Both the Hong Kong and mainland markets have risen steadily in recent months. Still, many investors are very alert to potential risks. For instance, China’s margin trading and short-selling level reac ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-22
Standard & Poor’s cut its sovereign credit rating on China, becoming the last of the three major rating agencies to lower its view on the country’s creditworthiness, the Wall Street Journal report ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-22
Earlier, I mentioned how bad the economy of Ukraine has been in recent years. In fact, when it comes to case studies on the economic hardships of former eastern bloc countries, academics would often c ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-21
Ray Dalio, founder of the world's largest hedge fund Bridgewater Associates, shared his tips on investing during a TED Talks speech recently. Dalio said that when he was a young kid he did not like fo ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-21
一、 在投資市場討飯吃的機構投資者，有關投資市場去從的評論，愈來愈不能「照單全收」；筆者這種看法，「自古已然」 ...全文
Next month, when finance ministers and central bank governors from more than 180 countries gather in Washington, DC, for the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, they ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-20
隨着法國總統選舉以馬克龍的勝利告終，以及默克爾所屬的基督教民主聯盟在9月24日德國大選前的民調中遙遙領先，一個 ...全文
今日信報理財投資博集先機Barry Eichengreen2017年09月20日
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam on Saturday concluded a two-day visit to Myanmar, becoming the city's first ever chief executive to pay an official visit to the Southeast Asian nation since the establishm ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-19
In recent years, crowdfunding via the internet has taken the world financial market by storm, providing a platform for any startup with a business idea to pitch in front of a global audience of invest ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-19
Pro-Beijing lawmaker Junius Ho Kwan-yiu organized a protest at Tamar Park in Admiralty, urging the University of Hong Kong (HKU) to sack its associate professor of law Benny Tai Yiu-ting, one of the t ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-18
This past July marked the 20th anniversary of the Asian financial crisis, which sent shockwaves globally and across the region. Twenty years later, financial markets in Asia have undoubtedly changed f ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-18
近年歐盟飽受攸關存亡危機困擾：首先2008年出現金融海嘯及之後的歐債危機，2015年遇上難民危機，及後又有疑歐 ...全文
今日信報EJ GlobalEJ GLOBAL plus 信觀點Dr. James F. Downes2017年09月16日
SoftBank Group Corp. is in talks with Uber Technologies Inc. to take a substantial stake in the car-hailing service, but only if it can buy the shares at a steep discount, the Wall Street Journal repo ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-15
A pilot scheme that aims to ease Hong Kong’s tight housing supply is expected to be launched on Tuesday, with hundreds of “legal” subdivided flats to be offered at the initial stage. The social housin ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-14
Jamie Dimon, chief executive of JPMorgan Chase & Co., said bitcoin “is a fraud” and will blow up, Reuters reports. Speaking at a bank investor conference in New York on Tuesday, Dimon said: “The c ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-13
Leung Kwok-hung and Lau Siu-lai, two of the four pro-democracy lawmakers who were disqualified by the High Court in July for improper oath-taking last year, took their cases to the Court of Appeal. Th ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-12
Despite posting losses of more than HK$2 billion in the first half of this year, Cathay Pacific has announced the start of a new direct route from Hong Kong to Dublin, the capital of Ireland, from Jun ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-11
