While little news or video footage of the Hong Kong protests made its way into mainland China in the early weeks, the subject now dominates the news and most-read topic lists on China’s Twitter ... ( read original story ...)
HSBC Calls for Peaceful Ways to Resolve Differences in Hong Kong
Photographer: Justin Chin/Bloomberg Photographer: Justin Chin/Bloomberg HSBC Holdings Plc broke its silence on the protests roiling Hong Kong, calling for a peaceful resolution to differences in the ... ( read original story ...)
HSBC, Standard Chartered among banks condemning Hong Kong violence in newspaper ads
Some of Hong Kong’s biggest banks published full-page newspaper advertisements on Thursday calling for the preservation of law and order in the Chinese territory and condemning violence, as ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong Faces Worst Earnings Recession Since 2008 Crisis
(Bloomberg) -- Hong Kong stocks are poised for their worst quarter since 2015 ... would be the biggest contraction for Hang Seng Index companies since the global financial crisis, data compiled by ... ( read original story ...)
Banks in Hong Kong condemn violence, urge restoration of ‘harmony’
Standard Chartered said in Thursday’s advertisements the bank supported the special administrative region’s government to uphold social order and “guard the status of Hong Kong as an ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong protests: What do young people want?
Earlier in the summer he watched news of the anti-extradition protest from the UK and returned to Hong Kong to join the movement. "If we are not going to do it, no-one is going to do it," he says, ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement sparks propaganda ‘battle of the bands’
In the propaganda war between protesters in Hong Kong and the government in Beijing, Tommy Yuen is an unlikely hero. The 39-year-old singer admits he’s something of a ‘has been,’ and almost ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong’s stock market faces a drought of initial public offerings as valuations take a plunge to among the lowest in Asia
Companies looking to list in Hong Kong have put their initial public offerings (IPOs) on hold amid an annual decline of as much as 40 per cent in the valuations of new share offerings in some cases, ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong’s US dollar peg could be a weak link if protests continue to drag, China scholar warns
Zhou Luohua, vice-president of the Chongyang Finance Research Institute at the Renmin University of China, says the peg could prove to be city’s ‘Achilles’ heel’ The Hong Kong dollar has been pegged ... ( read original story ...)
Frontline view: Making the case for violence in Hong Kong protests
Unlike the Umbrella movement in 2014, when a largely peaceful 79-day occupation of Hong Kong’s financial area failed to achieve its aim of universal suffrage, a more confrontational stance from some ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong Faces Worst Earnings Recession Since the 2008 Crisis
(Bloomberg) -- Hong Kong stocks are poised for their worst ... contraction for Hang Seng Index companies since the global financial crisis, data compiled by Bloomberg show. While a protracted ... ( read original story ...)
Alibaba postpones up to $15-billion Hong Kong listing amid protests: sources
China’s biggest e-commerce company Alibaba Group Holding Ltd has delayed its up to $15-billion listing in Hong Kong amid growing political unrest in the Asian financial hub, two people with knowledge ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong protesters gather at mob-attack subway as bank warns of economic fallout
BEA and its rivals have closed branches in the vicinity of protests which are already exacting a toll on Hong Kong’s economy and tourism – the Asian financial hub is on the verge of its first ... ( read original story ...)
Hitting Hong Kong tycoons where it hurts
Demonstrators in Hong Kong clash with police. The Hang Seng Index is on track ... Sponsor Content by Hewlett Packard Enterprise For credit and debit card incidents alone, financial losses to banks and ... ( read original story ...)