HSI Rises by 175 Points; XIAOMI-W Jumps Over 4%; Robot Concept Under Discussion
Market Performance: The Hong Kong stock market saw positive movement with the HSI closing up 175 points (0.7%) at 25,935, driven by increasing expectations for a Federal Reserve rate cut, while total market turnover reached HK$179.306 billion.
Tech Sector Gains: Major tech stocks like BABA, TENCENT, and JD-SW experienced modest gains, while stocks such as MEITUAN and BILIBILI saw more significant increases of over 2%, reflecting a strong performance in the tech sector.
Robotics Industry Boost: Stocks related to the robotics industry surged following reports of a US initiative to support the sector, with companies like SANHUA and HESAI-W seeing gains between 6.7% and 7.9%.
Automotive Sector Adjustments: Over 20 cities in mainland China have suspended or adjusted car trade-in subsidies, impacting automakers like BYD and GEELY, which still managed to see slight increases in their stock prices.
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AI Tool Launch: Anthropic introduced a new tool for corporate in-house counsel that automates legal tasks like contract review and NDA classification, impacting the SaaS and software sectors.
Stock Market Performance: Several Hong Kong stocks experienced significant declines, with KINGDEE INT'L dropping 14.5% and MEITU falling nearly 10%.
Short Selling Activity: High short selling ratios were noted across various companies, including MEITU and CHINASOFT INT'L, indicating bearish market sentiment.
AI IPOs Decline: Newly listed AI companies like MINIMAX-WP and KNOWLEDGE ATLAS also saw their stock prices decrease, reflecting a broader trend in the market.
Stock Performance: SENSETIME-W (00020.HK) experienced a decline of 1.992%, with short selling amounting to $124.32M and a ratio of 9.644%.
Model Launch: The company announced the open-sourcing of its multimodal autonomous reasoning model, SenseNova-MARS, in both 8B and 32B versions.
Model Capabilities: SenseNova-MARS is the first open-source Agentic VLM that supports dynamic video reasoning and image-text retrieval, capable of autonomous planning and handling complex tasks.
Benchmark Performance: In core benchmarks for multimodal search and reasoning, SenseNova-MARS achieved an average score of 69.74, outperforming competitors Gemini-3-Pro and GPT-5.2.

Market Performance: The HSI rose by 598 points (2.2%) to 27,725, with significant gains in the HSCEI and HSTECH, while total market turnover reached HKD196.327 billion.
Financial Stocks Surge: Major financial stocks like HSBC, BOC Hong Kong, and Standard Chartered saw increases of 2.1% to 2.9%, contributing to a positive trend in the financial sector.
Property and Resource Stocks Rally: Hong Kong developers and Chinese developers experienced substantial gains, with some stocks like China Jinmao and Greentown China rising by over 6%, while resource stocks also saw significant increases.
Tech and AI Stocks Growth: Tech stocks such as Tencent and JD-SW gained between 1.5% and 2.4%, while AI-related stocks like SenseTime and Unisound saw notable increases, with Unisound jumping by 38.2%.

Market Performance: The Hong Kong stock market saw a rebound with the HSI rising 0.4% to 26,585, driven by the US-Europe dispute over Greenland and a total market turnover of HKD250.451 billion.
AI and Tech Stocks Surge: The launch of the new DeepSeek model, MODEL1, boosted AI and chip-related stocks, with notable gains from companies like SENSETIME-W and INSILICO, while some stocks like UNISOUND experienced declines.
Chinese Exports Growth: China's exports in December increased by 6.6% year-on-year, surpassing the previous value of 5.9% and exceeding forecasts of 3%.
Mixed Performance Among Major Tech Firms: BIDU-SW launched a new AI feature and saw a 3.3% stock increase, while other tech giants like TENCENT and JD-SW had modest gains, and NTES-S faced a significant decline of 3.7%.

Company Outlook: Goldman Sachs is optimistic about SENSETIME-W's expansion into multi-modal foundational models, which could improve cost-to-performance ratios and increase application opportunities.
AI Development: SenseTime's self-developed AI foundational model, SenseNova, and its AI infrastructure are key to its growth as a leading generative AI software company.
Revenue Growth: The broker anticipates that SenseTime's generative AI revenue will thrive due to its extensive product offerings and tailored solutions for specific industries.
Investment Rating: Goldman Sachs maintains a Buy rating for SENSETIME-W, setting a target price of HKD3.53.

Market Performance: The HSI rose by 239 points (0.9%) to close at 26,848, with the HSCEI and HSTECH also showing gains, while total market turnover reached HKD315.192 billion.
Technology Sector Highlights: Notable gains were seen in BABA-W (+3.6%) and ALI HEALTH (+2.8%), while some AI stocks like SENSETIME-W and WEIMOB INC experienced declines of 4.9% and 4.5%, respectively.
Chip Stocks Movement: Chip stocks faced losses, with BIREN TECH and ILUVATAR COREX dropping 7.7% and 8.9%, while ASMPT and COWELL saw gains of 3.6% and 8.1%.
Automotive Sector Developments: Supported by a new tariff deal between China and the EU, BYD COMPANY and other car manufacturers like GWMOTOR and XPENG-W saw increases, while XIAOMI-W declined by 2%.






