When the Chinese e-commerce juggernaut Alibaba listed on the New York Stock Exchange late last year, it became the world's 17th largest publicly traded company overnight, with a market capitalization ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-24
... e two New York-listed internet companies will be included for the first time in MSCI's China and emerging-markets indices when the stock market index provider starts including foreign-listed stocks in ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-24
... , the New York Times reported. The Shabab claimed responsibility for the 2013 attack on the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, in which more than 60 people were killed, the newspaper said, citi ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-23
... , the New York Post reported Wednesday. Wedding day had begun brilliantly for the couple, with a romantic ceremony in St. Mary’s Church in the village of West Rainton, followed by a town hall-style re ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-18
... with New York talk show host Charlie Rose, Ma revealed that he failed a university entrance exam three times. Unable to enter university, he applied for 30 different jobs and was rejected every time. ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-18
... - and New York-listed gaming companies that have struggled for investor attention due to stalling profit and revenue growth caused by their lack of scale. Potential players for future tie-ups could in ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-17
Japanese industrial-robot maker Fanuc Corp. said it will invest more than US$1 billion in new factories and research facilities at home. The plan came after New York-based hedge fund Third Point LLC, ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-17
... o The New York Times, this increased awareness is partly due to the barrage of news and feature stories about the Indian capital's worsening air pollution problems. The stories, once rare, now appear ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-16
... , the New York Times reported. The dual attacks in Copenhagen had a copycat resemblance to last month's attacks in Paris, in which gunmen killed cartoonists at the Charlie Hebdo newspaper and followed ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-16
... g and New York for a long time. It is also important that a regional register of shareholders is set up, so that shareholdings are transferable within the region. The cutting-edge technology of intern ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-13
American broadcast journalist Bob Simon, a longtime correspondent of CBS News' 60 Minutes, died in a car accident in New York City on Wednesday night. He was 73. Simon, whose decades-long career inclu ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-12
... . The New York-based hedge fund is said to hold about 2.5 percent stake in BEA. A spokesman for BEA was quoted as saying that the bank disagrees with the plaintiffs. "BEA and its board believe that th ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-12
... ch as New York (50.7), London (53.4), Hong Kong (61.2) and Paris (67.6), not to mention Shanghai (84.8) and Beijing (95.3), an Asia Bankers Club presentation showed. Is Abenomics going to work to revi ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-11
... id in New York in 2011. The case also ended his political career. Strauss-Kahn, a Socialist former finance minister, was at the time widely regarded as a top contender for the French presidential elec ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-11
... 02 in New York trading, giving it a market value of US$710.7 billion, more than double that of Microsoft Corp. The iPhone maker had crossed the US$700 billion mark in intraday trading in November and ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-11
China's Sunshine Insurance Group Co. has agreed to buy the super-luxury Baccarat Hotel in New York for more than US$230 million, the Wall Street Journal reported. The price for the Midtown Manhattan p ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-09
... ouse at 6 York Road in Kowloon Tong, which it acquired in the mid-80s, for HK$238.4 million. The house was famously next to the two residences owned by former chief secretary Henry Tang Ying-yen, whos ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-06
... n the New York Times on Jan. 30, Chris Buckley said Beijing is adding new targets to its anti-liberalization movement. Weeding out imported teaching materials that promote western values and purging p ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-06
New York's Columbia University has developed a smartphone attachment to test for diseases such as HIV and syphilis. It works almost just as well as expensive lab equipment, is a lot cheaper, and there ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-06
... udio, New York Times reported. Pascal will leave her current position in May. Sony is yet to name a successor. "I have spent almost my entire professional life at Sony Pictures, and I am energized to ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-06