Hong Kong
Funds raised by Hong Kong IPOs down 37% to $85.7b
Funds raised by Hong Kong IPOs down 37% to $85.7b
But the number of IPOs increased 52% to 114.
400,000 passengers departed Hong Kong in Mid-Autumn Festival
Over 320,000 have arrived.
Property sales dropped 20.7% to 7,540 deals
Total consideration was $56.6b.
Dwellworks moves into new corporate home in The Hennessy, Wanchai
They transformed the new office into a home-like workspace.
AI is taking the tedium out of recruitment
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Retail sales value up 2.7% to $34.8b
Volumte of total retail sales inched up by 3.2%.
Hong Kong's deficit hit $15.7b in August
Expenditure, on the other hand, hit $36.87b.
Approved mortgage loans fall 10.8% to $30.1b
Loans for refinancing dropped 8.1%.
RMB deposits dipped 0.4% to RMB532.8b
Overall foreign-currency deposits inched up 0.3%.
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Hong Kong expects 9.24m passengers during festive periods
Immigration Department will boost manpower at control points.
Hong Kong's financial services gradually leveraging blockchain
52% of CFOs say blockchain improved their businesses.
Average wage rate hikes by 3.8%
Almost 7 in 10 companies implemented hikes.
Government mulls over reviewing labour shortage
It will probe local productivity.
Hong Kong's total goods exports value rose 7.4%
That of goods imports ticked up 7.7%.
John Aaroe Group's Aaron Kirman on the 'tremendous' impact of Chinese investment on foreign real estate markets
Chinese investment reached over $70b since 2016.
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