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
An independent fund has been launched to provide financial support to 16 pro-democracy activists who were jailed last month. Civic Party barrister Margaret Ng Hoi-yee, one of the initiators of the the ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-05
The rise in passive investing has been a major theme of this market cycle. Data in the US suggest that passive funds now represent about 22 percent of the total US stock market; at least 25 percent of ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-05
China Merchants Port Holdings Co. Ltd. agreed to buy 90 percent of TCP Participações SA, Brazil’s most profitable port terminal, for about 2.9 billion reais (US$924 million), a sign of growing interes ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-05
As the information and communications technology (ICT) industry has become the new global economic growth engine, it is of the utmost importance for our government to equip our workforce with the late ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-04
As a candidate, Donald Trump insisted on one signature issue above all: the United States will build a wall along its border with Mexico, and Mexico will pay for it. Seven months after taking office, ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-04
Honda Motor reached a US$605 million settlement in the United States in a lawsuit over defective Takata air-bags in millions of cars sold in the country, the Wall Street Journal reports. The automaker ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-04
Fifteen years ago this week the first bond exchange-traded funds (ETFs) debuted, changing the way investors can access fixed income markets. Today there are more than 852 bond ETFs in the US with more ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-01
A crane lorry driver, aged 51, died after he was crushed by his vehicle in a freak accident in Sham Shui Po on Thursday. According to reports, the man had stopped his vehicle by the roadside and was t ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-01
Raising capital is a painful experience. Whether you are raising early-stage seed funding or preparing for an IPO, nobody enjoys asking (begging) others for money to finance their business, with the n ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-01
TNG Wallet, one of Hong Kong’s top five digital wallets, announced a partnership with convenience chain 7-Eleven, making payment and cash withdrawal services available around the clock at more than 90 ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-31
A 68-year-old construction worker died on Tuesday after he was hit by a large concrete slab that broke loose from a building in Cheung Sha Wan. The fatal accident took place at about 10:30 am at a wor ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-30
In an NBA game last year when Kevin Durant was playing for the Oklahoma City Thunder, he yelled at his teammate to "shoot the ball!" when his teammate chose to pass even when he had a pretty good chan ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-29
A non-profit organization is stepping up a campaign for pedestrianization of Des Voeux Road Central, outlining a proposal to turn the area into a walk-friendly boulevard in the coming years. Walk DVRC ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-29
