Hang Seng closes down 3.05%, handing global markets a weak start

As seen on the 24/7 Wall St. homepage on October 22, 2026.

CLOSING BELL

Asia

4:00am ET

🇭🇰 Hang Seng-3.05%
🇨🇳 SSE Composite-1.21%

Hong Kong gave up 3.05% after opening flat, a full-session unwind that hands Europe and the US a weak baseline. Shanghai's smaller 1.21% loss shows the selling was concentrated offshore.

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The Hang Seng shed 92 points to close at 2,922, finishing near its session lows after a full day in the red. Losses deepened steadily from the open, a sign of sustained selling pressure.

Shanghai's SSE Composite fell 1.21%, less than half the Hang Seng's 3.05% decline, placing the selling in Hong Kong listed shares.

For investors opening sessions in Europe and the US, the Hang Seng's close sets a weak baseline. A move of this size in a major Asian benchmark typically travels, and traders will need to account for a Hong Kong market that gave up ground all day with no recovery attempt.

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MARKET OPEN

Europe

3:00am ET

🇬🇧 FTSE 100+0.13%
🇩🇪 DAX-0.77%
🇫🇷 CAC 40+0.15%

London and Paris opened higher while Germany's DAX dropped 0.8%, the widest split across Europe's three big benchmarks in this session. Anyone treating Europe as one trade is already on the wrong side of it.

MARKET OPEN

Asia

Oct 21, 9:30pm ET

🇭🇰 Hang Seng—
🇨🇳 SSE Composite—

Hong Kong opened within a point of its prior close at 3,014.77, a standstill that says traders want proof on China stimulus before committing. Shanghai opened just as flat, so Asia is handing US investors no directional cue today.

MARKET OPEN

Nikkei 225 🇯🇵 JPX

Oct 21, 8:00pm ET

+0.24%

408.13

Tokyo opened 0.24% higher, the first read global investors get before US futures wake up. With economists pencilling in a Bank of Japan hike to 1.50% in December, every yen tick now runs straight through exporter earnings.

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