HONG KONG] Hong Kong’s stock exchange is discussing options to lower the threshold for investors to buy some of the city’s most expensive stocks to stoke trading, according to sources familiar with the matter.

Mainland Chinese investors are piling into the Hong Kong stock market at record volumes as its tech-heavy Hang Seng Index trades around three-year highs.

Asian equities were mixed but mostly lower overnight as the Philippines and Japan outperformed while Thailand and Hong Kong underperformed.

VCG. As of the end of last year, 1,478 Chinese mainland companies were listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX), making up more than 80 percen

Mainland Chinese investors are taking positions in Hong Kong’s stock market, injecting billions into the city’s equities and reducing their valuation discount to onshore counterparts. Investors are seemingly looking towards the special Asian administration’s markets to lessen the effects of an impending trade war between China and the US.