Hong Kong Stock Market Weekly Highlights | HSBC Holdings and other companies to announce earnings MSCI China Index adjustment takes effect

Cailian Press, February 23 (Editor: Feng Yi) Here are the Hong Kong stock market highlights for this week:

Overseas Macro

Monday (February 23): Federal Reserve Board Member Waller delivers a speech.

Tuesday (February 24): U.S. President Trump delivers the State of the Union address; the new tariff rate of 15% on additional imports takes effect today; U.S. Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index for the month.

Thursday (February 26): U.S. initial unemployment claims data released.

Friday (February 27): U.S. Producer Price Index (PPI) for January released.

China Macro

Tuesday (February 24): China announces the 1-year and 5-year Loan Prime Rates.

Industry News

Tuesday (February 24): Apple holds its annual shareholders’ meeting.

Wednesday (February 25): NVIDIA and Salesforce release earnings.

Friday (February 27): China Securities Index Co. releases the CSI Hong Kong Stock Connect Robot Theme Index; the 2026 Silver Age Cultural Tourism Innovation Development Conference and All-region Ecological Integration Industry Expo will be held in Nanjing on February 27.

Hong Kong Stock Market News

Tuesday (February 24): Standard Chartered Group announces earnings.

Wednesday (February 25): Hong Kong’s new fiscal budget is released; the People’s Bank of China issues 30 billion yuan of 3-month and 20 billion yuan of 1-year RMB central bank bills via Hong Kong tenders; HSBC Holdings reports earnings.

Thursday (February 26): Baidu, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing, and Ctrip Group release earnings.

Friday (February 27): MSCI China Index adjustments for February take effect after market close.

According to previous arrangements, the MSCI China Index (MSCI China Index) will include 37 stocks such as LEO Holdings, Silver Mine, Anji Technology, and Xiaoma Zhixing. Meanwhile, 16 stocks including Fosun International, Great Wall Motors, and Vanke Enterprise will be removed.