded funds that allow investors to trade in them, Reuters reports, citing th ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-08
