Finance

Business Confidence In Japan Rebounding: Tankan

Major Japanese manufacturers are feeling optimistic for the first time since the pandemic began, a key survey showed on ... Read more

Tech Surge Helps Wall Street End Quarter Up

The S&P 500 and Nasdaq rose on Wednesday, boosted by gains in technology shares, and the three major Wall Street ind... Read more

Boeing Tells Washington: Don't Mix Rights, Trade

Boeing urged the United States on Wednesday to keep disputes over human rights and other topics separate from trade rela... Read more

More Electoral System Briefings Held

Principal government officials today continued to meet representatives from different sectors to explain the improveme... Read more

R&D Funding Scheme Opens

The Innovation & Technology Commission today launched the 2021 Mainland-Hong Kong Joint Funding Scheme to invite ... Read more

London Investors Turn Sour On Deliveroo Debut

Shares in Deliveroo plunged by as much as 30 percent in their trading debut on Wednesday, slicing more than US$2 billion... Read more

Local Shares Pulled Down By Late HKEX Plunge

Local shares took a beating just before the market close on Wednesday, with heavyweight Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing... Read more

H&M Dedicated To Regaining Chinas Trust

H&M reported a quarterly loss on Wednesday and said that it was dedicated to regaining the trust of shoppers in Chin... Read more

Mainland Factory Activity Gains Steam In March

Factory activity in China picked up in March, official data showed on Wednesday, as the country's economic recovery broa... Read more

US Stocks Close Lower As Bond Yields Rise

US stocks ended down slightly on Tuesday, with investors selling tech-related growth shares after US Treasury yields hit... Read more

Activist Investors Pressure Companies Over Xinjiang

A group of religious and socially conscious investors and other funds are ramping up pressure on Western companies over ... Read more

Mortgage Loans Up 1%

Residential mortgage loans approved in February increased 1% compared with January to $38.1 billion, the Monetary Auth... Read more

New Inspection Regime Balanced

The new inspection regime for the Companies Register has struck a reasonable balance between continuing to allow publi... Read more

Fresh Vaccine Hopes Lift HK, Regional Stocks

Hong Kong and most regional stocks headed north on Tuesday as the US dollar hit a one-year high and optimism about progr... Read more

Wall Street Takes Hedge Default In Its Stride

The S&P 500 ended just slightly in the red on Monday, with bank shares falling amid warnings of potential losses fro... Read more