Demand for data is set to increase as Internet of Things and cloud services continue to gain popularity. If so, will memory chips makers benefit from that trend? Troubled Japanese conglomerate Toshiba Corp. put its memory...

Shares of natural gas distributors have gone up by about 30 percent on average in year to date. Amid this situation, there is this question: should investors continue to buy the stocks at current levels? China’s...

All business activities have to create value for customers. Shopping malls, department stores or super markets came into existence and later thrived as they used to be the only venue to display products and goods. Therefore,...

Clothing and electronic products have set off China’s e-commerce era. But the fact is the majority of retail spending goes to the purchase of fast moving consumer goods (FMCG), not clothing or electronics. For instance, an...

While stories like JD’s record sales in its June 18 shopping festival always grab the headlines, apart from the online shopping boom, rosy prospects in hardware such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT)...

Tennis professionals are expected to make ideal swings all the time. By training hard, they are supposed to be able to repeatedly make the right moves, hitting the perfect serves and placement they want, thus enhancing...

US President Donald Trump has been in office for less than 200 days but his major decisions could erode US hegemony in the global economy. Recently, he announced that the US will step away from the...

Demis Hassabis and Mustafa Suleyman, the co-founders of Google’s DeepMind, the developer of game-playing computer program AlphaGo, recently met with Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing and gave him an inside view of the world of artificial...

Innovation leads directly to the disruption of an existing industry. Just look at what Steve Jobs and his iPhone did to the mobile phone business. And in the future, artificial intelligence (AI) will fundamentally change how...

As soon as some bad news comes out, most investors react by dumping related shares. Is running away from risk always the right move? If you are only interested in risk-free income, buy some government bonds...

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett and his partner Charlie Munger spoke for hours at the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting in Omaha on Saturday. This year, the pair discussed a wide range of topics related to tech. Buffett...

Hong Kong’s stock market regained its momentum last week after consolidating for a while in mid-April. Was the strong performance spurred by investor relief over the results of the first round of the French presidential election,...

The market is often quite sensitive to words and actions coming from the US Federal Reserve. The US central bank indicated that it would consider reducing its balance sheet, according to the minutes of a Federal...

US equities pulled back as investors feared that the Federal Reserve would start reducing the size of its balance sheet later this year. The Fed’s decision obviously carries a lot of weight in the stock market....

Over the past 10 years, whoever is gutsy enough to invest in properties with borrowed money would have chalked up handsome gains. But can this strategy yield similar results in the coming years? I very much...

Several Chinese property developers posted sharp revenue and turnover growth last year, helping their share prices surge in Hong Kong. The rally saw some stocks even notch 50-100 percent gains over the last six months. The...

China’s retail sales rose 9.5 percent in February from the year before, making it one of the few sectors that maintain nearly double-digit growth rate. Online shopping has reported more than 30 percent growth, indicating that...

Financial markets had earlier been factoring in a 30 percent chance for a March rate hike by the US Federal Reserve. Now, after a series of comments from Fed officials, including chair Janet Yellen, the odds...

At the onset of the global financial crisis almost a decade ago, billionaire Warren Buffett made a bet with Ted Seides, head of hedge fund Protege Partners whether a passively managed index fund can outperform actively...

Gale Well Group made a few key decisions that helped the Hong Kong-based property investment firm grow its once-small portfolio to its current size of HK$35-40 billion. In interviews with the media, founder Jacinto Tong Man-leung...