After being suspended on Thursday morning due to a typhoon alert, Hong Kong's benchmark Hang Seng Index rose 1.22% in afternoon trade, taking cues from Wall Street as investors turned their attention to the start of the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium.
| Alibaba (NYSE:BABA) Group Holding Ltd. (NYSE: BABA) | 4.12% |
| JD.com Inc (NASDAQ: JD) | 4.78% |
| Baidu Inc (NASDAQ: NASDAQ:BIDU) | 4.93% |
| Tencent Holdings Ltd. (HK:0700) (OTC: TCEHY) | 1.61% |
| Meituan (OTC: MPNGF) | 3.35% |
| Nio Inc (NYSE: NIO) | 3.83% |
| XPeng Inc (NYSE: XPEV) | 0.89% |
| Li Auto Inc (NASDAQ: LI) | 0.53% |
The Bank of Korea raised its interest rate by 25 basis points to 2.5% which was in line with expectations. All eyes, however, will be on Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s economic outlook speech at Jackson Hole on Friday.
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Macro News: China's foreign exchange regulator called many banks on Wednesday to warn them against aggressively selling the yuan, reflecting official discomfort with recent currency weakness, reported Reuters citing sources. The yuan hit a two-year low at 6.8704 on Wednesday and has depreciated close to 1.8% in August so far.
China is lining up a slew of measures to stabilize growth with its State Council readying a 19-point policy package that will keep economic operations within reasonable range, reported Bloomberg, citing state broadcaster CCTV. The package consists a quota of over 300 billion yuan ($43.7 billion) for policy and development financial tools, it said.
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