The Hong Kong Monetary Authority left its base rate unchanged at 4.75% on Thursday, tracking a move by the U.S. Federal Reserve to keep rates steady.

HSBC and other major banks will only announce their interest-rate decisions on Monday, the first working day of the Lunar New Year.

Asian stocks advanced Wednesday in thin Lunar New Year trading following a rebound on Wall Street driven by tech stocks as the panic over Chinese AI company DeepSeek faded.

Hong Kong stocks rose to an almost two-week high as slower growth in US consumer prices bolstered the case for the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates, while investors wait for fourth-quarter economic data that may show a stronger recovery in China.

City's economy is likely to grow between 2.5 and 3 per cent, ANZ chief economist Raymond Yeung says Beijing's recent measures will lead to more capital flows into Hong Kong equities, becoming a key driver of the city's growth in the Year of the Snake,

Owners registered 47,917 mortgages on various properties in 2024, the least since Centaline Property began tracking the data in 2000.

Chinese risk-free rates are at 20 year lows. This coupled with new policy moves may buoy the Hong Kong and Chinese markets.

The BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty are expected to open a tad higher on Thursday, following positive trend at Gift Nifty.

The firm said only $5.6 million was spent developing the model. The programme's arrival has sparked competition fears, as tech titans -- including Nvidia, Meta and Alphabet -- have made huge investments worth hundreds of billions of dollars into AI products and sent their valuations soaring.

Home prices fell 7.1 percent in 2024, official figures showed on Friday. It was the third year in a row of declining prices, which have dropped 27

Massachusetts Senator Peter Durant wants the state to establish a strategic Bitcoin reserve amid global clamor for the coin.

LIVE: Markets in Indian are poised to open on a flat note with a positive bias, following a lower close on Wall Street overnight after the US Fed held interest rates steady on Wednesday