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Provided by Dow Jones By Quentin Webb Officials in two of Asia's biggest financial centers are watching U.S. markets warily, concerned that local investors could get hurt by piling into American meme stocks, or that the behavior could spread to their home turf. On Wednesday, Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission warned investors about "the risks of trading highly volatile securities, including overseas-listed stocks as investment discussion forums in social media gain prominence and become increasingly influential." "Investors should carefully manage mark...

Provided by Dow Jones By Quentin Webb Officials in two of Asia's biggest financial centers are watching U.S. markets warily, concerned that local investors could get hurt by piling into American meme stocks, or that the behavior could spread to their home turf. On Wednesday, Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission warned investors about "the risks of trading highly volatile securities, including overseas-listed stocks as investment discussion forums in social media gain prominence and become increasingly influential." "Investors should carefully manage mark...

TikTok rival’s $5.4 billion IPO draws big investor following The initial public offering is set to be the world’s largest in more than a year, and will value the company at nearly $61 billion. Kuaishou, which is backed by Tencent Holdings Ltd., competes with ByteDance Ltd., the Chinese company behind TikTok and its sister app Douyin. (AP) Joanne Chiu, Share Via Read Full Story Chinese short-video app operator Kuaishou Technology will raise $5.4 billion from its Hong Kong listing, hitting its maximum fundraising target after meeting strong investor demand. The initial public offering is s...

5 min read EMEA Margrethe Vestager isn’t wasting any time. Just months after becoming the European Union’s competition chief, the Danish politician moved beyond her predecessors’ cautious policies to confront the monsters of the digital and energy worlds – Google and Gazprom. But her ambitious battles on Eastern and Western fronts may have one clear beneficiary: Europe’s mergers and acquisitions boom. In a matter of weeks, the “Iron Woman of Denmark” picked up dossiers moldering in the filing cabinets of Joaquin Almunia, the prior competition chief, and turned them into action. ...