--- title: "From chasing robots to chasing profits: the numbers moving markets" type: "News" locale: "en" url: "https://longbridge.com/en/news/296009706.md" description: "Markets focused on Unitree Robotics' IPO with low subscription odds, US July inflation at 3.4%, and gold hitting a nine-week high of $4,449. CK Hutchison Holdings reported a 31-fold surge in H1 profit to HK$26.8 billion, driven by UK asset disposals. Meanwhile, a survey revealed real estate ranks seventh among Hong Kong wealthy individuals' life goals, behind travel and early retirement." datetime: "2026-08-16T01:06:22.000Z" locales: - [zh-CN](https://longbridge.com/zh-CN/news/296009706.md) - [en](https://longbridge.com/en/news/296009706.md) - [zh-HK](https://longbridge.com/zh-HK/news/296009706.md) generator: "portal-rs" --- # From chasing robots to chasing profits: the numbers moving markets While Chinese investors faced down long odds for a stake in Unitree Robotics amid a broader frenzy for high-performing tech stocks, the market this week also focused on the implications of July’s US inflation rate, gold price trends and the interim results of CK Hutchison Holdings, one of the flagship companies owned by the family of Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing. Unitree’s retail subscription rate: 0.0181 per cent Millions of retail investors in China rushed to subscribe to Unitree Robotics on Monday, as nearly 9.8 million trading accounts competed for 9.7 million shares, yielding an online allocation rate of just 0.0181 per cent – or roughly one winning lot per 5,500 applicants. The slim subscription odds for the Hangzhou-based maker of embodied artificial intelligence hardware undercut those of other recent tech debuts, including the 0.47 per cent rate seen in July for memory chip maker ChangXin Memory Technologies. Unitree raised 6.1 billion yuan (US$904 million) at 150.80 yuan a share, giving the robotics pioneer a valuation of 60.99 billion yuan. Real estate’s place on priority list: seventh Real estate is no longer among the top life goals of most rich Hongkongers as travel emerges as a form of investment, a Standard Chartered survey showed this week. Only 24 per cent of affluent residents with at least HK$1 million (US$127,449) in investible assets cited home ownership as a key life goal, placing it seventh. Immersive travel took second place at 48 per cent – trailing only early retirement at 49 per cent – with high-net-worth respondents (those with investible assets of HK$7.8 million or more) budgeting an average of HK$345,000 for travel this year. Gold price hits nine-week high: US$4,449 Spot gold rallied from US$4,409 an ounce on Tuesday to hit an intraday high of US$4,449 on Thursday, marking its highest level in nine weeks before closing 1.3 per cent lower at US$4,351. Central bank demand provided baseline support, led by the People’s Bank of China extending its buying run to 21 consecutive months with a 640,000-ounce July addition, as global official sector net purchases reached 289 tonnes in the second quarter, up 62 per cent year on year. July’s US consumer inflation rate: 3.4 per cent The annual inflation rate in the US slowed for a second consecutive month to 3.4 per cent in July from 3.5 per cent a month earlier. The figure, largely in line with market expectations, has eased market concerns about the potential for the US Federal Reserve under Kevin Warsh to quickly raise interest rates. CK Hutchison Holdings’ first-half profit: 31-fold surge CK Hutchison Holdings, the flagship port-to-telecoms conglomerate owned by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing’s family, reported a 3,046 per cent surge in first-half profit to HK$26.8 billion (US$3.42 billion) on Thursday. It was boosted by HK$17.75 billion in gains from the disposal of interests in UK Rails and UK Power Networks. Excluding one-off items, underlying profit rose 7 per cent to HK$12.58 billion as revenue reached HK$255.4 billion. 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