Stock Market

AIA profit rises 89pc to beat market target

28 Feb 2013

AIA Group's net income rose to US$3 billion, or 25.1 US cents a share, in the year to November from US$1.6 billion, or 13.3 US cents a share, a year earlier, the company said in a statement to the...

Italian election impasse roils world markets, shakes Europe

27 Feb 2013

The Milan stock market plunged and Italy's borrowing rates jumped after centre-left Democratic Party leader Pier Luigi Bersani scraped a razor-thin victory in the lower house of parliament but the...

Stocks dive on fear of further tightening

22 Feb 2013

Mainland stocks posted their biggest single-day loss in nearly 15 months yesterday as skittish investors were battered by worries of further government tightening measures in the property sector...

Rail ministry's debts bring biggest freight fees rise in a decade

21 Feb 2013

The crushing debt burden of the Ministry of Railways has compelled Beijing to impose the biggest rise in rail freight tariffs in a decade. Although that may be bad news for freighters, it came as...

Hong Kong stocks set for bullish start to the Year of the Snake

14 Feb 2013

Hong Kong stocks could open the Year of the Snake on a bullish note as Asian markets rose after US corporate earnings sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average to a five-year high.

Opinion

Jake Van Der Kamp

An age-old problem and the sums that just don't add up

Howard Winn

HSBC suffers the Taibbi treatment in Rolling Stone

Shirley Yam

How tycoons' IPO 'losses' may hide profits at herd's expense

Year of the Snake is a year to buy gold

The Year of the Snake, according to fung shui master Wong Man-chiu, will continue to be a volatile year in both the macro economy and the stock and property markets.

Kingway shares climb after sale of breweries announced

Shares of Kingway Brewery Holdings rose 7 per cent yesterday after the company announced it was selling its brewery business for 5.58 billion yuan (HK$6.87 billion) to China Resources Snow...

Beware of mixed economic signals

Investors should heed conflicting economic signals. If they had predicted last week where the next negative sign was coming from, many would have said Europe, which is unlikely to emerge from its...

STOCKS

Chinalco Mining tumbles 6.3pc on trading debut

The sharp price fall might have been caused by retail investors, who tended to have a short investment horizon and were not familiar with the company's operations and outlook, analysts said.

MONITOR

Stock market under Guo shows how politics clashes with reform

Hopes are riding high that China's new leaders will live up to their promises and press ahead with much-needed economic reforms.

But a look at the mainland's stock market and how it is...

EQUITIES

Hang Seng soars as mainland rally excites investors

Investors were also excited by the onshore market, which rallied for a third day after a mainland official said Taiwanese institutional investors might have an extra 100 billion yuan (HK$123...