HONG KONG -- New stock listings in Hong Kong have had their best start to a year ever and the pace is set to accelerate with $28 billion of anticipated share sales already lined up.
The city is attracting growing volumes of initial public offerings from mainland Chinese companies as well as so-called homecoming listings by U.S.-traded companies, which are seeking to hedge the threat of being banished from U.S. exchanges amid tensions between Beijing and Washington.
