Market Performance - Hang Seng Index (恒指) fell by 245 points or 0.9%, closing at 25,781 points[1] - Shanghai Composite Index (滬指) decreased by 2 points or 0.07%, ending at 3,913 points[1] - S&P 500 dropped by 35 points or 0.5%, closing at 6,699 points[2] Trading Volume - Total trading volume in the Hong Kong market reached 227.54 billion HKD[1] - Shanghai Stock Exchange's trading volume was 741.5 billion CNY[1] - Shenzhen Component Index (深證成指) recorded a trading volume of 926.3 billion CNY[1] Currency and Monetary Policy - The central parity rate of RMB against USD was adjusted down by 24 points to 7.0954[1] - People's Bank of China conducted a 138.2 billion CNY reverse repo operation at a rate of 1.4%[1] - Net injection of liquidity was 94.7 billion CNY after 43.5 billion CNY reverse repos matured[1] Corporate Earnings - Sands China (金沙中國) reported a net revenue increase of 7.5% year-on-year to 1.9 billion USD for Q3[3] - China Unicom (中國聯通) posted a revenue of 292.985 billion CNY, up 1% year-on-year, with a net profit growth of 5.1%[3]