Last week, before news broke about the hacking of Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck Inc., I conducted a little Twitter poll. The results were enlightening, and somewhat disheartening. At the end of last week, someone stole 523 million NEM coins, worth around $500 million, from Coincheck. It took about eight hours for the exchange to even notice that its wallet had ...

Brexit’s pending arrival has some companies pulling out. Hong Kong investors are going the other way. With the purchase of London’s iconic Cheesegrater building and the city’s Walkie Talkie skyscraper, investors from Hong Kong were the single biggest buyers of office property last year, accounting for 44 percent of total funds spent. It’s not just the weaker pound, but also ...

What a difference a few time zones make. Shares in Wynn Resorts Ltd. fell 10.1 percent in the US on Friday after the Wall Street Journal reported that dozens of former employees had alleged sexual misconduct by the group’s founder and Chief Executive Officer Steve Wynn. Investors in Hong Kong were far less concerned. Stock in Wynn Macau Ltd. was ...