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  • World NewsHong Kong stocks open lower, another weekend of strife ahead
    ThaigerMonday, September 30, 2019
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    Hong Kong stocks open lower, another weekend of strife ahead

    PHOTO: AFP More protests in Hong Kong over the weekend, and threats of interruptions to communist China’s 70th anniversary celebrations starting tomorrow, is weighing heavily on investors this morning. Hong Kong stocks opened lower this morning, extending losses at the end of last week, a day before mass pro-democracy protests planned in the city on communist China’s 70th anniversary. The…

  • World NewsPound lifted by British PM’s latest defeat, Asian equities struggle
    ThaigerTuesday, September 10, 2019
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    Pound lifted by British PM’s latest defeat, Asian equities struggle

    The British pound bounced today after UK PM Boris Johnson again failed to get MPs to back a snap election, while Asian equities drifted as investors await a key European Central Bank meeting and developments in the China-US trade talks. Just before Westminster lawmakers broke up for five weeks they inflicted yet another defeat on the new PM, who has…

  • Business NewsAsian stock markets follow Wall Street’s lead downward this morning
    ThaigerThursday, August 15, 2019
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    Asian stock markets follow Wall Street’s lead downward this morning

    Asian stock markets have followed Wall Street’s lead this morning falling sharply as investors made their concerns apparent about economic recessions in some of the larger economies. They also reacted to more threats of instability from the trade war between the US and China. The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) Index dropped 1.6% during this morning’s trading. US markets led…