Take a look at the one of KUKA’s latest videos promoting its small robot series and you will be amazed at how good they have become. The machine highlights its two killer features — extreme speed...

Last year when Beijing suddenly devalued the renminbi, concerns over the prospects of the Chinese currency sparked a massive selloff in the Hong Kong stock market and sent ripples to overseas equities as well. But now,...

How long does it take to swipe a card 200 times and get the paperwork all signed? The answer is about an hour, according the China Securities Daily. But Hong Kong insurance agents are more than...

Be highly selective, buy great companies and buy them at reasonable prices. That is Warren Buffett’s secret of success and advice to investors. Sounds simple and straightforward enough. But a recent Financial Times column raised a...

If you were to go to the webpage of the Shanghai Stock Exchange and walk away for an hour, you would find that the benchmark index hardly moved at all. Despite a strong start after the...

It’s often hard to gauge whether some of China’s economic troubles are going away or getting worse based on mainland media reports. On one hand, there have been headlines about how the profitability of the industrial...

Being able to sell what you make at a high margin is considered good business but some phony Chinese makers have discovered a better business model — fake production and sales in exchange for government subsidies....

China’s car-hailing business is thriving, but a growing number of drivers on these platforms are complaining about bad business and low returns. “I work for more than ten hours a day and earn about 400 yuan a...

Nearly half of the wind turbines installed in Gansu province in northwestern China had to be shut down in the first quarter this year, or curtailed in wind farm jargon, up from 39 percent last year....

Soaring property prices are once again grabbing the headlines in mainland media. In the past few years, government policy has seen many twists and turns, sometimes to the tighter side and sometimes to an easing bias,...

Among a set of favorable factors, mainland interest in Hong Kong equities is receiving probably the most attention. One can sense the excitement with a glance at reports from local and Chinese media. China Securities Journal...

In 2014, only 14 percent of active equity funds managed to beat the S&P 500. In the hedge fund industry that caters to much bigger and sophisticated investors, the average return between 2011 and 2015 fell...

The proliferation of fake goods in China is nothing new. Yet, some brand owners are feeling their businesses being increasingly threatened because the quality of copycats is getting better than ever. Most of us have heard...

In a Hong Kong Economic Journal article, fund manager Alex Wong gives an example of how to gain from trading shares of Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd. (00016.HK) by “selling low” and “buying high”. When the...

Caring too much about macro factors can sometimes prevent investors from profiting from well-run and prospective businesses, columnist Hao Cheng Lin wrote in the Hong Kong Economic Journal. Hao cited Warren Buffett’s talk at University of...

Many iPhone users are probably aware that the smartphones they are using, though designed and marketed by Apple, are actually assembled by Foxconn. But few may have heard about a group of rising Chinese contract manufacturers...

When startups raise funds by selling shares at lower prices than in earlier rounds, it could either be because the business is not doing well or venture capitalists are becoming less optimistic. These so-called “down rounds”...

China’s appliance market has been stagnant amid the economic slowdown and an excess of capacity, forcing leaders in the sector to look for new areas of growth. Earlier, Midea bought a controlling stake in German industrial...

While billionaire investor Warren Buffett continued to buy more Apple shares, numerous other heavyweights have been issuing alarms about the US stock market. George Soros is said to be one of the most bearish. According to...

It seems that internet giant Amazon can do no wrong. The company not only dominates the e-commerce industry and keeps expanding its online sales at double-digit pace, it also has a rapidly expanding cloud computing operation. More...