Hong Kong’s spending should not grow faster than its income, even though the city’s finances are improving, the financial secretary has said, added that the market expects the government to invest more to boost the economy. But Paul Chan Mo-po on Sunday also painted a rosy picture for the city’s retail sector, revealing that sales…
Hong Kong’s economy expanded by 3.5 per cent in 2025, marking the city’s third consecutive year of growth and surpassing an earlier forecast of 3.2 per cent. Advance estimates released by the Census and Statistics Department on Friday also showed gross domestic product (GDP) in the fourth quarter increased by 3.8 per cent compared with…
Hong Kong boasts the strongest institutional environment of any major financial hub but lags in growth and future readiness, according to a new index launched by New York University Abu Dhabi on Tuesday. The inaugural Financial Centres Competitiveness Index (FFCI), unveiled at Abu Dhabi Finance Week, ranked Hong Kong fourth overall, behind New York, London…
(Bloomberg) — Wall Street thought blowout earnings from Nvidia Corp (NVDA) would calm investors’ nerves about a bubble forming in artificial intelligence stocks. They didn’t. Most Read from Bloomberg So where does the AI trade stand now? It depends who you ask. On one side you have the skeptics. They’re concerned about soaring market valuations…
Shares of enterprise software giant Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) fell 5.7% in the afternoon session after a mix of negative news created headwinds for the company, including a potential cybersecurity breach, rising credit risk, and skepticism about its ability to quickly turn its AI investments into revenue. The decline occurred as concerns grew over high valuations for…
Thursday was a bizarre day in the stock market. Investors are still scratching their heads over what caused a sudden and dramatic reversal around midday after a morning of solid gains, but there might be some clues in the latest bout of bitcoin selling. The Dow was up as much as 700 points in Thursday’s…
Russia’s stock market rallied at the start of Friday’s trading session amid reports of a new Trump administration plan to end the war in Ukraine, raising hopes that officials in Kyiv and Moscow may soon sign a peace agreement after nearly four years of fighting. The Moscow Exchange Index (MOEX) climbed 2.4%, reaching 2,691 points…
The U.S. stock market sank sharply in early trading, with investors increasingly skittish about the strength of the artificial intelligence boom. The S&P 500, which set a record high in late October, fell 78 points, or 1.2%, to 6,594 roughly an hour into Tuesday’s session. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite dropped…
The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged more than 300 points, or 0.7%, Tuesday as fears over an AI bubble shook the market and traders fretted that rate cuts from the Federal Reserve aren’t a sure thing. The S&P 500 had dipped 0.3% while the tech-heavy Nasdaq had fallen 0.6% as of about 1:15 p.m. ET…
If you read any of WIRED’s recent AI edition, you know that lots of people are spending lots of time talking about how the technology is revolutionizing pretty much everything—from coding to writing to accounting. You’ve also probably heard by now, from us or somebody else, that we might very well be in an economic…