Hong Kong stocks

Six companies launch Hong Kong offerings worth up to HK$19.8 billion

The launches come as global markets stabilise following a ceasefire agreement in the Middle East

Pressured by China’s struggling economy and doubts on Chinese firms’ heavy AI spending, the Hang Seng Index has fallen 3% this year.

Hong Kong market faces pressure as HK$255 billion in locked shares expire in July

The potential wave of selling poses an additional headwind for the city’s struggling equity market

Xiaohongshu has grown into a lifestyle and social-commerce powerhouse in China’s online arena.

Xiaohongshu targets end of June for confidential Hong Kong IPO: sources

The potential listing that could rank among the city’s largest in recent years

With about 400 companies in the pipeline, maiden share sales in Hong Kong are poised to top US$43 billion this year, in what would be a six-year high.

Hong Kong issuers seek to boost trading in overlooked stocks

The city stock listings have continued to boom this year, driven by companies in the AI supply chain

Futu founder and billionaire Leaf Li is accelerating a global push away from China, which could help him bounce back.

Futu founder ‘Brother Leaf’ humbled by China broker crackdown

Income from Hong Kong and overseas brand Moomoo should easily offset pressure from the ban

Caution among the financial firms and mainland investors could weigh on sales of insurance policies, wealth management products and stock offerings in Hong Kong.
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There are more than 270 Jollibee-branded stores outside of the Philippines, including in the US, Canada, Singapore, the Middle East, Italy, Spain and the UK.

Jollibee mulls moving US listing to booming Hong Kong: sources

The Philippines-based fast-food group aims to do the listing by the end of next year

China penalised 3 online brokers including Futu for operating without a licence, confiscating all illegal gains from their securities business.

Futu to suspend Chinese mainland investors from adding new positions

The service halts are in line with regulators’ requirements for overseas institutions to wind down prohibited activities

Investors’ patience is wearing thin after four consecutive months of Hong Kong stocks’ underperformance to onshore peers.

Chinese investors exit Hong Kong stocks as AI woos money onshore

Flows are increasingly shifting to mainland-listed semiconductors and other AI-linked shares

Mainland funds have regularly stepped in to buy the dip in internet heavyweights like Tencent.

China investors turn sellers of Hong Kong stocks in rare reversal

[HONG KONG] Chinese mainland investors turned net sellers of Hong Kong stocks for the first time in nearly three years in May, underscoring waning confidence in the city’s market.