Iron ore prices have remained volatile since hitting a record high in May 2021. With uncertainties persisting on both the supply and demand side, price fluctuations look set to continue. China’s Iron ...More
EJ Insight2022-07-04
Chinese leader Xi Jinping, in a dramatic gesture, traveled to Hong Kong June 30-July 1 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of its return to China in 1997 and its establishment as a special administrativ ...More
EJ Insight2022-07-04
Who would want to be responsible for monetary policy in 2022? To judge from the fierce economic and political debates underway around the world, it is as though open season has been declared on centra ...More
EJ Insight2022-07-01
I’ve been asked this question many a time – how do we keep faith? How do we remain hopeful? How can we see light at the end of a tunnel that repeatedly refuses to end? That’s the question of the centu ...More
EJ Insight2022-06-30
The global financial and economic outlook for the year ahead has soured rapidly in recent months, with policymakers, investors, and households now asking how much they should revise their expectations ...More
EJ Insight2022-06-30
... who emigrated from Hong Kong to Britain 20 years ago and has set up the Sutton Hongkongers Fellowship with more than 250 members. “We offer immigrants a way to share their language, culture and emoti ...More
EJ Insight2022-06-30
... who emigrated from Hong Kong to Britain 20 years ago a ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightMark O’Neill2022年06月30日
The nightmare of staying in a hotel for three full weeks might hopefully be over. Yesterday the National Health Commission announced to shorten the hotel quarantine period for people arriving in the m ...More
EJ Insight2022-06-29
... mplied volatility in options will begin to decline. That hasn’t been the case for copper options in the past 12 months. In the two years before the pandemic struck, implied volatility on one-month (1M ...More
EJ Insight2022-06-29
The world is facing a triple crisis of food, energy, and water scarcity. While its immediate triggers were the COVID-19 pandemic and the Ukraine war, its roots run much deeper: a culture of relentless ...More
EJ Insight2022-06-29
There has been much talk lately of a return to 1970s economic conditions. Here in the United Kingdom, year-on-year inflation reached 9.1% in May, and disruptive labor strikes are dominating the headli ...More
EJ Insight2022-06-28
Abnormal and even extreme weather has become more frequent. The Observatory forecasts that tropical cyclone incidence and total rainfall this year will be "normal to high". To be well-prepared, the Ci ...More
EJ Insight2022-06-28
... within a matter of days. The pronounced monetary policy divergence between the ECB and the Fed has long weighed on the euro. Yet we think that the euro should be close to its trough. The persistence o ...More
EJ Insight2022-06-27
There is no shortage of commentators, both lawyers and lay people, who feel entitled to criticize Hong Kong’s legal community for what these observers assert is a failure to stand up for the liberal r ...More
EJ Insight2022-06-27
In July 2021, the European Commission did something that no other major governing body had ever attempted: It tied trade policy to climate policy. Reaching the European Union’s goal of cutting net gre ...More
EJ Insight2022-06-27
As the 5th wave of Covid-19 gradually subsides, waves of new private housing projects are now under the spotlight. Intensifying competition among developers became the talk of the town after a quarter ...More
EJ Insight2022-06-24
There has been a plethora of hot takes over the closure – and subsequent, more recent, sinking – of the Jumbo Floating Restaurant. The floating restaurant had once been Hong Kong’s hallmark tourist at ...More
EJ Insight2022-06-24
... Jumbo Floating Restaurant. The floating restaurant had ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightBrian Wong2022年06月24日
