HONG KONG (XFN-ASIA) - Trade was cautious as quarterly earnings of Merrill Lynch, Google and Microsoft, released after US market close Thursday, missed analyst estimates, and ahead of banking giant Citigroup's results tonight....
HONG KONG, July 18 (Xinhua) -- Turnover dropped to 59.57 billion HK dollars (7.64 billion U.S. dollars) from Thursday's 63.46 billion HK dollars (8.13 billion U.S. dollars). Blue-chip heavyweight HSBC, which accounts for the...
ZHUMADIAN, July 17, SinoCast -- Henan Topfond Pharmaceutical Co., LTD. (SHSE: 600253) today announces that it will borrow CNY 45 million from Bank of Communications (BOCOM; SEHK: 3328; SHSE: 601328) and apply to Agricultural...
HONG KONG (Thomson Financial) - Hong Kong shares ended the morning session higher on Thursday, with investors hoping that China may start easing its monetary policy after inflation declined and growth slowed, lifting corporate...
HONG KONG (XFN-ASIA) - Select China blue chips also saw some bargain-hunting after yesterday's sharp falls, but H-shares were weighed down overall by profit-warnings from Huaneng Power and Huadian Power. Oil producer CNOOC fell...
BEIJING, July 15 -- "Not quite six months into the year ... China has already suffered more shocks to its economy than the previous few years combined," said Wang Tao, head of the China economic research unit of UBS, in a...
HONG KONG, July 15 (Xinhua) -- Turnover rose to 65.79 billion HK dollars (8.43 billion U.S. dollars) from Monday's 58.4 billion HK dollars (7.49 billion U.S. dollars). Blue-chip heavyweight HSBC, which accounts for the largest...
SHANGHAI BUND WITH CHOW HOW BAN Shanghai forecasts typhoons and thunderstorms during the Olympics. IT will be a rainy, hot and windy period when Shanghai hosts 12 of the Olympic Games football matches next month. The matches...
HONG KONG (Thomson Financial) - Hong Kong shares were little changed on Friday as persistent worries over rising oil prices curbed investor enthusiasm for bargain-hunting. At 10:28 a.m. (0228 GMT), the Hang Seng index was up...
Further gains in Chinese banks on a positive earnings outlook pushed Hong Kong stocks slightly higher Thursday. The blue-chip Hang Seng Index rose 16 points, or 0.07 percent, to 21,821.78 after trading between 21,498.87 and...