{"id":301623,"date":"2026-02-25T15:09:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T15:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/301623\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T15:09:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T15:09:22","slug":"hong-kong-stock-listing-boom-helps-city-escape-string-of-deficits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/301623\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong stock listing boom helps city escape string of deficits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/economy\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Budget speech reveals plan to raise debt ceiling to fund infrastructure<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/8\/7.jpeg\" alt=\"20260225  Tsim Sha Tsui\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Hong Kong&#8217;s government is raising its debt ceiling, with proceeds from bond issuances earmarked for infrastructure development. (Photo by Yuki Kohara)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>LORRETTA CHEN<\/p>\n<p>February 25, 2026 18:05 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">HONG KONG &#8212;\u00a0The Hong Kong government on Wednesday said it will log\u00a0its\u00a0first operating budget surplus after three consecutive years of deficit, thanks to a stock listing\u00a0boom and economic recovery, while it steps up plans for more debt-loading.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Economy Budget speech reveals plan to raise debt ceiling to fund infrastructure Hong Kong&#8217;s government is raising its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[16424,138,2199,165525,219,22857,34888,20588,45499,44266,111,139,69,781,42909],"class_list":{"0":"post-301623","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-boom","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-city","11":"tag-deficits","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-escape","14":"tag-helps","15":"tag-hong","16":"tag-kong","17":"tag-listing","18":"tag-new-zealand","19":"tag-newzealand","20":"tag-nz","21":"tag-stock","22":"tag-string"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}