Since March, it has been consistently underperforming the territory's Hang Seng index.

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In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng Index has gained 17.6 per cent this year, making it the best-performing major market in the world.

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The SAR says it bought blue chips to foil speculators, who it believes were attacking the Hong Kong dollar so the Hang Seng stock market index would fall (they supposedly placed huge bets on a plunging Hang Seng).

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