Hong Kong’s economy showed resilience in the first quarter of 2026 amid volatility in the equity and oil markets brought by war in the Middle East, the city’s finance chief has said.
In a review of the city’s economic health in the first three months of this year, Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po on Sunday attributed Hong Kong’s performance to the steady growth of mainland China’s economy, with the city leveraging the situation to establish itself as a global hi-tech financing hub.
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