hong kong markets opened on a strong note on wednesday morning taking cues from an upbeat wall street session where major indices closed about 3 higher the benchmark hang seng index traded 5 higher in the opening session following a holiday on tuesday shares of alibaba traded over 7 higher while jdcoms stock soared over 9 other major stocks such as meituan baidu and nio surged by over 6 also read how to buy chinese stocks macro news china and russia are opposed to a public discussion by the un security council after the united states asked the 15member body to meet on north korea following pyongyang’s ballistic missile launch over japan reported reuters china is looking to normalize its military activities around taiwan including crossing the median line of the taiwan strait reported reuters citing the taiwanese defense ministry company news apple inc aapl added six new chinese suppliers and dropped seven previous contractors in china during its past financial year to september reported the south china morning post gruby entertainment has announced tencent is now a minority shareholder of its studio reported gamesindustrybiz top gainers and losers anta sports products limited and jdcom inc are the top gainers among the hang seng constituents having gained over 8 country garden services holdings company limited and cspc pharmaceutical group limited were the only losers having shed over 2 and 15 respectively global news us futures traded in the red on wednesday morning asia session the dow jones futures were down 049 while the nasdaq futures lost 053 the sp 500 futures were down 052 the dow jones rallied over 1500 points over the last two sessions elsewhere in asia australia’s asx 200 was up 159 japan’s nikkei 225 gained 012 while chinese markets remained closed for trading south korea’s kospi was down 002 read next us stocks open higher as dow jumps 550 points