Monte dei Paschi di Siena said its plan to raise on the market 5 billion euros (US$5.2 billion) in capital by the end of the year had failed, paving the way for a state bailout of Italy's third-larges ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-23
Taiwan accused China of using Sao Tome and Principe's financial woes to push its "one China" policy after the small West African state ended ties with the self-ruled island. Taiwan Foreign Minister Da ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-21
The Dow and Nasdaq Composite rose to record highs in a rally fueled by optimism about US President-elect Donald Trump's policies. The Dow Jones industrial average on Tuesday ended just 25 points shy o ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-21
Top executives of New York-based hedge fund manager Platinum Partners were arrested and charged with running a US$1 billion fraud. Federal prosecutors said the case was "like a Ponzi scheme" as its la ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-20
A truck plowed into a crowded Christmas market in central Berlin on Monday evening, killing nine people and injuring up to 50 others, police said, in what appeared to be one of the deadliest attacks i ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-20
From the panel, the row of men and women stared at Harold. They watched, listened and watched some more. As usual, Harold was impeccably dressed in a suit and tie. When he was younger he had dreams of ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-19
Apple will launch a legal challenge this week to the European Union's record US$14 billion tax demand, arguing that EU regulators ignored tax experts and corporate law and deliberately picked a method ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-19
Health or family. That's the usual excuse a beleaguered politician gives when he is forced to bow out of office. In March 2005 then Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa said the “acute leg pain” he had been ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-14
When the Philippines' President Rodrigo Duterte, the man dubbed "Trump of the East", told US businesses to pack their bags if they didn't like his anti-American rhetoric, the huge and growing outsourc ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-09
Heavy security at subway stations in Los Angeles greeted commuters on Tuesday as federal and local authorities investigated a specific but uncorroborated threat to detonate a bomb at the Metro Red Lin ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-07
Residents of besieged rebel-held eastern Aleppo have fewer than 10 days to receive aid or face starvation and death from a lack of medical supplies. That's according to the head of the Syria Civil Def ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-25
Scores of Hong Kong-listed companies, many of them small, are drumming up investor interest in the mainland ahead of the launch of a cross-border stock trading link between Shenzhen and Hong Kong. Mai ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-21
On Wednesday Hong Kong people and the rest of the world closely monitored the edge-of-the-seat race for the White House between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. When it became clear that America chos ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-10
Republican Donald Trump's victory in the US presidential election will deepen Asian allies' anxiety about Washington's commitment to post-war security arrangements in the face of a rising China and vo ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-10
Toblerone has drawn mounting criticisms from British consumers who are upset over the bigger spaces between the distinctive jagged peaks of the chocolate bars sold in the UK. US manufacturer Mondelez ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-09
More than 1,000 Hong Kong lawyers dressed in black marched through the heart of Hong Kong in silence to denounce a move by China that effectively bars two elected pro-independence lawmakers from takin ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-09
Philippine police are planning to reduce the killing of drug suspects and shift to arresting prominent people tied to the narcotics trade. Project Double Barrel Alpha will put a stronger focus on arre ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-25
Microsoft Corp. saw its shares jump to an all-time high after reporting adjusted revenue and profit that blew past analysts' estimates amid strong sales from its cloud business. The news underscores t ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-21
