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Hong Kong raised its economic growth forecast for 2021 as the government slowly eases virus control measures and cash vouchers help to drive spending in a city hit by the pandemic and protests before ...

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Tourism, consumer and services industries are the biggest employers of many of Hong Kong’s working class.</p>\n<p>Hong Kong’s Economy Is Finally Recovering, But Only for the Rich</p>\n<p>In a sign of improvement, the unemployment rate in the consumption and tourism-related sectors fell visibly in the second-quarter, according to the government economists.</p>\n<p>Consumer spending also picked up sharply,growing6.8% in the second quarter from a year ago, up from 2.1% in the first three months of the year.</p>\n<p>The government has begundistributingHK$5,000 ($642) consumption vouchers to eligible residents to encourage spending. The program will cost an estimated HK$36 billion and provide a 0.7 percentage-point bump to this year’s GDP, according to an April governmentreport.</p>","source":"lsy1584095487587","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Hong Kong Sees Growth as Much as 6.5% as Spending Recovers</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nHong Kong Sees Growth as Much as 6.5% as Spending Recovers\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-08-13 19:34 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-13/hong-kong-raises-2021-growth-forecast-as-virus-concerns-ease><strong>Bloomberg</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Hong Kong raised its economic growth forecast for 2021 as the government slowly eases virus control measures and cash vouchers help to drive spending in a city hit by the pandemic and protests before ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-13/hong-kong-raises-2021-growth-forecast-as-virus-concerns-ease\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"HSI":"恒生指数"},"source_url":"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-13/hong-kong-raises-2021-growth-forecast-as-virus-concerns-ease","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1140332646","content_text":"Hong Kong raised its economic growth forecast for 2021 as the government slowly eases virus control measures and cash vouchers help to drive spending in a city hit by the pandemic and protests before that.\nThe city now projects gross domestic product growth of 5.5% to 6.5% this year, compared with an earlier range of 3.5% to 5.5%, the statistics department said in a release Friday.\nThe government also raised its year-on-year GDP figure for the second quarter to 7.6% from anadvanced readingof 7.5%. On a quarter-on-quarter basis, a better reflection of growth momentum, GDP shrank 0.9%, the finalized data showed. Forecast for underlying inflation is maintained at 1%.\n\n“Domestically, if the epidemic remains stable, the improving labor market and the boost from the consumption voucherschemewill help stimulate consumer demand,” government economists said at a briefing Friday. Vaccination is essential to “a fully-fledged economic recovery,” they added.\nThe economists alsonoteda number of uncertainties ahead, including the delta variant outbreak, U.S.-China relations, geopolitical tensions and major global central banks’ evolving monetary policy stance.\nUneven Recovery\nHong Kong’s economy has faced an uneven recovery from two years of contraction, with retailers and tourism-related businesses particularly hard hit as borders remain shut and travel curtailed to stop the spread of more infectious variants of Covid-19.\nFinancial services and the property market are booming though. Home prices jumped tothe highest levelsince record began in 1993 on low mortgage rates and rising demand, a separate report showed.\nThe unbalanced recovery has exposed deepening wealth imbalances between the city’s working class and elite. Tourism, consumer and services industries are the biggest employers of many of Hong Kong’s working class.\nHong Kong’s Economy Is Finally Recovering, But Only for the Rich\nIn a sign of improvement, the unemployment rate in the consumption and tourism-related sectors fell visibly in the second-quarter, according to the government economists.\nConsumer spending also picked up sharply,growing6.8% in the second quarter from a year ago, up from 2.1% in the first three months of the year.\nThe government has begundistributingHK$5,000 ($642) consumption vouchers to eligible residents to encourage spending. The program will cost an estimated HK$36 billion and provide a 0.7 percentage-point bump to this year’s GDP, according to an April governmentreport.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":894714739,"gmtCreate":1628856864521,"gmtModify":1676529876192,"author":{"id":"4087618621878680","authorId":"4087618621878680","name":"moneytools","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/28fc0b469c987c99e12bf29d6ad5c42f","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"4087618621878680","authorIdStr":"4087618621878680"},"htmlText":"Great thanks","listText":"Great thanks","text":"Great thanks","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/894714739","repostId":1140332646,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1140332646","pubTimestamp":1628854463,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1140332646?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-08-13 19:34","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Hong Kong Sees Growth as Much as 6.5% as Spending Recovers","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1140332646","media":"Bloomberg","summary":"Hong Kong raised its economic growth forecast for 2021 as the government slowly eases virus control ","content":"<p>Hong Kong raised its economic growth forecast for 2021 as the government slowly eases virus control measures and cash vouchers help to drive spending in a city hit by the pandemic and protests before that.</p>\n<p>The city now projects gross domestic product growth of 5.5% to 6.5% this year, compared with an earlier range of 3.5% to 5.5%, the statistics department said in a release Friday.</p>\n<p>The government also raised its year-on-year GDP figure for the second quarter to 7.6% from anadvanced readingof 7.5%. On a quarter-on-quarter basis, a better reflection of growth momentum, GDP shrank 0.9%, the finalized data showed. Forecast for underlying inflation is maintained at 1%.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/bb5d5fbe85c2df2f7dec79507a63e585\" tg-width=\"930\" tg-height=\"523\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>“Domestically, if the epidemic remains stable, the improving labor market and the boost from the consumption voucherschemewill help stimulate consumer demand,” government economists said at a briefing Friday. Vaccination is essential to “a fully-fledged economic recovery,” they added.</p>\n<p>The economists alsonoteda number of uncertainties ahead, including the delta variant outbreak, U.S.-China relations, geopolitical tensions and major global central banks’ evolving monetary policy stance.</p>\n<p>Uneven Recovery</p>\n<p>Hong Kong’s economy has faced an uneven recovery from two years of contraction, with retailers and tourism-related businesses particularly hard hit as borders remain shut and travel curtailed to stop the spread of more infectious variants of Covid-19.</p>\n<p>Financial services and the property market are booming though. Home prices jumped tothe highest levelsince record began in 1993 on low mortgage rates and rising demand, a separate report showed.</p>\n<p>The unbalanced recovery has exposed deepening wealth imbalances between the city’s working class and elite. Tourism, consumer and services industries are the biggest employers of many of Hong Kong’s working class.</p>\n<p>Hong Kong’s Economy Is Finally Recovering, But Only for the Rich</p>\n<p>In a sign of improvement, the unemployment rate in the consumption and tourism-related sectors fell visibly in the second-quarter, according to the government economists.</p>\n<p>Consumer spending also picked up sharply,growing6.8% in the second quarter from a year ago, up from 2.1% in the first three months of the year.</p>\n<p>The government has begundistributingHK$5,000 ($642) consumption vouchers to eligible residents to encourage spending. The program will cost an estimated HK$36 billion and provide a 0.7 percentage-point bump to this year’s GDP, according to an April governmentreport.</p>","source":"lsy1584095487587","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Hong Kong Sees Growth as Much as 6.5% as Spending Recovers</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nHong Kong Sees Growth as Much as 6.5% as Spending Recovers\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-08-13 19:34 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-13/hong-kong-raises-2021-growth-forecast-as-virus-concerns-ease><strong>Bloomberg</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Hong Kong raised its economic growth forecast for 2021 as the government slowly eases virus control measures and cash vouchers help to drive spending in a city hit by the pandemic and protests before ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-13/hong-kong-raises-2021-growth-forecast-as-virus-concerns-ease\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"HSI":"恒生指数"},"source_url":"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-13/hong-kong-raises-2021-growth-forecast-as-virus-concerns-ease","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1140332646","content_text":"Hong Kong raised its economic growth forecast for 2021 as the government slowly eases virus control measures and cash vouchers help to drive spending in a city hit by the pandemic and protests before that.\nThe city now projects gross domestic product growth of 5.5% to 6.5% this year, compared with an earlier range of 3.5% to 5.5%, the statistics department said in a release Friday.\nThe government also raised its year-on-year GDP figure for the second quarter to 7.6% from anadvanced readingof 7.5%. On a quarter-on-quarter basis, a better reflection of growth momentum, GDP shrank 0.9%, the finalized data showed. Forecast for underlying inflation is maintained at 1%.\n\n“Domestically, if the epidemic remains stable, the improving labor market and the boost from the consumption voucherschemewill help stimulate consumer demand,” government economists said at a briefing Friday. Vaccination is essential to “a fully-fledged economic recovery,” they added.\nThe economists alsonoteda number of uncertainties ahead, including the delta variant outbreak, U.S.-China relations, geopolitical tensions and major global central banks’ evolving monetary policy stance.\nUneven Recovery\nHong Kong’s economy has faced an uneven recovery from two years of contraction, with retailers and tourism-related businesses particularly hard hit as borders remain shut and travel curtailed to stop the spread of more infectious variants of Covid-19.\nFinancial services and the property market are booming though. Home prices jumped tothe highest levelsince record began in 1993 on low mortgage rates and rising demand, a separate report showed.\nThe unbalanced recovery has exposed deepening wealth imbalances between the city’s working class and elite. Tourism, consumer and services industries are the biggest employers of many of Hong Kong’s working class.\nHong Kong’s Economy Is Finally Recovering, But Only for the Rich\nIn a sign of improvement, the unemployment rate in the consumption and tourism-related sectors fell visibly in the second-quarter, according to the government economists.\nConsumer spending also picked up sharply,growing6.8% in the second quarter from a year ago, up from 2.1% in the first three months of the year.\nThe government has begundistributingHK$5,000 ($642) consumption vouchers to eligible residents to encourage spending. The program will cost an estimated HK$36 billion and provide a 0.7 percentage-point bump to this year’s GDP, according to an April governmentreport.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":894711942,"gmtCreate":1628856368486,"gmtModify":1676529876041,"author":{"id":"3571612770300673","authorId":"3571612770300673","name":"Rickyt089","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4e75fb09fa53aa8d7db329d6599d40c1","vip":1,"crmLevel":6,"crmLevelSwitch":1,"idStr":"3571612770300673","authorIdStr":"3571612770300673"},"htmlText":"Like pls","listText":"Like pls","text":"Like pls","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/894711942","repostId":1140332646,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1140332646","pubTimestamp":1628854463,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1140332646?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-08-13 19:34","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Hong Kong Sees Growth as Much as 6.5% as Spending Recovers","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1140332646","media":"Bloomberg","summary":"Hong Kong raised its economic growth forecast for 2021 as the government slowly eases virus control ","content":"<p>Hong Kong raised its economic growth forecast for 2021 as the government slowly eases virus control measures and cash vouchers help to drive spending in a city hit by the pandemic and protests before that.</p>\n<p>The city now projects gross domestic product growth of 5.5% to 6.5% this year, compared with an earlier range of 3.5% to 5.5%, the statistics department said in a release Friday.</p>\n<p>The government also raised its year-on-year GDP figure for the second quarter to 7.6% from anadvanced readingof 7.5%. On a quarter-on-quarter basis, a better reflection of growth momentum, GDP shrank 0.9%, the finalized data showed. Forecast for underlying inflation is maintained at 1%.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/bb5d5fbe85c2df2f7dec79507a63e585\" tg-width=\"930\" tg-height=\"523\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>“Domestically, if the epidemic remains stable, the improving labor market and the boost from the consumption voucherschemewill help stimulate consumer demand,” government economists said at a briefing Friday. Vaccination is essential to “a fully-fledged economic recovery,” they added.</p>\n<p>The economists alsonoteda number of uncertainties ahead, including the delta variant outbreak, U.S.-China relations, geopolitical tensions and major global central banks’ evolving monetary policy stance.</p>\n<p>Uneven Recovery</p>\n<p>Hong Kong’s economy has faced an uneven recovery from two years of contraction, with retailers and tourism-related businesses particularly hard hit as borders remain shut and travel curtailed to stop the spread of more infectious variants of Covid-19.</p>\n<p>Financial services and the property market are booming though. Home prices jumped tothe highest levelsince record began in 1993 on low mortgage rates and rising demand, a separate report showed.</p>\n<p>The unbalanced recovery has exposed deepening wealth imbalances between the city’s working class and elite. Tourism, consumer and services industries are the biggest employers of many of Hong Kong’s working class.</p>\n<p>Hong Kong’s Economy Is Finally Recovering, But Only for the Rich</p>\n<p>In a sign of improvement, the unemployment rate in the consumption and tourism-related sectors fell visibly in the second-quarter, according to the government economists.</p>\n<p>Consumer spending also picked up sharply,growing6.8% in the second quarter from a year ago, up from 2.1% in the first three months of the year.</p>\n<p>The government has begundistributingHK$5,000 ($642) consumption vouchers to eligible residents to encourage spending. 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On a quarter-on-quarter basis, a better reflection of growth momentum, GDP shrank 0.9%, the finalized data showed. Forecast for underlying inflation is maintained at 1%.\n\n“Domestically, if the epidemic remains stable, the improving labor market and the boost from the consumption voucherschemewill help stimulate consumer demand,” government economists said at a briefing Friday. Vaccination is essential to “a fully-fledged economic recovery,” they added.\nThe economists alsonoteda number of uncertainties ahead, including the delta variant outbreak, U.S.-China relations, geopolitical tensions and major global central banks’ evolving monetary policy stance.\nUneven Recovery\nHong Kong’s economy has faced an uneven recovery from two years of contraction, with retailers and tourism-related businesses particularly hard hit as borders remain shut and travel curtailed to stop the spread of more infectious variants of Covid-19.\nFinancial services and the property market are booming though. 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On a quarter-on-quarter basis, a better reflection of growth momentum, GDP shrank 0.9%, the finalized data showed. Forecast for underlying inflation is maintained at 1%.\n\n“Domestically, if the epidemic remains stable, the improving labor market and the boost from the consumption voucherschemewill help stimulate consumer demand,” government economists said at a briefing Friday. Vaccination is essential to “a fully-fledged economic recovery,” they added.\nThe economists alsonoteda number of uncertainties ahead, including the delta variant outbreak, U.S.-China relations, geopolitical tensions and major global central banks’ evolving monetary policy stance.\nUneven Recovery\nHong Kong’s economy has faced an uneven recovery from two years of contraction, with retailers and tourism-related businesses particularly hard hit as borders remain shut and travel curtailed to stop the spread of more infectious variants of Covid-19.\nFinancial services and the property market are booming though. 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On a quarter-on-quarter basis, a better reflection of growth momentum, GDP shrank 0.9%, the finalized data showed. Forecast for underlying inflation is maintained at 1%.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/bb5d5fbe85c2df2f7dec79507a63e585\" tg-width=\"930\" tg-height=\"523\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>“Domestically, if the epidemic remains stable, the improving labor market and the boost from the consumption voucherschemewill help stimulate consumer demand,” government economists said at a briefing Friday. Vaccination is essential to “a fully-fledged economic recovery,” they added.</p>\n<p>The economists alsonoteda number of uncertainties ahead, including the delta variant outbreak, U.S.-China relations, geopolitical tensions and major global central banks’ evolving monetary policy stance.</p>\n<p>Uneven Recovery</p>\n<p>Hong Kong’s economy has faced an uneven recovery from two years of contraction, with retailers and tourism-related businesses particularly hard hit as borders remain shut and travel curtailed to stop the spread of more infectious variants of Covid-19.</p>\n<p>Financial services and the property market are booming though. Home prices jumped tothe highest levelsince record began in 1993 on low mortgage rates and rising demand, a separate report showed.</p>\n<p>The unbalanced recovery has exposed deepening wealth imbalances between the city’s working class and elite. 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On a quarter-on-quarter basis, a better reflection of growth momentum, GDP shrank 0.9%, the finalized data showed. Forecast for underlying inflation is maintained at 1%.\n\n“Domestically, if the epidemic remains stable, the improving labor market and the boost from the consumption voucherschemewill help stimulate consumer demand,” government economists said at a briefing Friday. Vaccination is essential to “a fully-fledged economic recovery,” they added.\nThe economists alsonoteda number of uncertainties ahead, including the delta variant outbreak, U.S.-China relations, geopolitical tensions and major global central banks’ evolving monetary policy stance.\nUneven Recovery\nHong Kong’s economy has faced an uneven recovery from two years of contraction, with retailers and tourism-related businesses particularly hard hit as borders remain shut and travel curtailed to stop the spread of more infectious variants of Covid-19.\nFinancial services and the property market are booming though. 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On a quarter-on-quarter basis, a better reflection of growth momentum, GDP shrank 0.9%, the finalized data showed. Forecast for underlying inflation is maintained at 1%.\n\n“Domestically, if the epidemic remains stable, the improving labor market and the boost from the consumption voucherschemewill help stimulate consumer demand,” government economists said at a briefing Friday. Vaccination is essential to “a fully-fledged economic recovery,” they added.\nThe economists alsonoteda number of uncertainties ahead, including the delta variant outbreak, U.S.-China relations, geopolitical tensions and major global central banks’ evolving monetary policy stance.\nUneven Recovery\nHong Kong’s economy has faced an uneven recovery from two years of contraction, with retailers and tourism-related businesses particularly hard hit as borders remain shut and travel curtailed to stop the spread of more infectious variants of Covid-19.\nFinancial services and the property market are booming though. 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On a quarter-on-quarter basis, a better reflection of growth momentum, GDP shrank 0.9%, the finalized data showed. Forecast for underlying inflation is maintained at 1%.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/bb5d5fbe85c2df2f7dec79507a63e585\" tg-width=\"930\" tg-height=\"523\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>“Domestically, if the epidemic remains stable, the improving labor market and the boost from the consumption voucherschemewill help stimulate consumer demand,” government economists said at a briefing Friday. 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On a quarter-on-quarter basis, a better reflection of growth momentum, GDP shrank 0.9%, the finalized data showed. Forecast for underlying inflation is maintained at 1%.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/bb5d5fbe85c2df2f7dec79507a63e585\" tg-width=\"930\" tg-height=\"523\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>“Domestically, if the epidemic remains stable, the improving labor market and the boost from the consumption voucherschemewill help stimulate consumer demand,” government economists said at a briefing Friday. 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On a quarter-on-quarter basis, a better reflection of growth momentum, GDP shrank 0.9%, the finalized data showed. Forecast for underlying inflation is maintained at 1%.\n\n“Domestically, if the epidemic remains stable, the improving labor market and the boost from the consumption voucherschemewill help stimulate consumer demand,” government economists said at a briefing Friday. Vaccination is essential to “a fully-fledged economic recovery,” they added.\nThe economists alsonoteda number of uncertainties ahead, including the delta variant outbreak, U.S.-China relations, geopolitical tensions and major global central banks’ evolving monetary policy stance.\nUneven Recovery\nHong Kong’s economy has faced an uneven recovery from two years of contraction, with retailers and tourism-related businesses particularly hard hit as borders remain shut and travel curtailed to stop the spread of more infectious variants of Covid-19.\nFinancial services and the property market are booming though. 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The program will cost an estimated HK$36 billion and provide a 0.7 percentage-point bump to this year’s GDP, according to an April governmentreport.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":5517233,"gmtCreate":1628854842085,"gmtModify":1663232325959,"authorId":3581949889928488,"author":{"id":3581949889928488,"idStr":"3581949889928488","authorId":3581949889928488,"name":"NewPower","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/6dd5250c3ee8b6d26b5be75d2771a0b3","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":894794338,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"No problem.","text":"No problem.","html":"No problem."},{"id":5517231,"gmtCreate":1628854840759,"gmtModify":1663232325535,"authorId":3581734227956830,"author":{"id":3581734227956830,"idStr":"3581734227956830","authorId":3581734227956830,"name":"SirBahamut","avatar":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/bfb00d5085e2ed1685d99f51539c6bb1","vip":1,"currentWearingBadge":{"badgeId":"c4ee29b388ff41cc8462b3b7ea00d1e2-1","templateUuid":"c4ee29b388ff41cc8462b3b7ea00d1e2","name":"Monthly Top Contributor","description":"Top 3 Contributors with the most and best Editor's Picks every month","bigImgUrl":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b0cad6192443c33dca826a001250fbd4","smallImgUrl":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/5ccd98c646815ce7610b0df338e060cc","redirectLinkEnabled":1,"redirectLink":"https://ttm.financial/TW/9000980585","hasAllocated":1,"isWearing":1,"stampPosition":0,"hasStamp":0,"allocationCount":1,"allocatedDate":"2022.11.07","individualDisplayEnabled":0,"individualDisplaySort":0,"categoryType":2003},"crmLevel":4,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":894794338,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Liked","text":"Liked","html":"Liked"}],"langContent":"EN"},{"id":894794026,"gmtCreate":1628854763365,"gmtModify":1676529875519,"author":{"id":"3581831647982295","authorId":"3581831647982295","name":"MoonMoon","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/7abc88bf78bc4fd17d5085b308a74c4d","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3581831647982295","authorIdStr":"3581831647982295"},"htmlText":"Like","listText":"Like","text":"Like","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":7,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/894794026","repostId":1140332646,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1140332646","pubTimestamp":1628854463,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1140332646?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-08-13 19:34","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Hong Kong Sees Growth as Much as 6.5% as Spending Recovers","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1140332646","media":"Bloomberg","summary":"Hong Kong raised its economic growth forecast for 2021 as the government slowly eases virus control ","content":"<p>Hong Kong raised its economic growth forecast for 2021 as the government slowly eases virus control measures and cash vouchers help to drive spending in a city hit by the pandemic and protests before that.</p>\n<p>The city now projects gross domestic product growth of 5.5% to 6.5% this year, compared with an earlier range of 3.5% to 5.5%, the statistics department said in a release Friday.</p>\n<p>The government also raised its year-on-year GDP figure for the second quarter to 7.6% from anadvanced readingof 7.5%. On a quarter-on-quarter basis, a better reflection of growth momentum, GDP shrank 0.9%, the finalized data showed. Forecast for underlying inflation is maintained at 1%.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/bb5d5fbe85c2df2f7dec79507a63e585\" tg-width=\"930\" tg-height=\"523\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>“Domestically, if the epidemic remains stable, the improving labor market and the boost from the consumption voucherschemewill help stimulate consumer demand,” government economists said at a briefing Friday. 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On a quarter-on-quarter basis, a better reflection of growth momentum, GDP shrank 0.9%, the finalized data showed. Forecast for underlying inflation is maintained at 1%.\n\n“Domestically, if the epidemic remains stable, the improving labor market and the boost from the consumption voucherschemewill help stimulate consumer demand,” government economists said at a briefing Friday. Vaccination is essential to “a fully-fledged economic recovery,” they added.\nThe economists alsonoteda number of uncertainties ahead, including the delta variant outbreak, U.S.-China relations, geopolitical tensions and major global central banks’ evolving monetary policy stance.\nUneven Recovery\nHong Kong’s economy has faced an uneven recovery from two years of contraction, with retailers and tourism-related businesses particularly hard hit as borders remain shut and travel curtailed to stop the spread of more infectious variants of Covid-19.\nFinancial services and the property market are booming though. 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On a quarter-on-quarter basis, a better reflection of growth momentum, GDP shrank 0.9%, the finalized data showed. Forecast for underlying inflation is maintained at 1%.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/bb5d5fbe85c2df2f7dec79507a63e585\" tg-width=\"930\" tg-height=\"523\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>“Domestically, if the epidemic remains stable, the improving labor market and the boost from the consumption voucherschemewill help stimulate consumer demand,” government economists said at a briefing Friday. Vaccination is essential to “a fully-fledged economic recovery,” they added.</p>\n<p>The economists alsonoteda number of uncertainties ahead, including the delta variant outbreak, U.S.-China relations, geopolitical tensions and major global central banks’ evolving monetary policy stance.</p>\n<p>Uneven Recovery</p>\n<p>Hong Kong’s economy has faced an uneven recovery from two years of contraction, with retailers and tourism-related businesses particularly hard hit as borders remain shut and travel curtailed to stop the spread of more infectious variants of Covid-19.</p>\n<p>Financial services and the property market are booming though. Home prices jumped tothe highest levelsince record began in 1993 on low mortgage rates and rising demand, a separate report showed.</p>\n<p>The unbalanced recovery has exposed deepening wealth imbalances between the city’s working class and elite. Tourism, consumer and services industries are the biggest employers of many of Hong Kong’s working class.</p>\n<p>Hong Kong’s Economy Is Finally Recovering, But Only for the Rich</p>\n<p>In a sign of improvement, the unemployment rate in the consumption and tourism-related sectors fell visibly in the second-quarter, according to the government economists.</p>\n<p>Consumer spending also picked up sharply,growing6.8% in the second quarter from a year ago, up from 2.1% in the first three months of the year.</p>\n<p>The government has begundistributingHK$5,000 ($642) consumption vouchers to eligible residents to encourage spending. The program will cost an estimated HK$36 billion and provide a 0.7 percentage-point bump to this year’s GDP, according to an April governmentreport.</p>","source":"lsy1584095487587","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Hong Kong Sees Growth as Much as 6.5% as Spending Recovers</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nHong Kong Sees Growth as Much as 6.5% as Spending Recovers\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-08-13 19:34 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-13/hong-kong-raises-2021-growth-forecast-as-virus-concerns-ease><strong>Bloomberg</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Hong Kong raised its economic growth forecast for 2021 as the government slowly eases virus control measures and cash vouchers help to drive spending in a city hit by the pandemic and protests before ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-13/hong-kong-raises-2021-growth-forecast-as-virus-concerns-ease\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"HSI":"恒生指数"},"source_url":"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-13/hong-kong-raises-2021-growth-forecast-as-virus-concerns-ease","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1140332646","content_text":"Hong Kong raised its economic growth forecast for 2021 as the government slowly eases virus control measures and cash vouchers help to drive spending in a city hit by the pandemic and protests before that.\nThe city now projects gross domestic product growth of 5.5% to 6.5% this year, compared with an earlier range of 3.5% to 5.5%, the statistics department said in a release Friday.\nThe government also raised its year-on-year GDP figure for the second quarter to 7.6% from anadvanced readingof 7.5%. On a quarter-on-quarter basis, a better reflection of growth momentum, GDP shrank 0.9%, the finalized data showed. Forecast for underlying inflation is maintained at 1%.\n\n“Domestically, if the epidemic remains stable, the improving labor market and the boost from the consumption voucherschemewill help stimulate consumer demand,” government economists said at a briefing Friday. Vaccination is essential to “a fully-fledged economic recovery,” they added.\nThe economists alsonoteda number of uncertainties ahead, including the delta variant outbreak, U.S.-China relations, geopolitical tensions and major global central banks’ evolving monetary policy stance.\nUneven Recovery\nHong Kong’s economy has faced an uneven recovery from two years of contraction, with retailers and tourism-related businesses particularly hard hit as borders remain shut and travel curtailed to stop the spread of more infectious variants of Covid-19.\nFinancial services and the property market are booming though. Home prices jumped tothe highest levelsince record began in 1993 on low mortgage rates and rising demand, a separate report showed.\nThe unbalanced recovery has exposed deepening wealth imbalances between the city’s working class and elite. Tourism, consumer and services industries are the biggest employers of many of Hong Kong’s working class.\nHong Kong’s Economy Is Finally Recovering, But Only for the Rich\nIn a sign of improvement, the unemployment rate in the consumption and tourism-related sectors fell visibly in the second-quarter, according to the government economists.\nConsumer spending also picked up sharply,growing6.8% in the second quarter from a year ago, up from 2.1% in the first three months of the year.\nThe government has begundistributingHK$5,000 ($642) consumption vouchers to eligible residents to encourage spending. The program will cost an estimated HK$36 billion and provide a 0.7 percentage-point bump to this year’s GDP, according to an April governmentreport.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":5517207,"gmtCreate":1628854589951,"gmtModify":1663232326939,"authorId":3586665262468609,"author":{"id":3586665262468609,"idStr":"3586665262468609","authorId":3586665262468609,"name":"Juanaa","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/79c3b47fa6084413a2470d71f79b5c23","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":1,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":894792204,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"I leave","text":"I leave","html":"I leave"}],"langContent":"EN"},{"id":894792800,"gmtCreate":1628854565700,"gmtModify":1676529875479,"author":{"id":"3577592690119548","authorId":"3577592690119548","name":"Kinag","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/3f68091edc02b8d5e110ecb27d16b217","vip":1,"crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":1,"idStr":"3577592690119548","authorIdStr":"3577592690119548"},"htmlText":"Like","listText":"Like","text":"Like","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":6,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/894792800","repostId":1140332646,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1140332646","pubTimestamp":1628854463,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1140332646?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-08-13 19:34","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Hong Kong Sees Growth as Much as 6.5% as Spending Recovers","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1140332646","media":"Bloomberg","summary":"Hong Kong raised its economic growth forecast for 2021 as the government slowly eases virus control ","content":"<p>Hong Kong raised its economic growth forecast for 2021 as the government slowly eases virus control measures and cash vouchers help to drive spending in a city hit by the pandemic and protests before that.</p>\n<p>The city now projects gross domestic product growth of 5.5% to 6.5% this year, compared with an earlier range of 3.5% to 5.5%, the statistics department said in a release Friday.</p>\n<p>The government also raised its year-on-year GDP figure for the second quarter to 7.6% from anadvanced readingof 7.5%. On a quarter-on-quarter basis, a better reflection of growth momentum, GDP shrank 0.9%, the finalized data showed. Forecast for underlying inflation is maintained at 1%.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/bb5d5fbe85c2df2f7dec79507a63e585\" tg-width=\"930\" tg-height=\"523\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>“Domestically, if the epidemic remains stable, the improving labor market and the boost from the consumption voucherschemewill help stimulate consumer demand,” government economists said at a briefing Friday. 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Tourism, consumer and services industries are the biggest employers of many of Hong Kong’s working class.</p>\n<p>Hong Kong’s Economy Is Finally Recovering, But Only for the Rich</p>\n<p>In a sign of improvement, the unemployment rate in the consumption and tourism-related sectors fell visibly in the second-quarter, according to the government economists.</p>\n<p>Consumer spending also picked up sharply,growing6.8% in the second quarter from a year ago, up from 2.1% in the first three months of the year.</p>\n<p>The government has begundistributingHK$5,000 ($642) consumption vouchers to eligible residents to encourage spending. The program will cost an estimated HK$36 billion and provide a 0.7 percentage-point bump to this year’s GDP, according to an April governmentreport.</p>","source":"lsy1584095487587","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Hong Kong Sees Growth as Much as 6.5% as Spending Recovers</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nHong Kong Sees Growth as Much as 6.5% as Spending Recovers\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-08-13 19:34 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-13/hong-kong-raises-2021-growth-forecast-as-virus-concerns-ease><strong>Bloomberg</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Hong Kong raised its economic growth forecast for 2021 as the government slowly eases virus control measures and cash vouchers help to drive spending in a city hit by the pandemic and protests before ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-13/hong-kong-raises-2021-growth-forecast-as-virus-concerns-ease\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"HSI":"恒生指数"},"source_url":"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-13/hong-kong-raises-2021-growth-forecast-as-virus-concerns-ease","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1140332646","content_text":"Hong Kong raised its economic growth forecast for 2021 as the government slowly eases virus control measures and cash vouchers help to drive spending in a city hit by the pandemic and protests before that.\nThe city now projects gross domestic product growth of 5.5% to 6.5% this year, compared with an earlier range of 3.5% to 5.5%, the statistics department said in a release Friday.\nThe government also raised its year-on-year GDP figure for the second quarter to 7.6% from anadvanced readingof 7.5%. On a quarter-on-quarter basis, a better reflection of growth momentum, GDP shrank 0.9%, the finalized data showed. Forecast for underlying inflation is maintained at 1%.\n\n“Domestically, if the epidemic remains stable, the improving labor market and the boost from the consumption voucherschemewill help stimulate consumer demand,” government economists said at a briefing Friday. Vaccination is essential to “a fully-fledged economic recovery,” they added.\nThe economists alsonoteda number of uncertainties ahead, including the delta variant outbreak, U.S.-China relations, geopolitical tensions and major global central banks’ evolving monetary policy stance.\nUneven Recovery\nHong Kong’s economy has faced an uneven recovery from two years of contraction, with retailers and tourism-related businesses particularly hard hit as borders remain shut and travel curtailed to stop the spread of more infectious variants of Covid-19.\nFinancial services and the property market are booming though. Home prices jumped tothe highest levelsince record began in 1993 on low mortgage rates and rising demand, a separate report showed.\nThe unbalanced recovery has exposed deepening wealth imbalances between the city’s working class and elite. Tourism, consumer and services industries are the biggest employers of many of Hong Kong’s working class.\nHong Kong’s Economy Is Finally Recovering, But Only for the Rich\nIn a sign of improvement, the unemployment rate in the consumption and tourism-related sectors fell visibly in the second-quarter, according to the government economists.\nConsumer spending also picked up sharply,growing6.8% in the second quarter from a year ago, up from 2.1% in the first three months of the year.\nThe government has begundistributingHK$5,000 ($642) consumption vouchers to eligible residents to encourage spending. The program will cost an estimated HK$36 billion and provide a 0.7 percentage-point bump to this year’s GDP, according to an April governmentreport.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"}],"hasMoreComments":true,"newsSizeData":{"likeSize":55,"commentSize":13,"repostSize":0,"favoriteSize":0,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false}}