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Ho Sin Hang, chairman of the Hang Seng Bank, conceived the idea of creating the Hang Seng Index as a "Dow Jones Index for Hong Kong". [4] [5] Along with Hang Seng Director Lee Quo-wei, he commissioned Hang Seng's head of Research Stanley Kwan to create the index in 1964, [4] the index was initially used for internal reference in the Hang Seng Bank, they debuted the index on November 24, 1969.
Hang Seng China 50 Index (Chinese: 恒生神州50指數) is a pan-China stock market index to represent the top 50 China-based companies in the stock exchanges of Hong Kong, Shanghai and Shenzhen, which covers A share (shares circulated in mainland China), H share (shares circulated in Hong Kong from the mainland China incorporated company), red chip (shares circulated in Hong Kong from the ...
The Hong Kong securities market can be traced back to 1866, but the stock market was formally set up in 1891, when the Association of Stockbrokers in Hong Kong was established. [8] It was renamed as The Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 1914. By 1972, Hong Kong had four stock exchanges in operation.
Stock indexes were down 0.1% in Shanghai and nearly flat in Hong Kong, while Canada’s main index edged down by less than 0.1%. ... The yield on the 10-year Treasury inched up to 4.29% from 4.28% ...
Stock disaster in 1983 (Negotiation deadlock between China and United Kingdom on Transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong) Stock disaster in 1987 (Black Monday) Stock disaster in 1989 (Tiananmen Square protests) 1990s. Bear market from 1997 to 1998 (Asian financial crisis) 2000s. Stock disaster in 2000 (Dot-com bubble) Stock disaster in 2003 ...
Second Opium War: 1859: Hercules Robinson: ... 2010 Hong Kong new year march ... Timeline of Chinese history; Hong Kong 1 July marches;
February 2019 – Hong Kong's Security Bureau proposes amendments to extradition laws that would allow extraditions to countries, including mainland China, beyond the 20 states with which Hong ...
The two exchanges merged to form the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 1947 and re-establish the stock market after the Second World War. Rapid growth of the Hong Kong economy led to the establishment of three other exchanges – the Far East Exchange in 1969; the Kam Ngan Stock Exchange in 1971; and the Kowloon Stock Exchange in 1972.