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1st LD: Hong Kong stocks plummet more than 4 pct

Xinhua, July 8, 2015 Adjust font size:

Hong Kong stocks slumped over 1, 100 points, or 4.7 percent at the start of Wednesday's trading, led by sharp losses on mainland markets and panic selling.

Hong Kong blue chips dived. Heavyweight HSBC fell 2.4 percent; China Mobile lost 4.8 percent; HKEX was down 5.4 percent.

The benchmark Hang Seng Index fell 2.26 percent to open at 24, 411 points. Endi