Investors looked into the fissure that had been the Hong Kong stock exchange - and a phoenix arose. The Hang Seng index regained two-thirds of its 10.4 percent loss Thursday, and that performance encouraged rebounds on most of the world's major exchanges: London, Paris, Frankfurt, and Tokyo all recouped large portions of their roughly 3 percent Thursday losses. Many regional markets, though, including those in South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, New Zealand, and Australia, fell.
Overseas Markets Rebound
Investors looked into the fissure that had been the Hong Kong stock exchange - and a phoenix arose. The Hang Seng index regained two-thirds of its 10.4 percent loss Thursday, and that performance encouraged rebounds on most of the world's major exchanges: London, Paris, Frankfurt, and Tokyo all recouped large portions of their roughly 3 percent Thursday losses. Many regional markets, though, including those in South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, New Zealand, and Australia, fell.
