Hong Kong’s stockmarket regains its mojo

Hong Kong is poised to regain its crown as the world’s premier listings venue, says Sherry Qin in The Wall Street Journal. The city has hosted 41 public offerings valued at $13.66bn already this year, surpassing the Nasdaq and New York Stock Exchange figures once blank cheque offerings are excluded (see column). Enthusiasm about Chinese technology stocks and secondary listings from the mainland are powering the local Hang Seng index, which is substantially outperforming the New York and mainland...