NO. 105 WHARF: Yen Kuang-heng allegedly used his position as a legislator to pressure the port to outsource management of the wharf, which a Yen family-connected firm wonBy Shelley Shan / Staff reporter
The New Power Party (NPP) yesterday accused former Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) legislator Yen Kuang-heng (顏寬恆) in 2016 of abusing his power by removing the legal hurdles to his family securing a 20-year lease of the No. 105 wharf in the Port of Taichung.
Yen is the KMT’s candidate in a legislative by-election in Taichung’s second electoral district on Jan. 9 next year, following the recall of then-Taiwan Statebuilding Party legislator Chen Po-wei (陳柏惟) last month.
NPP deputy caucus whip Chen Jiau-hua (陳椒華) told a news conference that the No. 105 wharf is a strategically important infrastructure and the Taiwan International
If you’re an equity investor, who would you trust most? An analyst at Goldman Sachs or an analyst at Haitong Securities?
It may not sound like a relevant comparison, but if you’re a Chinese equity analyst wondering whether to join the growing ranks of international investment banks in Hong Kong and mainland China, then your bargaining power has just got stronger.
That’s because local Chinese analysts are more accurate than their foreign peers when it comes to earnings forecasts, an academic study has found.
The study of stock recommendations of China A Shares, found that local analysts are 9-10% more optimistic in their target prices than their foreign peers, and 17-25% more optimistic in their stock recommendations. “These biases are highly significant in a statistical sense,” says the report’s authors Wen Jiu, Joshua Livnat, Sean Lu and Ziyue Zeng at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Wind power firms’ fees boost TIPC’s profits
HURT BY PANDEMIC The state-owned firm took a hit with the loss of income from cruise ship visits as the result of COVID-19, while cargo tonnage handled also dropped
By Shelley Shan / Staff reporter
Taiwan International Port Corp (TIPC) yesterday reported a net profit for last year of NT$6.5 billion (US$228.33 million), thanks to fees collected from wind power firms accessing the facilities at the Port of Taichung.
The number of containers handled at the nation’s five commercial seaports last year was down 4.61 percent to 15.29 million TEUs (20-foot equivalent units), TIPC chairman Lee Hsien-yi (李賢義) told a media briefing.
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