Hong Kong Stocks’ Yawning Gap Versus World Keeps Getting Wider

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Stock investors lost more money in Hong Kong than in most places this quarter. Again.

The Hang Seng Index has lost 4%, lagging MSCI Inc.’s gauge of global stocks by more than 10 percentage points for a second quarter running. The Hong Kong benchmark has not seen back-to-back underperformance of that magnitude in data going back to the 1990s. Nearly a third of Hang Seng members lost 11% or more during the period.