THE shorter the better seems to be the rule when it comes to financial information in a newspaper. Although limited for space, papers still manage to squeeze in vast amounts of data.
This may be old news to some. Cryptic numbers usually contain more than meets the eye. But even those slightly more adept at stock tracking have been known to miss a beat.
Tuesday through Saturday, the daily rundown of Hong Kong stocks are found near the back of the Business Post in the South China Morning Post.
The pages contain over 700 securities listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and these are listed alphabetically.
The first column in each row gives the name of the share, followed by the close price, and the highest and lowest mid-market price.
The mid-price is as it sounds. Had you bought the shares at the close of business, you may have paid a bit more. Had you sold shares, you would have received a bit less. This is the price which falls mid way.