{"id":3700,"date":"2005-12-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hong-kong-shares-end-morning-lower-on-profit-taking-hedge-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2005\/hong-kong-shares-end-morning-lower-on-profit-taking-hedge-fund.html","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong shares end morning lower on profit-taking, hedge fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mainarttxt\">HONG KONG (AFX) &#8211; Share prices finished the morning session sharply lower as investors locked in quick profits after yesterday&#8217;s gains, with selling by hedge-funds andderivatives traders aggravating the falls, dealers said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mainarttxt\">Worries over interest rates and possible violent protests during next week&#8217;s World Trade Organization summit weighed down sentiment, they said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mainarttxt\">The Hang Seng Index ended the morning down 192.04 points or 1.27 pct at 14,942.91, off a low of 14,902.71 and and high of 15.095.18.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mainarttxt\">Turnover was 13.36 bln hkd.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mainarttxt\">&#8216;The market&#8217;s big fall was puzzling because fundamentals have not changed much and it is unlikely for investor sentiment to turn drastically bearish overnight,&#8217; said HowardGorges, vice chairman at South China Securities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/markets\/feeds\/afx\/2005\/12\/08\/afx2377208.html\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HONG KONG (AFX) &#8211; Share prices finished the morning session sharply lower as investors locked in quick profits after yesterday&#8217;s gains, with selling by hedge-funds andderivatives traders aggravating the falls, dealers said. Worries over interest rates and possible violent protests [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}