The important services provided by the financial system in mobilizing money from those who have it to those in need of it obviously are not free. There are costs involved in the provision of the many ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-17
US President Donald Trump said he is considering quotas and tariffs to deal with the "big problem" of steel dumping from China and others. "They're dumping steel and destroying our steel industry, the ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-14
The Hang Seng Index posted an impressive return of 17.1 percent in the first half of this year. However, nearly 2,000 individual stocks failed to outperform and some of them even lagged behind the ben ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-13
The government will settle the controversy over the Mandatory Provident Fund (MPF) offsetting mechanism by year-end and make sure both employees and employers are satisfied, Chief Secretary Matthew Ch ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-13
本月是亞洲金融危機爆發20周年，或者更準確地說，是引發這場危機的泰銖貶值事件20周年。這樣的周年絕不是值得慶祝 ...全文
名家論壇Project Syndicate2017年07月12日
A Chinese fund part-owned by congolomerate CITIC Ltd. has paid US$1.1 billion for some of Dow Chemical Co.'s corn seed business in Brazil, in a further sign of China's fast-expanding role in the globa ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-12
I've just returned from a cruise trip. During the voyage, I learnt that almost all the tour participants were retirees, and that most of them were financially secure. The senior citizens built up thei ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-12
We are all familiar with the physical infrastructure comprising such important facilities as airports, railways, roads and bridges that allow people and goods to be moved from one location to another ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-10
Hong Kong Customs and Excise Department seized about 7,200 kilograms of ivory tusks in a shipping container from Malaysia, the largest seizure of its kind since the international commercial ivory trad ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-07
Alibaba’s Yuebao is now the nation’s largest money market fund with assets hitting 1.43 trillion yuan (US$210.18 billion) as of the end of June, up sharply from the end of last year. Launched in June ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-07
Four days into the job as Hong Kong chief executive, Carrie Lam is trying to differentiate herself from her predecessor, Leung Chun-ying, by taking a completely different stance on issues ranging from ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-05
The stock market is becoming increasingly divergent, and investors are constantly switching from one sector to another. The end of the quarter is in fact a period when fund managers are active in swit ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-04
Airbus SE’s A380 superjumbo faces the ignominy of being broken up for spare parts if second-hand operators for the oldest jets can’t be found in coming months, Bloomberg reports. The double-deckers co ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-04
A couple of years ago, the eurozone – about one-sixth of the world economy – appeared to be in serious trouble. Beginning in 2010, an unexpected sovereign debt crisis contributed to and was compounded ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-03
Top soccer stars Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo have both been dealt a heavy blow by Spain’s tax system. Messi was sentenced to 21 months in prison last month, and Ronaldo is being chased for 14.7 ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-03
Last week (June 25-26), Hong Kong hosted the Third China-Israel Investment Summit, attracting more than 120 Israeli innovation start-ups and 300 investors from Hong Kong and the mainland. “China and I ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-03
