Days of mixed economic data in the United States, a Delta variant novel coronavirus rampant, falling commodity prices, and Chinese authorities plan to tighten regulation of a number of industries. Major stock markets in the Asia-Pacific region fell, and Hong Kong stocks fell twice in a row. Today, pharmaceutical stocks such as 01093.HK / Wuxi Biologics (02269.HK) / Alibaba Health Information Technology (00241.HK) were sold off. And the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (00388.HK) / AIA (01299.HK), two major car stocks, repeatedly bottoming out Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (09988.HK), Meituan (03690.HK), Country Garden Services Holdings (06098.HK), Haidilao International Holding (06862.HK) and Sands (01928.HK) / Silver Entertainment (00027.HK) were dragged down by sales, which fell below the intraday low of 244,748 on July 27, and fell as low as 734 points or 2.9% as low as 24581 for more than eight months. Closed down 466 points or 1.8% Prev and Shenzhen fell 2% in the afternoon, closing only 1.1% and 1.6%, respectively. Vietnam threw up 3.3%, and Nikkei and Korean and Philippine stocks fell 1%, 1.3%. On the contrary, shares in Indonesia and Xingmatai rose 0.2% and 0.6%.
Us stock futures fell 0.3% mi 0.4% across the board, of which Dow futures fell 153 points, or 0.4%, to 34jue 665.
After catching up yesterday, major European stock markets generally softened in the early days. Germany's DAX fell nearly 0.5% to 15693; France's CAC fell 0.3% to 6587; Britain's FTSE 100 fell 0.2% to 7045; Italy's FTSE MIB fell 0.3% to 25840; pan-European 600 fell 0.3% to 465.81; but Spain's IBEX 35, which outperformed by less than 1% last night, reversed to 8902.