♠ Posted by Emmanuel in Casino Capitalism,China at 8/27/2015 12:51:00 PM
Islamabad or bust: HK stocks can now be bought more cheaply than Pakistan’s.
Having a powerful economy in your orbit, Big Brother style, has its benefits and drawbacks. For the longest time, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKSE) has benefited from riding China’s slipstream: Late last year, mainland China overtook Japan […]
The number of Chinese people who access the Internet via their smartphones is soaring and many of them are using those phones to trade stock.
About 56.28 million Chinese stock or fund investors who used the Internet to trade during the first half of 2015, a 47.4% increase from the end of 2014, according to a report published by the China […]
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Digital War [Publisher’s Note: This article arrived yesterday August 5, 2014, but is being published on August 6, 2014]Today at 8AM a cease fire has been declared in operation Protective Edge. The public discussion over the operation, however, will stay with us for a long time. Public opinion is one of the key influence factors on countries and people behavior. […]
Years ago, when I was working on a MNC account, the MD of the Indian operations (a Canadian) asked why his ads (for an FMCG brand) were not shown on sports channels during telecast of golf tournaments. When I told him that the numbers didn’t warrant it, he said, ‘but all my friends watch golf’. That’s the trouble with hanging […]
