Bloomberg Hong Kong stocks rose, with the benchmark index capping its best day in more than two months, on speculation the US administration won’t take extreme steps in response to China’s crackdown on the city. The Hang Seng Index closed 3.4% higher, led by real estate firms, after falling almost 7% last month. Shares on the mainland also climbed, with ...

Bloomberg Four Singaporean blue-chip stocks lost a combined market capitalisation of $613 million amid record volumes after MSCI Inc. deleted them from its benchmark for the city-state’s largest stocks. Two of the four shares excluded from the MSCI Singapore Index — Singapore Press Holdings Ltd. and Sembcorp Industries Ltd. — became over-sold on a technical indicator, while ComfortDelGro Corp. and ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The total number of business licences issued in the UAE in May amounted to 648,684, an increase of 1,035 licences from those recorded at the end of April, as per statistics from the National Economic Register. This increase highlights the continuity of economic activities in the country, despite the global slowdown of the sector. The monitoring ...