{"id":100239,"date":"2025-08-27T07:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T07:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/100239\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T07:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T07:04:09","slug":"hong-kong-interest-rate-surge-puts-struggling-economy-to-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/100239\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong interest rate surge puts struggling economy to test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/markets\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Markets<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">HIBOR climbs to three-month high, ending cheap credit and carry trade<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/3\/2.jpeg\" alt=\"20250826 hk dollar note\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">The sudden upturn\u00a0in the Hong Kong interbank offered rate\u00a0signals the unwinding of a monthslong window for the so-called carry trade. \u00a9 Reuters<\/p>\n<p>LORRETTA CHEN<\/p>\n<p>August 27, 2025 11:58 JST<\/p>\n<p id=\"docs-internal-guid-893c3252-7fff-6db0-e497-7451091df5a8\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">HONG KONG &#8212; A recent jump in Hong Kong dollar borrowing costs is threatening to stifle early signs of recovery in the local real estate market and dampen the Hang Seng stock index&#8217;s stellar performance for the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Markets HIBOR climbs to three-month high, ending cheap credit and carry trade The sudden upturn\u00a0in the Hong Kong&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46,58048,23029,58049,58051,2735,58052,58050,211],"class_list":["post-100239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy","tag-hong","tag-interest","tag-kong","tag-puts","tag-rate","tag-struggling","tag-surge","tag-test"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}