Hong Kong shares have outperformed their mainland peers by the largest margin in nearly two decades, as money pours in from China due to worries about the domestic economy and enthusiasm for the territory’s technology stocks.
The benchmark Hang Seng index is up 16.4 per cent this year compared with a 1.2 per cent decline in mainland China’s CSI 300 index — the biggest outperformance year to date since 2008.
The rally has been boosted by the rise of DeepSeek, the Chinese start-up that claims artificial intelligence advances using far less computing power than US rivals, which has encouraged investor appetite for Hong Kong-listed technology stocks.