Asian stocks advanced Wednesday in thin Lunar New Year trading following a rebound on Wall Street driven by tech stocks as the panic over Chinese AI company DeepSeek faded. Most

City's economy is likely to grow between 2.5 and 3 per cent, ANZ chief economist Raymond Yeung says Beijing's recent measures will lead to more capital flows into Hong Kong equities, becoming a key driver of the city's growth in the Year of the Snake,

Owners registered 47,917 mortgages on various properties in 2024, the least since Centaline Property began tracking the data in 2000.

The firm said only $5.6 million was spent developing the model. The programme's arrival has sparked competition fears, as tech titans -- including Nvidia, Meta and Alphabet -- have made huge investments worth hundreds of billions of dollars into AI products and sent their valuations soaring.

Chinese risk-free rates are at 20 year lows. This coupled with new policy moves may buoy the Hong Kong and Chinese markets.

Home prices fell 7.1 percent in 2024, official figures showed on Friday. It was the third year in a row of declining prices, which have dropped 27

Massachusetts Senator Peter Durant wants the state to establish a strategic Bitcoin reserve amid global clamor for the coin.

Hong Kong stocks rose to an almost two-week high as slower growth in US consumer prices bolstered the case for the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates, while investors wait for fourth-quarter ...

Tokyo's Nikkei 225 index gained 0.3% to 40,074.87 after the central bank raised its benchmark rate to about 0.5% from 0.25%, as widely expected. It is the highest level for the rate since 2008, as the Bank of Japan shifts out of a long spell of extreme low interest rates meant to spur more borrowing and spending.

The working group will do roadshows and update industry players on new policies and regulatory measures in Hong Kong, association says The Hong Kong Association of Banks (HKAB) plans to form a working group this quarter to draw up measures to attract more emerging-market customers to the financial hub and support the city's role as an offshore yuan centre.

In currencies, the dollar jumped 0.3% against the Chinese yuan in offshore trading, and rallied 0.4% versus the Aussie and 0.5% versus the New Zealand dollar, with the antipodean currencies tending to act as more liquid proxies for China's currency due to close trade ties.

World shares were mostly lower on Monday after U.S. stocks edged back from their all-time high, with many Asian markets closed for holidays. In early European trading,