{"id":58371,"date":"2017-06-07T09:09:15","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T13:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=58371"},"modified":"2017-06-07T09:09:15","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T13:09:15","slug":"hong-kong-shares-end-lower-as-short-sellers-target-china-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2017\/hong-kong-shares-end-lower-as-short-sellers-target-china-firms.html","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong Shares End Lower as Short-Sellers Target China Firms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Hong Kong stocks ended Wednesday lower after hitting a fresh 23-month intraday high, with more listed companies in the city targetted by short-sellers.<\/p>\n<p>The Hang Seng index fell 0.1 percent, to 25,974.16, while the China Enterprises Index gained 0.1 percent, to 10,611.46 points.<\/p>\n<p>Shares of Man Wah Holdings slid as much as 15 percent after research firm Muddy Waters said it was shorting the stock, accusing the furniture maker of financial irregularities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/china-stocks-hongkong-close-idUKZZN2N1A00\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Hong Kong stocks ended Wednesday lower after hitting a fresh 23-month intraday high, with more listed companies in the city targetted by short-sellers. The Hang Seng index fell 0.1 percent, to 25,974.16, while the China Enterprises Index gained 0.1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58371","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58372,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58371\/revisions\/58372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}