hong kong stocks fell on thursday with the hang seng index losing 123 in opening trade chinas factory activity shrank for the first time in three months in august the caixinmarkit manufacturing purchasing managers index pmi fell to 495 in august against 504 in july reported reuters shares of meituan nio and xpeng fell over 2 each macro news united nations human rights commissioner michelle bachelet has said china has committed “serious human rights violations” against uyghur muslims in xinjiang province which may constitute crimes against humanity reported the guardian china is battling its broadest exposure to covid19 since february 2021 with all 31 mainland provinces having witnessed at least one local covid case over the past ten days reported bloomberg hong kong’s retail sales rose 41 in july compared to a year ago snapping two months of decline reported bloomberg company news alibaba’s lazada group is getting ready for its maiden foray into europe to take on rivals such as amazoncom inc amzn and zalando se zlndy reported bloomberg chinese tech giant tencent holdings has set a soft target of divesting close to rmb 100 billion 145 billion of its 88 billion listed equity portfolio this year reported the financial times top gainers and losers meituan and wuxi biologics cayman inc were the top losers on hang seng while techtronic industries co ltd and hengan international group co ltd were the top gainers in opening trade global news us futures traded in the red on thursday morning asia session the dow jones futures were down 043 while the nasdaq futures lost 112 the sp 500 futures shed 0686 elsewhere in asia australia’s asx 200 lost 195 japan’s nikkei 225 was down 166 while china’s shanghai composite index was trading flat south korea’s kospi shed 168