Polls began to close on Tuesday in the long and bitter race for the White House between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump, with last-minute opinion polls giving Clinton the edge in ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-09
With "double spicy measures" in place to curb skyrocketing property prices, Hong Kong has seen many property owners get affected. There has been concern as people -- no surprise here -- always want th ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-04
Next month sees a conference on a highly specialized but potentially very important subject: the growth of shareholder activism in Hong Kong. Hong Kong’s stock market is similar to other leading marke ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-20
Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and real estate tycoon Donald Trump clash in their first US presidential debate, with the Democratic nominee accusing her Republican rival of racism, sexis ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-27
The credibility of local news media has dropped to the lowest level since the handover, according to a survey conducted by the Centre for Communication and Public Opinion Survey of the Chinese Univers ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-09
Donald Trump has formally secured the Republican Party's nomination for the 2016 US presidential election, setting the stage for a battle with presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in the rac ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-20
Investors Exchange (IEX) has won approval from the US Securities and Exchange Commission as a national securities exchange. The trading platform has a so-called speed bump of 350 microseconds, which i ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-04
Cloud computing is now seen essential for businesses to improve their cost-efficiency and scalability. But there is a debate going on as to which functions should be transitioned to the cloud, and wha ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-29
Crowdfunding is not a modern invention. As scholar Nadine Scholz points out, the construction of the plinth of the Statue of Liberty was possible only after 160,000 New York citizens made donations in ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-21
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation twice interviewed Omar Mateen, the 29-year-old gunman who killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida on Sunday. The first investigation took place i ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-14
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is being investigated by US securities regulators for its accounting practices. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has asked the Chinese e-commerce giant to volun ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-26
Philippine senators have wrapped up their investigation into the laundering of US$81 million stolen from the Bangladesh central bank. The two senators who led the probe lost their re-election campaign ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-20
Expectations that the next hike in US interest rates could take place in the summer are reasonable, New York Federal Reserve President William Dudley said Thursday, joining the chorus of voices predic ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-20
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says he is willing to talk North Korean leader Kim Jong-un out of his nuclear weapons program. The presumptive republican nominee told Reuters in a wide- ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-18
The Foreign Correspondents' Club, the popular watering hole for journalists in Hong Kong, may need to give a serious thought about moving into larger premises. Yes, the press club may soon have more p ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-28
Albert Einstein once remarked that "logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." Right now, in the modern world, technology is transforming our lives in ways that go beyond o ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-28
Shocking. Meteoric. Inexplicable. It’s tough to explain how Donald Trump has muscled his way into American politics, but those are a few words tossed around by observers when they are forced to descri ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-12
So far this series on my favorite Chinese stocks has focused on big names like Tencent (00700.HK) and Fosun International (00656.HK), which are sector leaders with strong, focused management. But hidi ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-01
HSBC Holdings Plc (00005.HK) will no longer provide mortgages to some Chinese nationals who buy real estate in the United States. The policy change came amid Beijing's efforts to stem the outflow of c ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-29
Star Wars, last year's biggest blockbuster movie, inspired copycats to dress the part and parade in the streets from New York to Paris and Shanghai. Now, Darth Vader, the Storm Troopers and their gala ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-27
