China’s Communist Party has published a document in which it projects slower economic growth in 2016. Continued contraction in new real estate investment and exports means risks are tilted to the down ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-20
“Many people believe a beauty pageant is all about ‘beauty’, but I think intelligence carries more weight than beauty,” said Andrea Eng (伍慧芬), Canada’s first Chinese representative at a global pageant ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-14
China’s Communist Party has published a document about the 13th Five-Year Plan. The 17-page document provides more details about the blueprint for economic growth in the next five years than were foun ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-06
A federal jury found two former traders at Rabobank guilty of fraud in the first US trial arising from a global investigation into manipulation of Libor, the leading benchmark for pricing financial tr ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-06
Bank of America Corp. has agreed to sell its US$87 billion money-market fund business to BlackRock Inc in one of the cash-management industry's largest deals ever, Reuters reported. The deal, whose te ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-04
When US luxury handbag maker Coach Inc. opened its four-story flagship store in the heart of Hong Kong’s Central district, it marked the occasion with a celebrity-studded, champagne-fueled party. Seve ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-28
Facebook users are being told to double-check their privacy settings after the social media network issued an update that allows third parties to access trillions of older posts from any public profil ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-27
The sector breakdown of China’s data for third-quarter gross domestic product shows it was higher output from public services that rescued growth from the impact of the equity market collapse. With g ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-23
The markets are awaiting China’s data for third-quarter gross domestic product -- slated for publication Monday -- with a combination of trepidation and skepticism. Trepidation that the data might sh ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-16
Following the latest discussions between Chinese President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Barack Obama, the momentum in the bilateral economic relationship is tipping away from Beijing. During the ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-29
Nearly US$20 billion flowed illegally out of Myanmar between 1960 and 2013, according to a report by Global Financial Integrity (GFI), a Washington, D.C.-based research and advocacy organization based ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-11
President Xi Jinping’s impending state visit to the United States will focus attention on the widening differences between the two countries rather than their common interests, despite slowing economi ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-01
Teach English, pay off a student loan and leave. The plan was as straightforward as it gets but Tom Grundy somehow got sidetracked which is why he is still in Hong Kong years later. It didn't occur ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-22
Former trader Tom Hayes has been sentenced by a London court to 14 years in jail after he was found guilty of conspiring to rig Libor benchmark interest rates. The jury of five women and seven men on ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-04
The global bond market has stepped into the bear territory, except for a handful of markets like India and China. That's why many foreign investors are keen to jump into China’s bond market. Its bond ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-30
Honeywell International Inc. has agreed to buy the utility consumption metering business of Britain's Melrose Industries Plc. for about US$5.1 billion. It's the largest acquisition by Honeywell in mor ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-29
President Barack Obama pledged to increase US support for the moderate opposition in Syria's civil war on Monday, Reuters reported. Speaking during a visit to the Pentagon, Obama also said the United ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-07
The stockbroker is beating the car salesman in the battle for Chinese wallets, Bloomberg reported. With China’s benchmark stock index more than doubling in the past year, consumers like Tom Zhang are ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-08
Walt Disney Co. may take its MyMagic+ program to the company's other theme parks after a positive experience with the mobile technology at the firm's flagship resort in Florida. "The folks who are say ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-22
He's outta here. After more than 6,000 broadcasts and 33 years in late-night television, David Letterman took the stage at the Ed Sullivan Theater for the final time on Wednesday. It was a mix of irre ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-21
