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The number of sale and purchase agreements for all building units received for registration in January was 9,917.

New bank loans in the mainland during January hit US$182.89 billion, which overshot the central bank's cut-off target by at least 20 percent.

Hong Kong registered the highest annual office rents growth in Asia Pacific outranking Beijing, Singapore and Shanghai.

The sales volume of miscellaneous consumer durable goods registered the highest growth.

Thirty of Hong Kong incomes are sandwiched between private housing and the government's public rental housing. This trend is expected to continue for the next 20 years.

Singapore was overtaken by Hong Kong as the most globalised economy in the world.

The surplus in December was mainly due to the receipt of $33.8 billion in investment income on fiscal reserves.

More firms are making the switch from the Growth Enterprise Market to the main board this year than last year. Most of them are small and medium- sized enterprises.

Hong Kong's property market is expected to grow after the Lunar New Year although it has slowed down ahead of the festival.

Decline in foreign currency assets was due to a decrease in unsettled purchases of securities, behind valuation gains on foreign currency investments.

Total loans recorded a 28.6% increase last year, according to Hong Kong Information Services Department.

The Exchange Fund investment return was 3.6%, according to Monetary Authority Chief Executive Norman Chan.

The five-year bond aimed to support clean technology project in China.

Appeal follows another one filed by the airline in the Seoul High Court challenging a similar decision by the Korean Fair Trade Commission.

The value of Hong Kong's total goods exports rose 12.5% y-o-y in December.

December aggregate value of residential mortgage loans in negative equity down by $50 million from value in September.