China, HK stocks having a big up day | Forexlive

Chinese mainland stocks are perhaps enjoying the very weak yuan, helping to hurry along inflows.

• The Shanghai Composite is around 1.6% higher in morning trade

In HK its an even stronger story:

• Hang Seng is +3.6%
• The tech index in HK is +5.6%

The data from China today was a manufacturing PMI above last month but still in contraction: