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In economic news, the NY Federal Reserve said its Empire State manufacturing index came in at negative 10.7 for November – up from negative 11.36 for the previous month.
About an hour later, a mob chased another fan in a red T-shirt and wearing a mask of Hong Kong coach Kim Pan Gon who they accused of being an official of the central government liaison office.
With two games to go, China are now scrambling to reach the third round as one of the four best-performing second-placed teams as they lie third, and also trail rivals among the other seven groups on points.
The Hang Seng finished sharply lower on Monday following losses from the financials, properties, utilities and oil companies.
The Shanghai market closed down to 1.43 percent at the end of Friday ahead of the disclosure.
The push into China’s fixed-income and currencies markets was in line with HKEx’s long-term strategy to replicate the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect, which launched a year ago, across multiple asset classes.
Australia has 15 points from six games in Group B. Jordan slipped two points behind Australia when it lost 1-0 to Kyrgyzstan.
The premium enjoyed by mainland equities may be deterring worldwide investors, who have sold stocks in Shanghai for 20 straight days though yesterday in the longest stretch of outflows since the programme began.
Momentum indicators also show the diverging performance of mainland and Hong Kong equities.
Shares in Hong Kong ended the Wednesday morning session marginally higher as investors await minutes from the Federal Reserve’s October policy meeting hoping for clues about its plans for hiking interest rates. Concerns about a wider conflict prompted a sharp decline at the start of trading, but the major averages quickly recovered and raced into positive territory.
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The Consul General recalled that the Angola Sovereign Fund planned to diversify its portfolio with investments in industrial sectors and in various assets and with this in mind “Hong Kong capital markets offer vast versatility, as well as access into the Chinese market”.
