Equities
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The Market the Rally Skipped: What Kept Hong Kong Stocks Behind
As global equities ran higher for most of the year, one major market trailed. Japanese, Korean, US technology and mainland Chinese…
The Exchange as the Trade: Why Singapore Exchange Shares Sit at a Record
Shares of the Singapore Exchange reached a record in June, up more than half over the year. The operator does not rise on any single…
Price-weighting splits the Nikkei from the TOPIX
Two indices on the same news, in the same hours, moving three times apart. The split is in the construction: one is price-weighted, so a…
One label, two equity markets: Japan and Korea on the same wave
Two markets at records under the same AI banner. Underneath, they run on different fuel, and the gap between them is where a…
Stock Connect explained: northbound and southbound flows
Stock Connect links the mainland Chinese exchanges and the Hong Kong exchange through two parallel channels, moving in opposite…
A-share IPOs: counts, proceeds, and the 2025 reset
The pace of new listings on China's A-share market is set less by company demand to go public than by the regulator's calibration of…
Futures and derivatives across six exchanges: China's 2025 scale
China's listed derivatives trade across six exchanges, each carrying a defined product remit rather than competing head to head on the…