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Fifa, football’s governing body, previously warned the HKFA over booing.

People look at the exchange rate at a moneychanger displaying a poster of USA dollar bill, Chinese yuan and Malaysian ringgit in Singapore August 24, 2015.

The European and USA markets ended firmly in the red and the Asian bourses figure to open in similar fashion.

“China shares were up for the third day on the trot, a running streak unseen for a month thanks to optimism surrounding President Xi’s state visit to the USA”, said Mike Van Dulken, analysts at Accendo Markets.

Korea’s benchmark Kospi index is up 0.32 percent at 1,970 points.

MSCI Asia Pacific Excluding Japan Index fell 2.1 percent to 399.04 as of 10:38 a.m.in Hong Kong, as commodity producers led declines after raw-material prices tumbled. Oil dropped. Australian bonds gave back Monday’s gains.

The gauge gained 0.4 per cent to 3,098.29 at the 11:30 a.m. local- time break in volumes 47 per cent below the 30-day average.

The CSI 300 Index of the biggest companies traded in Shanghai and Shenzhen rose 4.98 percent or 157.02 points to end at 3,309.25 points.

In comparison, the benchmark Shanghai Composite index finished down by a smaller 2.67%.

CKI will issue 1.36 billion new shares to buy the 61 percent of Power Assets it does not own, the companies said in a joint securities filing.

ASIA’S DAY: The Shanghai Composite Index posted its first gain in six days, bouncing back from losses that triggered worldwide selling and wiped almost 23 percent off its value over the past week.

China’s central bank cut interest rates and lowered the amount of reserves banks must hold for the second time in two months on Tuesday, ratcheting up support for a stuttering economy and a plunging stock market that has sent shockwaves around the globe. The Nasdaq...

The Standard & Poor’s 500 index lost 13 points, or 0.6 percent, to 2,083 and the Nasdaq composite fell 29 points, or 0.6 percent, to 5,030.

We are not expecting conditions to worsen in China.

Japan’s Nikkei 225 Index dropped by 4.61% to 18,540.68.