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Total retail sales down 8.9% in the first 10 months of 2016

No thanks to the 8.2% drop in Mainland visitor arrivals.

Total retail sales down 8.9% in the first 10 months of 2016

No thanks to the 8.2% drop in Mainland visitor arrivals.

Cathay Dragon eyes replacing 23 planes in narrowbody fleet

The first of the new planes is expected to arrive by 2019.

Sales of luxury goods plunged 19.7%

No thanks to the consistently dropping arrivals from mainland.

Hong Kong Central's Grade A office rents to inch up 0-5% in 2017

Rents are now up to 3.3 times costlier than in non-core areas.

Hong Kong banks' property loans expected to perform well

Loan-to-value ratios are amongst the lowest across Asia Pacific.

Home prices to increase 5% in 2017

It has become harder for Hong Kong developers to win development sites.

Why Hong Kongers enjoy work-life balance less than Singaporeans

They bring home work more often than those in Singapore.

Retail sales now more driven by local consumption than tourist spending

The share of local expenditure in total sales reached 67% in 1H16.