Free Booze, Workations and Monsters in Your Sleep: Saturday Asia Briefing
Hong Kong tries to bring back the good times.
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Feeling sleepy? This week we join the work-from-anywhere junkies who juggle jetsetting with nocturnal conference calls, find monsters in our sleep, feel the lure of Hong Kong nightlife and look at why China is still struggling to rouse its stock market from a coma.
A flurry of new measures to bolster the world’s second-biggest stock market have fallen flat. Chinese stocks and the yuan are now close to their weakest levels in more than 15 years relative to their US peers as investors lose faith in Beijing’s ability to thwart deflation and revive the property market and consumer spending.