Hong Kong stocks suffered their worst day in more than three months on Monday as long-running protests in the city saw escalating levels of violence
The Hang Seng Index dropped more than 2.6%, its worst single-day percentage decline since the beginning of August, according to Refinitiv data. Monday's declines came on the heels of new and shocking levels of violence in the Asian financial hub. A traffic officer shot a 21-year-old protester and fired two more live rounds early in the day. The protester had surgery and is in critical condition, hospital authorities say.
The city's real estate stocks were hit particularly hard, with big property developers like Swire Pacific , Wharf Real Estate, Sun Hung Kai Properties and New World Development all dropping more than 4%. While Hong Kong led losses in the region, other major Asian markets were all down Monday as investors also tried to make sense of the muddled state of US-China trade relations.China's Shanghai Composite declined 1.8%. South Korea's Kospi slumped 0.6%. Japan's Nikkei edged down 0.
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