Students given canisters with red chips ate less than half the amount than those without red chips.
Of the 90 or so Red Chips, only about 10 meet stringent listing requirements outlined in the paper.
" Though he thinks some red chips are overvalued, Bhaskaran says, "The Hang Seng Index is ready to soar.
There are some B shares which are well worth looking at that also have lagged behind the red chips.
You have to look at two different markets, red chips and B shares.
Red Chips are Hong Kong-listed offshore subsidiaries of Chinese state-owned enterprises.
Several red chips conducted multibillion-dollar public stock offerings in recent years.
Investors, in their more rational moments, say the high price-earnings multiples of red chips, often two or three times those of blue chips, are justified by the prospects of economic growth on the mainland.
As Jardine Fleming, a Hong Kong stockbroker, points out, the creation of red chips is merely a continuation of a trend that began in the early 1970s with a big increase in the number of listed companies controlled by Hong Kong Chinese families.
As a former mayor puts it, the city has gone from white pines to red tape to blue chips.
There was juice in Styrofoam cups and potato chips on little red plastic plates.
"What we found out was our cafeteria had actually been operating in the red even selling soda and potato chips hand over fist, " she said.
The chairs are covered in fake zebra fur and small wooden tables are set with red candles and bowls of stale potato chips.
The Yankees and Red Sox had the cash, the allure, the eight-figure contracts stacked like chips on green fabric.
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He built the business into a colossus and himself into a multimillionaire with a bright red Ferrari, though for much of that time he was the unknown man eating egg and chips in the lorry park, with oily hands from all that cleaning.
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