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title: "Hong Kong stocks intraday | The three major indices continue to decline, the Hang Seng Tech drops over 2%, automotive and semiconductor sectors fall together, while AI concepts remain active against the trend"
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description: "On the afternoon of May 18th, the Hong Kong stock market continued its weak downward trend, with the Hang Seng Technology Index plunging over 2%. Pressured by both geopolitical tensions and soaring U.S. Treasury yields, technology heavyweights, automotive, and semiconductor sectors generally faced sharp declines, with Li Auto dropping nearly 14% and SMIC falling over 3%. On the other hand, the logic of high industrial prosperity continued to ferment, with optical fiber and cable and AI concept stocks rising against the trend; additionally, some small-cap stocks experienced significant fluctuations, with Jin Hui Holdings soaring over 55%"
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# Hong Kong stocks intraday | The three major indices continue to decline, the Hang Seng Tech drops over 2%, automotive and semiconductor sectors fall together, while AI concepts remain active against the trend

**Market Overview**

▪ During intraday trading, the three major indices of the Hong Kong stock market continued to decline, with active trading in the market;

▪ The Hang Seng Index reported 25,561.340 points, down 1.55%;

▪ The Hang Seng Tech Index reported 4,820.100 points, down 2.45%;

▪ The China Enterprises Index reported 8,564.020 points, down 1.46%.

**Sector Performance and Hot Stocks**

**The new energy vehicle sector significantly corrected, with Li Auto leading the decline**

▪ Li Auto-W (02015.HK) plummeted 13.89%, closing at HKD 65.1, with a trading volume of about HKD 3 billion;

▪ Leapmotor (09863.HK) fell nearly 9%; Geely Automobile (00175.HK) dropped nearly 5%; BYD Company (01211.HK) decreased by nearly 3%. The intelligent driving concept stock Horizon Robotics-W (09660.HK) also fell over 6%.

**The semiconductor sector weakened along with the market, facing cooling in overseas supply chains**

▪ SMIC (00981.HK) fell 3.51%, closing at HKD 68.65, with a trading volume of about HKD 6.4 billion;

▪ Tianyu Advanced (02631.HK) dropped over 8%; Lattice Semiconductor (06809.HK) fell nearly 2%; Hua Hong Semiconductor (01347.HK) decreased by nearly 1%.

**Optical fiber and cable and AI concepts rose against the trend, with computing power chains maintaining high prosperity**

▪ Yangtze Optical Fibre and Cable (06869.HK) rose over 4%, closing at HKD 232.2;

▪ Shenghong Technology (02476.HK) increased over 7%, Zhaoyi Innovation (03986.HK) rose nearly 6%; Zhizhu (02513.HK) gained over 6%.

**Tech weights, real estate, and large financial sectors generally under pressure**

▪ Tencent Holdings (00700.HK) fell 2.06%, Alibaba-W (09988.HK) dropped 0.98%;

▪ China Resources Land (01109.HK) fell over 6%; HSBC Holdings (00005.HK) and AIA Group (01299.HK) both decreased nearly 2%.

**Individual Stock Movements**

▪ Jin Hui Holdings (09993.HK) surged 55.51%, closing at HKD 4.09, with a trading volume of about HKD 2.7 billion; Wuyi Vision (06651.HK) rose over 33%; Ocean Park Hong Kong (02255.HK) increased over 25%.

**Macroeconomic Background**

▪ Macroeconomic liquidity under pressure: The 30-year U.S. Treasury yield surpassed 5.1%, with global bond yields generally rising, directly exerting valuation pressure on interest rate-sensitive sectors such as technology and real estate in the Hong Kong stock market.

▪ Disruption in overseas semiconductor supply chains: Samsung Electronics is facing an unprecedented large-scale strike crisis, with nearly 47,000 workers planning to strike for 18 days, posing significant potential losses and directly dragging down semiconductor sentiment in the Asia-Pacific region, with the Seoul Composite Index plummeting over 10% in two days.

▪ Long-term positive outlook for the AI industry: IDC predicts that China's AI application public cloud service market will exceed 13.7 billion yuan by 2025; combined with expectations of TSMC's CPO plan soon entering mass production and a surge in demand for ABF substrates, the AI hardware and application sectors have become a rare safe haven in today's weak market **Market Trading Volume TOP10**

▪ TRACKER FUND (02800.HK) Latest trading price HKD 25.76, down 1.38%, trading volume HKD 15.9 billion

▪ Alibaba-W (09988.HK) Latest trading price HKD 131.00, down 0.98%, trading volume HKD 10.1 billion

▪ Tencent Holdings (00700.HK) Latest trading price HKD 447.00, down 2.06%, trading volume HKD 9.6 billion

▪ SMIC (00981.HK) Latest trading price HKD 68.65, down 3.51%, trading volume HKD 6.4 billion

▪ CSOP HSI Tech (03033.HK) Latest trading price HKD 4.726, down 2.15%, trading volume HKD 5.9 billion

▪ Hang Seng China Enterprises (02828.HK) Latest trading price HKD 87.92, down 1.32%, trading volume HKD 5.6 billion

▪ FI2 CSOP HSI (07709.HK) Latest trading price HKD 90.18, down 0.81%, trading volume HKD 5.2 billion

▪ Li Auto-W (02015.HK) Latest trading price HKD 65.10, down 13.89%, trading volume HKD 3 billion

▪ Jin Hui Holdings (09993.HK) Latest trading price HKD 4.09, up 55.51%, trading volume HKD 2.7 billion

▪ Xiaomi Group-W (01810.HK) Latest trading price HKD 30.50, down 0.65%, trading volume HKD 2.6 billion

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