HSBC and banking peers fall as Hong Kong recorded the biggest surge in infections since the onset of pandemic WuXi Biologics falls for a third day, bringing the slump to 26 per cent as investor dump ... ( read original story ...)
Coronavirus: Hong Kong’s brokers and banks shut branches as financial hub hunkers down for city’s worst coronavirus flare-up yet
Hong Kong confirmed 1,161 new infections today and reported two ... so the new measures would not have any impact on our business," said Hui. Everbright Securities International, formerly known as ... ( read original story ...)
Coronavirus: how this Bill Gates-backed Hong Kong start-up won US FDA approval for its Covid-19 rapid test kit amid strained US-China relations
He relocated its headquarters from California to Hong Kong in 2018. Do you have questions about the ... time was to develop a rapid test kit for the virus because that was our business - we were ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong leader “deeply sorry” for long queues amid COVID surge
HONG KONG, Feb 10 (Reuters) - Hong Kong's leader ... reaching billions of people worldwide every day. Reuters provides business, financial, national and international news to professionals via desktop ... ( read original story ...)
HSBC Private Banking looks to China for growth
HSBC’s head of global private banking in China, Jackie Mau, explains the lender’s onshore ambitions, the future of Wealth Connect, plans for new offices and how and why China differs from other ... ( read original story ...)
Asia-Based Investors Chase Pre-IPO Startups in the Region
Hello, it’s Vinicy in Hong Kong. In today’s Bloomberg Deals newsletter, I’m doing a deep dive into the pre-IPO market for investing in Asia. Plus, there’s a potential bid for the Denver Broncos from a ... ( read original story ...)
HSBC Expanding Hedge Fund Business to Draw Investment Into Asia
HSBC’s plans cut against a broader streamlining of its global banking and markets arm, whose risk-weighted assets have been steadily reduced and shifted from the U.S. to the U.K. and Hong Kong as part ... ( read original story ...)
Covid-19 outbreaks test Hong Kong’s quarantine policy, financial hub status
Its system of quarantine is under tremendous pressure as infections spread like wildfire. . Read more at straitstimes.com. ( read original story ...)
Covid live: Hong Kong daily cases nearly double in new wave; Poland could lift restrictions in March
Hong Kong battles rise as it brings in toughest pandemic measures to date; Polish health minister says Omicron infections dropping ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index leads gains as Asia markets rise; SoftBank Group shares soar almost 6%
Shares in Asia-Pacific rose on Wednesday. The Hang Seng index in Hong Kong soared 2.06% to close at 24,829 as Chinese tech stocks bounced back from their Tuesday losses. Shares of SoftBank Group ... ( read original story ...)
Asian markets surged; Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index outperform
Asian market on Wednesday trading in the green with Hong Kong leading gains. The Hang Seng index climbed over 1.9% as Chinese tech stocks bounced back from their Tuesday losses. South Korea’s Kospi ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong’s daily COVID-19 infections surge to record
An elderly man who returned a positive test for COVID-19 in Hong Kong died on Tuesday, the city's Hospital Authority said, the city's first death potentially linked with the virus in five months as it ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong’s young journalists decry the ‘death of free press’
Journalists broadly decried the “death of free press” in Hong Kong, whose vibrant media scene — at least 15 newspaper titles with a mix of political leanings and more than four news channels for a ... ( read original story ...)
Coronavirus: Indicaid’s rapid test kit production to rise fivefold as Phase Scientific goes into overdrive amid Hong Kong’s fifth Covid-19 wave
... the entire population The Home Affairs Department bought 300,000 kits from the firm ahead of the Lunar New Year Hong Kong biotech start-up Phase Scientific International (PSI) aims to raise its ... ( read original story ...)