Credit Suisse named Neil Hosie as head of global equities.
Also today...the bank's Singapore Chief Executive Officer Chien Chien Wong is leaving the lender, the latest senior departure to hit the embattled Swiss firm.https://t.co/x8V9vWrn5u via @markets
Jimmy Lai's media company, Next Digital, parent company of Apple Daily, delists today from the #HK stock exchange after closure of its flagship pro-democracy newspaper, which ignited fears over a crackdown on press freedom.
Story w/ @oliviahttam https://t.co/9ooaAgrO4O
Property agents in Hong Kong are resorting to increasingly wry advertising slogans to attract potential buyers during the city’s worst housing slump in years @oliviahttam https://t.co/iQGVtk1gke via @markets
More big breaking news. Bloomberg has learned China is considering letting local governments raise $220B to fund infrastructure & the recovery.
https://t.co/scwmZTEXLA
All Xi (音:痾屎 -Eng. meaning: Taking a Shit), A performance piece I did back in 2017 pretending I’m a pro Communist supporter and sneaked into the paid supporter groups to welcome president Xi.
🇭🇰"This is the right time to go."
China has radically reshaped the once free-spirited city of Hong Kong, @opinion's @mbrookerhk says as he bids farewell to his home of 3 decades https://t.co/KjgiNICg0P
🇭🇰 "1997 was the beginning of an end."
It's been 25 years since the British handover of Hong Kong to China. Those born in 1997 have witnessed some of the city's most rapid social and political change. We speak to 3 Hong Kongers born in that year https://t.co/34j24i5fsZ
Bankers in India recorded their best-ever quarter for M&A, racking up $82.3 billion in volume while dealmaking slumped globally. w/ Baiju Kalesh https://t.co/h5KKmBeHNa via @business
For whom the city has always been under Chinese sovereignty🇨🇳 ... We spoke to six 24- and 25-year-olds about the Hong Kong they grew up in, and the one they expect to exist in another 25 years. w/ @ShawnaKwan@johnchenghc@JosieWonghk
https://t.co/MoSwC7Ggoz
Apollo is planning to lend about $1 billion to developers in India this year, betting on a recovery in the residential property market as the pandemic eases. Story w/ Baiju Kalesh
https://t.co/s9ngyyS9f1
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China’s stock market has “some room for recovery” as the Asian nation may begin to ease lockdowns in major cities in the second half of the year, Jack Siu, Greater China chief investment officer at Credit Suisse, told Bloomberg Television Friday.
https://t.co/OHfE1HF7ma
HKEX reported a 31% drop in profit in Q1, the biggest decline in almost 6 years amid a drought in IPOs and plunging stock trading. ADT of stocks slid 36% from year earlier, IPOs fell to HK$14.9b from HK$136.6b. Shares down for a third day.
w/ @kiuyanwong
https://t.co/Zj0rJ2bMaP
Hong Kong's property market is so uncharacteristically bad, some sellers have had their homes on the market for over a year. Story with @lisafleisher & @oliviahttam about population outflow's impacts on the housing market. https://t.co/rz2srRdS3J via @wealth
Eric Yip, who is from Hong Kong, won for his poem Fricatives, which plays with ideas about language to also comment on colonialism, race, migration, belonging and the guilt of leaving one’s home behind.
https://t.co/VmUzCs7EYB
"At no point did I expect me to be the person responsible for the English-language Hong Kong Covid news."
Stay-at-home dad of 2, @tripperhead, has become an unlikely source of news for the city's #Covid19 policies. Here's how he got there https://t.co/tax4gKx9bn
The mobile emergency alert that just gave you a heart attack is the result of a HK$150 million alert system launched by the Communication Authority in Nov 2020 but never used... until now, after HK01's story today: https://t.co/miwlF49l89