Hong Kong’s bull run leaves China in the dust

香港牛市让中国望尘莫及

FT News Briefing

2025-07-02

9 分钟
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The UK government passed its welfare reform bill after making concessions, and Hong Kong’s stocks are beating out mainland China’s. Plus, Eurozone inflation rises to 2 per cent, and Europe turns to France to process rare earths. Mentioned in this podcast: Starmer guts UK welfare reforms to avoid Commons defeat Hong Kong’s bull market leaves China behind  Eurozone inflation rises to ECB’s 2% target European companies look to France for domestic rare earths sector  Today’s FT News Briefing was produced by Sonja Hutson, Kasia Broussalian, and Fiona Symon. Additional help from Kelly Garry and Michael Lello. Our acting co-head of audio is Topher Forhecz. Our intern is Michaela Seah. The show’s theme song is by Metaphor Music. Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • Good morning from the Financial Times.

  • Today is Wednesday, July 2nd, and this is your FT News Briefing.

  • The UK government got its welfare bill over the line, but only after huge concessions.

  • And Hong Kong's stock market is leaving mainland China's in the dust.

  • Meanwhile, China has a chokehold on the world's critical minerals.

  • Can France change that?

  • What's at stake really is the kind of viability and functioning of integral supply chains from wind turbine manufacturing to car manufacturing in Europe.

  • I'm Sonia Hudson and here's the news you need to start your day.

  • UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer gutted his welfare reform bill yesterday and only then got it through the House of Commons.

  • But the move leaves a multi-billion dollar hole in the country's public finances.

  • Starmer faced a massive rebellion from his own Labour Party over the controversial bill.

  • It was initially supposed to save five billion pounds,