{"id":439231,"date":"2026-10-02T07:00:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T00:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/reminder-hong-kong-reopens-as-mainland-china-markets-and-stock-connect-stay-shut-until-october-8-439231\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T07:00:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T00:00:05","slug":"reminder-hong-kong-reopens-as-mainland-china-markets-and-stock-connect-stay-shut-until-october-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/reminder-hong-kong-reopens-as-mainland-china-markets-and-stock-connect-stay-shut-until-october-8-439231\/","title":{"rendered":"Reminder: Hong Kong reopens as mainland China markets and Stock Connect stay shut until October 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Hong Kong&#8217;s stock market reopens on Friday, October 2, after closing on Thursday for National Day, but mainland China&#8217;s markets remain shut for the rest of the week-long holiday and will not resume trading until Thursday, October 8.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Hong Kong exchange trades at its usual hours on Friday, 09:30 to 12:00 and 13:00 to 16:00 local time, and again on October 5, 6 and 7. Those four sessions will run without Stock Connect, the program linking the mainland and Hong Kong stock markets. HKEX&#8217;s Stock Connect calendar shows Northbound and Southbound trading suspended from October 1 to 7, as the link only operates when both markets are open, with normal operation resuming on October 8.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">That leaves China-focused and dual-listed shares in Hong Kong trading without mainland participation, which may mean thinner, more offshore-driven liquidity.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges are closed for the full seven days. The Shanghai Composite ended Wednesday, the last session before the break, up circa 0.3% at around 3,840.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Futures and gold markets in Shanghai are also closed. The Shanghai Futures Exchange, the China Financial Futures Exchange and the Shanghai Gold Exchange reopen on October 8 and will stay shut on Saturday, October 10, a make-up working day for offices, since exchanges do not trade on weekends. The Shanghai Futures Exchange will resume night trading on the evening of October 8.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">With onshore markets closed, the offshore yuan carries price discovery with less depth than usual, and traders lose Chinese futures price signals for the week, as I noted in my <a href=\"https:\/\/investinglive.com\/news\/what-china-s-golden-week-closures-mean-for-the-yuan-futures-and-asian-liquidity\/\" rel=\"follow\">earlier piece<\/a>. Any news during the holiday will be priced offshore first, raising the risk of catch-up moves when mainland markets reopen on October 8. The scale of the People&#8217;s Bank of China&#8217;s liquidity operations around the holiday will also be watched for signs of how funding conditions look when markets return.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>                            This article was written by Eamonn Sheridan at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong&#8217;s stock market reopens on Friday, October 2, after closing on Thursday for National Day, but mainland China&#8217;s markets remain shut for the rest of the week-long holiday and will not&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}