Morning trading on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on Monday ended with a drop in quotations. The Hang Seng Index („Han Sen”) fell by 315 points (1.38%) – to a value of 22,452 points, according to this site.
Initially, operations opened in the positive zone, but quickly turned into a decline. Securities of the Russian aluminum giant Rusal fell by 12.21% to 5.75 Hong Kong dollars per unit ($0.74).
According to experts, the situation in Ukraine still exerts serious pressure on the market. Although many assets have fallen sharply in last week’s crashes and are trading at a price well below their real value, investors are in no hurry to buy them.
In particular, the shares of high-tech companies are noticeably losing. The positions of AAC Technologies holding (Hey-hey-si technologies), a supplier of components for Apple, worsened by 5.62%.