Hang Seng fell by 3.22% to 18,814.45 on Friday 6th January.

Most Asian stock markets people on Wednesday as issues over a worldwide recession and charge per unit hikes by the Federal Reserve worn sentiment, with the scaling back of anti-COVID curbs in China doing very little to discourage commercialism pressure. China’s Shanghai Shenzhen CSI three hundred indexes fell to zero.6%, whereas the Shanghai Composite index lost zero.7%.

 however, whereas China printed plans to relax its zero-COVID policy, the economic repercussions of the policy continue to weigh. Chinese exports and imports sank to their weakest level since mid-2020, information showed on Wednesday. Beijing declared an additional scaling back of COVID-related restrictions on Wednesday, with relaxed curbs on movement and business activities. The move comes when many major cities began easing curbs within the face of new protests the government’s strict zero-COVID policy.

 Still, the country faces its worst irruption nonetheless in terms of infections, with analysts’ prognostication near-term volatility in native markets as COVID cases increase. Chinese technology stocks additionally took very little relief from the scaling back of a U.S. proposal to put strict controls on semiconductor sales to the country. Hong Kong’s suspend Seng index sank zero.7%, whereas the Taiwan Weighted index, that is heavily exposed to China, lost 0.7%. Broader sentiment towards Asian stocks remained weak, particularly when prime executives at many Wall Street banks warned of a possible recession in 2023.

The warning severely bent sentiment towards risk-driven assets, additionally dragging Wall Street indexes lower. Some stronger-than-expected U.S. information on additionally drove issues that inflation can stay pig-headedly high within the coming months, attractive additional charge per unit hikes by the Federal Reserve.

Long-Term Technical Analysis

This daily chart indicates that Hang Seng Index was trading in a downward channel, Currently, it is trading above all SMA except MA (50), RSI is in buying zone which indicates bullishness, and MACD is below zero which indicates bearishness.