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Hong Kong shares rebounded slightly yesterday, as a rising yen boosted index heavyweight HSBC and utility stocks.
The Hang Seng Index finished 79.53 points higher at 6,859.48, following Tuesday's sell-off, which took the market to a five-year low.
HSBC rose 1.29 per cent to $157, while the utilities sub-index climbed 3.23 per cent.
Those gains were partly offset by continued pressure on developers and red-chips as fears of a yuan devaluation remained strong.
ING Futures & Options institutional sales trader Kathleen Emerson said that the market continued to watch movements in the yen closely.
'People took the current stability in the yen as an excuse to bargain hunt,' she said.
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