Hong Kong is seeing an omen of economic retreat in the first quarter of this year, with foreign exchange funds at an never-seen loss of $7.2 billion from two years ago, and the GDP devalued by 4 percent.
A May 3 advanced estimate released by the Hong Kong government suggested that in the first quarter, the region’s GDP is estimated to drop by 4 percent due to fragile demands, both domestically and internationally. Among them, private consumption expenditure fell by 5.4 percent year-on-year, while exports and imports plummeted by 4.5 percent and 5.9 percent, respectively.
