At the midday close in Hong Kong, the HSI was up 0.35% and the Hang Seng Tech
Index was up 0.17%; half-day turnover HKD 107.02 bln. Sector gainers included
CROs/outsourced pharma, autos, media & entertainment and brain–computer
interface plays; laggards were memory/storage, optical communications and chip
stocks. Notable moves: 09976.HK down >8%, 02513.HK down >7%, 06166.HK down ~7%,
00100.HK down >5%; GAC Group (02238.HK) up >8%, WuXi AppTec (02359.HK), Lenovo
Group (00992.HK) and China Unicom (00762.HK) up >4%.