At the midday close, the Hang Seng Index fell 1.75% and the Hang Seng Tech Index
fell 1.87%; market turnover was HKD 149.6 bln. Sector losers included insurance,
semiconductors and power-equipment stocks; optical communications, PCB-related
names and gold outperformed. Notable movers: MINIMAX-W (00100.HK) rose over 16%;
02476.HK and 00815.HK gained more than 7%; 03308.HK added over 5%; AIA Group
(01299.HK) fell more than 8%; 03277.HK dropped over 6%; SMIC (00981.HK) fell
over 4%.
