Asian financial crisis

It is tempting to think that the global economy has become immune to shocks despite multiple ongoing physical conflicts, trade…

HSBC Holdings has taken the unusual step of getting directly involved in pushing its Hong Kong subsidiary, Hang Seng Bank,…

Though China moved away from a command economy decades ago, its successive five-year plans have remained a pillar of macroeconomic…

Most family offices in Asia-Pacific are bullish about their portfolios and expect decent returns this year, with interest rate cuts…

Hong Kong’s de facto central bank and the city’s largest lender have issued separate statements to assuage concerns about a…

In a commercial rental market beset by high vacancy rates, many Hong Kong landlords feel stuck between a rock and…

“It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good,” to quote a centuries-old proverb. It is one that could be…

China’s economic reform over the past decade has been a controlled process of privatisation, liberalisation and deregulation, and that process…

Stock markets rise and fall, but there are days when the plunge defies gravity. The Hang Seng Index slumped 13.2…

China’s central bank chief Pan Gongsheng promised to park more of the country’s US$3.2 trillion foreign exchange reserves in Hong…