As the old trading adage goes, “trees don’t grow to the sky”; markets will correct at some stage. I previously said that economies all over the world were showing positive growth, which is rarely seen ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-28
US President Donald Trump’s administration is expected, by Nov. 2, to announce its choice, subject to Senate approval, to succeed Janet Yellen as chair of the Federal Reserve Board in February 2018. T ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-27
I had earlier set a two-year target for Hong Kong's benchmark index at 40,000, with the forecast resting on the assumption that China will succeed in its economic restructuring attempt. Some of my fri ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-20
A government task force will initially focus on 12 options to help increase land supply for public housing. The group held its first meeting on Wednesday. Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor to ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-07
David Tang Wing-cheung, the Hong Kong entrepreneur who founded the high-end fashion brand Shanghai Tang, died in London on Tuesday at the age of 63. Tang died after battling liver cancer for some time ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-31
A number of mainland Chinese property firms, including big names such as China Evergrande Group (03333.HK) and Country Garden Holdings (02007.HK) as well as some smaller developers like Guangzhou R&am ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-28
Fears are growing that leaked palm oil from a sunken ship in Chinese waters could lead to an environmental disaster. Fishermen are concerned that the large amount of leakage will produce red tide and ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-08
Hong Kong's anti-graft investigators have for the first time revealed details of their painstaking and multi-year probe that led to the convictions of former chief secretary Rafael Hui, former Sun Hun ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-07
What is the formidable CNN afraid of in Hong Kong? Well, it just seems to be this: the ever-rising property rental costs. For 18 years, the global news network has operated out of Taikoo Place, settli ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-24
The Federal Reserve has approved plans from the 34 largest US banks to use extra capital for stock buybacks, dividends and other purposes beyond being a cushion against catastrophe, Reuters reports. T ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-29
Hong Kong government has been focusing on boosting the supply of public housing in the past two decades, but the new units have come at a cost: ever-shrinking living spaces. According to a Hong Kong E ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-20
Property magnate Thomas Kwok will have to return to Stanley Prison to finish his jail sentence, after the Court of Final Appeal this morning dismissed appeals from him and former Chief Secretary for A ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-14
Kowloon City Plaza, owned by toy tycoon Francis Choi Chee-ming, is said to have received a bid from a mainland investor who values the property at HK$5 billion. Ownership of the shopping mall has chan ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-14
At the direction of President Xi Jinping, Xiongan New Area has been lauded by the state media as a demonstration for a new model of urban development. However, given all kinds of difficulties ahead, i ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-09
Former Hong Kong leader Donald Tsang was granted bail by a court on Monday, allowing him to walk free after he was sentenced to jail two months ago for misconduct in office. The High Court set Tsang ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-25
Senior Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley are preparing to shift staff and operations from London to elsewhere in the European Union as Prime Minister Theresa May sets up the UK’s exit from t ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-22
Hong Kong Airlines was criticized for allegedly failing to respond promptly to a passenger who left his passport on a flight from Hong Kong to Shanghai, forcing him and his companion Mario Ho Yau-kwan ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-15
Businessman Lew Mon-hung, a former member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), has criticized chief executive hopeful Carrie Lam soon after walking out of Stanley Prison ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-28
The conviction of seven police officers who were caught on camera punching and kicking a handcuffed protester during a 2014 Occupy clearance operation has caused quite a stir north of the border amid ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-24
