Finance

IBond Allocation Announced

Subscription and allocation results for the eighth inflation-linked iBond were released today, with each valid applica... Read more

HK Pivotal In Bay Area I&T Drive

I am very pleased to attend today's ceremony to commend 50 outstanding students, who are the recipients of the 2020 an... Read more

Canberra Goes To WTO Over China Wine Duties

Australia is lodging a formal complaint with the World Trade Organization over China's imposition of anti-dumping duties... Read more

Hawkish Fed Concerns Lead To Wall Street Sell-off

All three main indices on Wall Street dropped Friday with investors wary of a more hawkish stance from the US Federal Re... Read more

HSBC Takes Hit With Sale Of French Retail Bank

HSBC on Friday said it will incur a hefty charge with the sale of its French retail banking operations to French lender ... Read more

HSI Ends With Gains But Posts Slight Weekly Loss

Local shares shook off concerns over earlier-than-expected interest rate hikes to finish higher on Friday. The Hang S... Read more

HK Stocks Edge Up On Open

Hong Kong stocks opened up slightly on Friday as traders try to gauge when the US Federal Reserve will start tapering it... Read more

Nasdaq Rises On Recovery Hopes But Other Indices Fall

Conviction in the strength of the economic recovery pushed investors into US technology stocks on Thursday, driving the ... Read more

US FCC Votes On Chinese Telecom Equipment Ban

The US Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously on Thursday to advance a plan to ban approvals for equipment ... Read more

Taxpayers To Get Surcharge Waiver

The Inland Revenue Department announced today that it will waive the surcharge for tax payment by instalments for busi... Read more

Launch Of Consumption Vouchers

(To watch the full press conference with sign language interpretation, click here.)   The Government said today that... Read more

Inspection Regime To Run In Phases

The Financial Services & the Treasury Bureau today said subsidiary legislations have been gazetted to implement th... Read more

US Jobless Figures Unexpectedly Rise

New applications for US unemployment benefits increased last week for the first time in seven weeks, according to govern... Read more

HK Shares Reverse From Losses

The Hang Seng Index in Hong Kong rebounded thanks to auto and handset equipment shares, while other markets in the regio... Read more

Hong Kong Stocks Slide On US Rates Fears

Hong Kong stocks sank at the open of business on Thursday morning after the latest Federal Reserve policy meeting left i... Read more