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China Business

Hong Kong seeks tech exposure amid Beijing’s rising AI dominance

The city is looking to expand stock benchmarks in an effort to challenge Nasdaq’s tech dominance.

China’s quant funds have edge on foreign rivals, as Beijing curbs trading speed

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Exclusive | HKEX to launch debate over extending trading hours despite pushback, sources say

Banking & Finance

What are China’s quantitative trading funds, and why are they so controversial?

China’s quant funds face scrutiny from retail traders and regulators, driven by their large returns and use of AI.

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Critics argue that AI-driven strategies exacerbate volatility in a market still dominated by more than 250 million retail investors. Photo: Getty Images
Critics argue that AI-driven strategies exacerbate volatility in a market still dominated by more than 250 million retail investors. Photo: Getty Images

Business

Hong Kong property recovery faces new risk as Beijing widens offshore tax net

Potential taxation of offshore property income could curb mainland demand, while weaker insurance activity hits decentralised office markets.

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Wealth

Rich Hongkongers rank travel over real estate in shifting life goals: survey

Immersive travel and early retirement rank above real estate on the priority list of wealthy individuals, according to a new report.

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Companies

Wharf firms up balance sheet as Hong Kong sales cushion profit slump

‘Our first choice is investment in Hong Kong’s property sector’, while mainland China lacks ‘good opportunities’, chairman says.

Revenue from Wharf’s Hong Kong development properties nearly tripled in the first half, with operating profit rising more than fivefold. Photo: Eugene Lee
Revenue from Wharf’s Hong Kong development properties nearly tripled in the first half, with operating profit rising more than fivefold. Photo: Eugene Lee

Big Tech

Alibaba says it can build AI data centres in 100 days with modular design

With CUBE 5.0, Alibaba Cloud expects to more than double modular data centre delivery efficiency this year amid AI boom, report says.

Tech Trends

Unitree IPO deluge masks humanoid robots’ limitations

Retail investors subscribed for more than 5,500 times the shares on offer in Unitree Robotics’ offering amid hype about advances for humanoid robots and a run of Shanghai IPO windfalls.

Companies

Gap bucks retail headwinds with massive China expansion amid localisation drive

Gap’s plan for dozens of new stores and return to Hong Kong market comes as Ralph Lauren also posted a 40 per cent year-on-year jump in China sales in past quarter.

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A Gap location is seen in Shanghai. Photo: Shutterstock

Banking & Finance

Shein set for Hong Kong IPO next week, eyes US$35b valuation: sources

Singapore-based company, which was founded in China, aims to raise as much as US$2.8 billion and began gauging investor demand last week.

Packs of clothing for Shein are displayed at a garment factory in Guangzhou, in southern China’s Guangdong province, on July 2. Photo: Reuters
Packs of clothing for Shein are displayed at a garment factory in Guangzhou, in southern China’s Guangdong province, on July 2. Photo: Reuters

China Business

Gold breakout rally sends Chinese bullion stocks near record highs

Sovereign-debt risks and reserve diversification seen helping revive investor optimism in the precious-metals market.

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China EVs

Tesla faces uphill battle against Beijing’s new standards for self-driving cars

Data regulation is a key issue facing the US electric vehicle giant in China, according to experts.

Markets

Index compiler plans to add 20 more stocks to Hong Kong’s main tech tracker

Hang Seng Indexes Company says expanded 50-constituent index would feature 10 fastest-growing companies, irrespective of market cap.

The headquarters of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing, which operates the Hong Kong stock market, are at Exchange Square in Central. Photo: Sun Yeung

Tech Trends

Unitree IPO frenzy leaves retail investors with 1-in-5,500 odds

Robotics company’s US$900 million Star Market listing offers slimmer odds than recent offerings by CXMT, Moore Threads and MetaX.

Children stand near Unitree robots on display at a store in Beijing on Monday. Photo: Reuters
Children stand near Unitree robots on display at a store in Beijing on Monday. Photo: Reuters

Banking & Finance

China’s banks look to unload US$8.2b in bad credit-card loans

The pace of disposal efforts has accelerated since July, coinciding with the country’s slowing economy.

Business

Hong Kong’s commercial property investment growth beats Asian peers

‘Highly active’ market in city tops Singapore and Australia, although base effect, assets in receivership contribute to increase, JLL says.

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China Business

China’s drug makers are speeding up – will AI be their secret weapon?

Chinese biotech firms are striking big global deals as drug makers, but could artificial intelligence take them to the next level?

Illustration by Henry Wong
Illustration by Henry Wong

Markets

Can Hong Kong’s listing reform 2.0 win over innovative firms?

The reforms enhance the city’s appeal for AI, biotech and other firms by slashing the market cap threshold and enabling confidential filings.

Big Tech

Competition or ‘co-opetition’: how is convergence shaping Sino-US AI race?

Speech by CEO of Chinese AI start-up at Nvidia event in US highlights symbiotic nature of tech relationship despite geopolitical tensions.

China EVs

How China’s EV makers think they can outrun disastrous price wars

At Beijing’s urging, an industry largely built on discounting must hold the line on prices and convince buyers to pay for better technology.

Illustration: Lau Ka-kuen
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OPINION
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Macroscope | US efforts to prop up the yen risk doing more harm than good

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Opinion | Hong Kong must wake up to the cold hard geopolitics of AI

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