BCN-11 Hong Kong stocks start week with losses

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Hong Kong stocks start week with losses

HONG KONG, April 15, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – Hong Kong stocks ended Monday with
losses as optimism over the corporate earnings season and China-US trade
talks was overshadowed by a late sell-off.

The Hang Seng Index slipped 0.33 percent, or 99.04 points, to close at
29,810.72.

The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index lost 0.34 percent, or 10.84 points,
to 3,177.79 and the Shenzhen Composite Index, which tracks stocks on China’s
second exchange, shed 0.84 percent, or 14.61 points, to 1,723.91.

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