A weakening of the renminbi to 7.70 to the US dollar could return China's export growth to 10 percent year on year by end-2016 and add 0.7 percentage point to GDP growth, analysis by Bloomberg Intelli ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-15
Faced with sluggish economic growth, Indonesia is working on a major revamp of its rules on foreign investment. The changes could open the door for overseas companies to take bigger stakes in domestic ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-14
When Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan recently announced their plan to devote some US$45 billion in Facebook shares toward making the world a better place, some critics wro ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-30
This year has been a period of stimulus for China's economy. 2016 will be the same as well. The central bank has cut interest rates multiple times. It has injected liquidity to offset capital outflows ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-18
Douglas Tompkins, founder of North Face Inc. and noted conservationist, has died after a kayaking accident in his adopted country of Chile. He was 72. Tompkins died Dec. 8 from hypothermia after falli ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-10
Add another achievement to Hong Kong's impressive curriculum vitae as an international financial center. The city stands to regain its ranking this year as the world's No. 1 spawning ground for initia ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-08
A Hong Kong rugby player is desperately looking for a man who caught him on a dash cam being knocked down by a speeding car in Jordan. Tom McQueen took to Facebook to reach out to the man after seeing ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-04
The owner of playgroup operator Bambini Republic, which suddenly closed all of its five outlets in Hong Kong in late November, was arrested by customs officers on Monday, Sing Tao Daily reported. Tom ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-01
Several customers of playgroup operator Bambini Republic, which recently closed all its outlets, suspect they have been deceived to the tune of a combined HK$2 million (US$260,000, Apple Daily reporte ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-27
The renminbi’s use in international transactions remains heavily tilted toward trade, with limited adoption as an investment currency. On some metrics, progress on internationalization appears to hav ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-27
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
