HONG KONG: Hong Kong is set to record its first budget deficit in 15 years, the city’s finance chief warned on Monday, as the business hub reels from the twin shocks of the trade war and seething democracy protests.
In the latest grim assessment for the city, Financial Secretary Paul Chan told lawmakers that the economy was set to contract 1.3 percent in 2019, hitting the city’s usually bulging coffers.
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