With the Nikkei Index reaching a 21-year high, foreign investors' interest in Japanese equities continues to pick up. Investment in Japanese stocks is typically driven by two things: expectations of a ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-27
China's Greater Bay Area plan should create significant long-term benefits for the people and businesses of Hong Kong and the other ten cities of the Pearl River Delta. Fruition of the plan is likely ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-27
Megatrends are global economic, social and demographical shifts that can have a major influence on our everyday lives. BlackRock, based on research conducted by leading consulting firms, has establish ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-26
Saudi Arabia unveiled plans to build a new city on the Red Sea coast, a project that will involve more than US$500 billion in investment as the oil-rich kingdom seeks to diversify its economy. The i ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-25
Hong Kong's geography can be succinctly described as having "deep and wide harbors with lots of hills and little flat land". Housing and land supply have been the city's Achilles' heel for a long time ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-25
Hawkers at the MC Box Po Tat market in Kwun Tong district will start accepting payments through electronic means in the coming months, thanks to a cashless transaction push from Chinese online payment ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-24
Apple Inc. sees its mobile devices as a major platform for artificial intelligence in the future, Reuters reports, citing chief operating officer Jeff Williams. Later this week, Apple is set to begin ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-24
Chinese lifestyle-services internet platform Meituan-Dianping has raised US$4 billion from an investor group led by Tencent Holdings, the Wall Street Journal reports. In the deal that pinned a valuati ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-20
Lyft Inc. has raised US$1 billion in fresh financing in a round led by one of Alphabet Inc.’s investment funds, dealing a blow to rival Uber Technologies Inc., Reuters reports. The round was led by Ca ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-20
China’s venture capital sector has become the second largest in the world. Last year the market saw investments worth more than US$50 billion (around HK$390 billion), expanding 10 times from just US$5 ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-19
A new fund will let robots pick stocks. The AI Powered Equity Exchange-Traded Fund, which launched in the United States on Wednesday, will use IBM Corp’s Watson artificial intelligence technology to p ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-19
金融大鱷索羅斯(George Soros)被踢爆,原來已把其近八成身家、即接近180億美元(約1404億港元) ...全文
去年內地創投熱潮大爆發,投資總額超過500億美元(約3900億港元),規模比10年前增長10倍,成為全球第二大 ...全文
今日信報財經新聞StartupBeat 創科鬥室2017年10月18日
One question I am often asked by investors is – how can stock markets make new highs when there is so much political uncertainty in the world? On the whole, markets are coping rather well with all the ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-17
Numerous startups worldwide have rushed to the initial coin offering (ICO) market to raise funds, and this trend may disrupt the long-time reliance on traditional venture capital, according to Heather ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-17
The US urged the International Monetary Fund to help move trading powers away from large trade surpluses, and called on the World Bank to curtail its lending to middle-income countries, the Wall Stree ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-16