... the first peak of HK$7.2 billion in 1997, and sixteen years later -- in 2013 -- the profit was still around HK$7.6 billion. It's only rare that a lucrative industry or business comes with a high entry ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-23
... r, from a peak of about 1.5 to 2.5 percent expansion last summer, the report said. -- Contact us at [email protected] JZ/JP/RC ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-23
... ld at the peak of the gold rush two years ago) or Dashus (middle-aged men who are fond of watches). As a matter of fact, Rolex and other luxury brands have been badly hurt by Xi Jinping's ongoing camp ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-22
Ho Tung Gardens has been sold for a record HK$5.1 billion, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reported Thursday. The property was the site of a historic villa on the Peak built by the businessman Robert H ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-22
... entered a peak flu period, and people should maintain strict personal hygiene, wear a mask when respiratory symptoms develop and avoid going to crowded places, the CHP said. Among respiratory specimen ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-22
... recast to peak at 3.71 million in 2018, from 3.58 million now, then decline to 3.51 million by 2035, official estimates show. --Contact us at [email protected] VW/JP/FL ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-16
... n July, a peak and much higher than low single-digit growth earlier in the year, the newspaper said, citing HSBC data. Since then, however, shipments to the region have slumped, to 5.3 percent in Octo ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-16
... city may peak out soon as demand now is driven more by investment rather than real consumption, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reported Friday. "Home prices are forecast to be to be flat this year ve ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-16
... peared to peak soon after the Alibaba IPO. An index tracking 30 US-listed technology companies has fallen 12 percent since November. Internet security provider Qihoo has fallen 44 percent from its Aug ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-16
... 2013. The peak year was 4,624 in 2013 compared with 3,908 in 2012 and 2,995 in 2011. The previous record was 3,974 in 1991 in the aftermath of the military crackdown in Beijing in June 1989. Driving p ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-15
China's A-share market is unlikely this year to scale the peaks of 2007 after the bull run in 2014, as fundamentals like GDP and earnings growth are much weaker now compared to the levels eight years ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-13
... nt at its peak in 2013 to about 44 percent in the third quarter of 2014, as its high-end offerings lost out to Apple's iPhones and buyers in emerging markets opted for cheaper devices from Chinese fir ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-08
... e share's peak price of HK$30 in 2008, and a mere 27 percent premium to its last price before it was suspended from trading in December. Once a fund managers' darling, Ports Design was listed in 2003 ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-08
... uring the peak hours, dealers are unable to keep an eye on all the goods but theft rarely happens there. Sometimes Gwo Laan dealers also help their customers check the quality of fruits and arrange de ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-07
... nt before peaking out, Wong said. The Centa-City Leading Index, a main gauge of property prices in Hong Kong, stood at 132.45 last Friday. The level was 28.7 percent above the peak in 1997, with a cum ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-07
... and hit a peak of 25,363 in 2014. By comparison, stock prices usually experience free falls in a bear market cycle. And it usually lasts no more than three years. Take oil price as an example. Crude p ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-05
Hong Kong Mortgage Corp. (HKMC) chief executive Raymond Li Ling-cheung said the property market is about to peak and start declining amid rising home supply in the market and expected interest rate hi ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-05
... it is not peak season for the sale of chicken and prices were not particularly high, it might be better to simply stop sales for 21 days. Poultry Wholesalers Association chairman Tsui Ming-tuen and lo ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-02
... 2020.HK), Peak Sport (01968.HK), Xtep International Holdings (01368.HK) and 361 Degrees (01361.HK) are some names worth watching. This article appeared in the Hong Kong economic journal on Dec. 30 Tra ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-30
... nt from a peak in June. Western sanctions over Moscow's role in the Ukraine crisis have deterred foreign investment and led to more than US$100 billion flowing out of the Russian economy this year. "W ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-30
