HONG KONG -- The mainland-Hong Kong Bond Connect program started trading on the first working day following Chinese President Xi Jinping's three-day visit to Hong Kong to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the city's handover to China by Britain.
A total of 142 deals worth 7.05 billion yuan ($1.04 billion) were traded among 70 overseas institutions on Monday when the market closed Monday. Of those, 128 transactions were initiated by the buyside, according to the China Foreign Exchange Trade System.
