Finance

Amazon Says Cloud Outage Triggered By Upgrade

A giant outage of Amazon's cloud-computing network in the US, which impacted large users such as media companies, was tr... Read more

S&P 500, Nasdaq End At Records, Extending Rally

The S&P 500 and Nasdaq both closed at records on Friday as markets continued to look past rising coronavirus cases t... Read more

India Enters Recession, Worst Among Major Economies

India's economy contracted 7.5 percent between July and September, performing the poorest among major advanced and emerg... Read more

Mainland Banks Propel HSI To End On High Note

Local shares have extended their winning streak to six days, breaching the 27,000-mark at one stage on Friday, thanks to... Read more

Australia Says No Basis For Wine Dumping Move

Australia on Friday said it was "extremely disappointed" in China's decision to impose preliminary tariffs on Australian... Read more

Hang Seng Finishes Morning Session With Losses

Hong Kong stocks stocks closed Friday morning in the red as profit-takers moved in following a five-day, vaccine-fuelled... Read more

HK Boosts Role As Global Aviation Hub

Chief Secretary Matthew Cheung today said Hong Kong’s status as a global aviation hub will be enhanced by allowing t... Read more

Ocean Park To Synergise With Jumbo

(To watch the full press conference with sign language interpretation, click here.)   Secretary for Commerce & Ec... Read more

HK Shares Advance As Tokyo And Seoul Hit New Highs

Local stocks rose in line with a regional rally, sustaining a rally fueled by optimism over Covid-19 vaccines. The Ha... Read more

Private Home Prices, Rents At Their Lowest In Months

Latest government figures showed both private home prices and rents in Hong Kong have slipped to their lowest levels in ... Read more

Pandemic Job Losses Hit US Equities

US stock markets closed mostly lower on Wednesday, as mounting US layoffs in the wake of new mandated lockdowns to conta... Read more

Emergency Alert System Launched

The Government today launched the emergency alert system to disseminate important real-time messages to mobile phone ... Read more

Scrapping Stamp Duty Helps Economy

(To watch the full press conference with sign language interpretation, click here.)   Secretary for Financial Service... Read more

LeaveHomeSafe App Benefits Public

(To watch the full press conference with sign language interpretation, click here.)   Secretary for Innovation & ... Read more

Local Shares Rise Despite Falls Elsewhere In Asia

Local shares recorded modest gains on Wednesday, after the Chief Executive said Beijing supports deepening exchanges bet... Read more