Business
Deals: Bankers involved in the sale say the firm, which is looking to create a 24-hour trading network, is among six potential bidders.
Sept. 12, 2002
For worried American investors, the real clue to what was coming for stocks Monday wasn’t hidden in a company balance sheet or even the latest figures on the U.S. economy.
Oct. 27, 1987
World & Nation
The sumptuous feast here Monday night was billed as a birthday party, but it could just as well have been a wake.
Oct. 28, 1987
The former chairman of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, its chief executive officer and one other top exchange official were arrested Saturday by this British colony’s chief anti-corruption agency.
Jan. 3, 1988
Economy: Ripple effect hammers exchanges in Japan, Europe, Latin America. Dow drops 2.3% in 3rd-biggest trading day. But Hong Kong index rebounds early today.
Oct. 24, 1997
Trading Group Quits Exchange in Hong Kong: Hong Kong’s oldest colonial trading group, Jardine Matheson Holdings Ltd., said it would quit the local stock exchange in a dispute linked with the colony’s 1997 return to China.
March 24, 1994
Ronald Li, embattled chairman of Hong Kong’s stock exchange, has stepped down from the post that has brought him both praise and vilification.
Dec. 17, 1987
Stock trading in Hong Kong loses some of its glamour and freewheeling character with the merger today of the colony’s four exchanges in a new computerized trading hall under strict new rules.
April 2, 1986
Securities: Aggressive Singapore will offer futures contracts based on the Hang Seng. Angry Hong Kong has moved to counter the challenge.
Nov. 21, 1998
The colony’s image as a land where everyone from the tea lady to the taxi driver is happy to bet their shirt on the stock market doesn’t hold up in the results of a survey conducted for the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
Aug. 9, 1993