iBonds vie for investor interest
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority is selling another HK$ 10 billion of three-year iBonds to inflation-conscious residents as part of a long-term effort to promote the city’s bond market and…
Buy your favourite stars’ perfume, not their share tips
According to National Geographic’s latest weekly series The ’80s, the 1980s was a decade of such importance that its cultural shifts and innovations continue to underpin everything we see today.…
Picking emerging-market winners
Like many, you might be looking to increase your equities holdings, but unsure of where to go. The rises in Japanese and American shares are built on central bank money-printing,…
Japan’s Nikkei dives as yen gains strength
Japan’s stock market dived on Monday after the yen reversed some of its recent fall against the US dollar. Stocks elsewhere in Asia were mixed as investors tried to sort…
City’s small-cap firms to set to see flood of capital from China
Beijing’s long-standing plans to allow mainlanders to invest overseas is expected to release large capital inflows into small-cap companies in Hong Kong as retail investors on the mainland seek to…
Markets fall as Chinese production weakens
The deteriorating outlook on the mainland sent Japan’s Nikkei 225 stock average slumping 7.3 per cent, registering the deepest loss since the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. The Hang Seng Index…
More information removed from HKMEx website
The latest removal includes names of the directors and the management team, raising questions why the suspended trading platform is withholding more information from the public and whether it is…
Plan to extend property tax trial upsets investors
Shares of mainland property stocks fell across the board yesterday after the top economic planning agency indicated “concrete action” would be taken this year to extend a trial property tax…
Asian stocks steadier, Nikkei bounces back
Asian shares opened cautiously higher on Friday with Tokyo’s Nikkei steadying from its biggest one-day drop in two years as investors breathed a sigh of relief when Wall Street cut…
Malaysia tycoon plans IPO of football club Cardiff City: sources
Malaysian billionaire Vincent Tan is exploring an IPO of U.K football team Cardiff City as early as this year, people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters, in a deal…
