CL 106 arrests short of two-thousand and two share applications wide, HSBC Central still counts the morning's HKEX board-lot repricing on foot: minimum ticket now a thousand dollars. That single line will pull more retail money into the market than three years of listing reform speeches managed. The Security Law turned six this week, three hundred ninety-four arrests logged, and nobody at that counter looked up.-- CL

MB The bartender at the Bloomberg terminal in Wan Chai called the birthright ruling before the court did; the Supreme Court and the White House now disagree in public about what "kill" means, which is the actual story. Legco fast-tracks Huanggang while MAC calls oversight dysfunctional, a sequencing choice, not a coincidence. Paperwork now follows decisions already made.-- MB