Hong Kong shares rise sharply ahead of Lunar New Year holiday

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Sony's ninth weekend of its durable action-comedy "Jumanji: Welcome to Jungle" finished fourth with $10 million at 2,800 venues. The 62-day domestic total will hit almost $380 million, just behind 2005's "Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith" for 32nd spot on the all-time list. "Black Panther" has demolished the record for the largest Presidents Day weekend, blowing past "Deadpool's" 2016 mark of $152 million. Overall North American moviegoing for the four-day period should hit $300 million -- far above the $278 million mark in 2016, according to comScore. Gold medallist Ted-Jan Bloemen of Canada celebrates with the national flag as Sven Kramer of The Netherlands rides behind him after the men's 10,000 meters speedskating - http://News.Sky.com/search?term=meters%20speedskating race at the Gangneung Oval at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Gangneung, South Korea, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2018. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda) For the thrill seekers, there is women's freestyle skiing to watch. The slopestyle finals start at 11 p.m. Each skier will have three runs down a course of jumps and rails, performing tricks to rack up points. Judging is subjective, with a team of judges looking at height, difficulty, variety and execution. The aerials finals start at 6 a.m. Watch for the women to launch themselves off large jumps, perform a seemingly impossible series of flips and rotations and hopefully land on their skis. Scoring is based on a complex formula that includes takeoff, form and landing. Watch how the women extend their bodies on takeoff to get more height. The women's super-G will go at 9 p.m. but without U.S. star Mikaela Shiffrin. After suggesting she might compete in all five events in Pyeongchang, the gold medal winner pulled out, citing the compressed schedule for alpine racing. High winds pushed back early races and forced cancellations. Like the downhill, the super-G is considered a speed race because the gates are spaced far enough apart for the skier to really pick up speed. Watch for the skiers to carve turns around gates of two poles and a flag. It is the distance between gates - and subsequent breakneck speeds - that distinguish this event from the more technical slalom and giant slalom. The FBI received a tip last month that the man now charged in the school shooting had a "desire to kill" and access to guns and could be plotting an attack. But the agency said Friday that agents failed to investigate. At 10:10 p.m., the women will see a playoff quarterfinal between the Russians and Switzerland. The winner of that match will face the defending champions Canada . Men's preliminary rounds continue with the Russians playing Slovenia at 2:40 a.m. and two games at 7:10 a.m.: Finland against Norway and Sweden against Germany. At 10:10 p.m., Canada faces the Czech Republic. Trump viewed Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein's declaration that the indictment doesn't show that any American knowingly participated as proof of his innocence and is deeply frustrated that the media are still suggesting that his campaign may have colluded with Russian officials, according to a person who has spoken to the president in the last 24 hours but is not authorized to publicly discuss private conversations. The film's estimated three-day gross of $192 million is the highest debut ever for a February film and the fifth highest of all time. Combined with an estimated international debut of $169 million from 69 percent of the international market, the estimated global debut stands at $361 million through Sunday. "This is proof that the big screen experience may arguably be the most powerful platform of change in our society," said Paul Dergarabedian," senior media analyst with comScore. "The emotional, communal, immersive and bigger than life theatrical experience has an impact that virtually no other medium can match." Trump tweeted about the nation's "heavy heart" in the wake of the shooting in Parkland and noted the "incredible people" he met on his visit to the community. But he also sought to use the shooting to criticize the nation's leading law enforcement agency. WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - President Donald Trump spent the holiday weekend hunkered down at his Florida estate, watching cable television news, grousing to club members and advisers and fuming over the investigation of Russian election meddling. In a marathon series of furious tweets from Mar-a-Lago, Trump vented about Russia, raging at the FBI for what he perceived to be a fixation on the Russia investigation at the cost of failing to deter the attack on a Florida high school. He made little mention of the nearby school shooting victims and the escalating gun control debate. Trump was last seen publicly Friday night when he visited the nearby Florida community reeling from a school shooting that left 17 dead and gave rise to a student-led push for more gun control. White House aides advised the president against golfing so soon after the tragedy. Instead, he fired off tweets Saturday and Sunday and met with House Speaker Paul Ryan Sunday afternoon.Fox's ninth weekend of "The Greatest Showman" continued to show remarkable traction in sixth with a projected $6.3 million at 1,936 locations, which will lift the 62-day total to $155 million for the Hugh Jackman musical. Sony's second weekend of "Peter Rabbit" should bring in $22.5 million from 3,275 domestic locations for the four-day weekend, yielding an 11-day domestic total of $53 million. The film stars the voice of James Corden as the titular rabbit, along with Margot Robbie, Elizabeth Debicki, and Daisy Ridley as Peter's sisters. Domhnall Gleeson stars as the heir to Mr. McGregor's property, with Rose Byrne as the kindly neighbor Bea. MELBOURNE, Feb 19 (Reuters) - London metals started the week lower on Monday as a resurgent dollar dragged down prices from one-month highs hit the session before and the Lunar New Year holidays reduced liquidity. FUNDAMENTALS * COPPER: London Metal Exchange copper had slipped by 0.6 percent to $7,189 a tonne by 0104 GMT, erasing small gains from the previous session when prices hit the highest since Jan. 15 at $7,253. Volumes were exceptionally light across the complex with less than 200 lots of turnover. "I know we'd signed up to do a reality TV show - (but) for that raw moment (to be filmed)… (I said) if you're serious about this we can follow the reality without having strangers in the room for that actual moment." The pound is also up 10% year-on-year against the New Zealand dollar, giving the equivalent of an extra £46 on a £500 exchange compared with a year ago and up 9% or the equivalent of £41 on a £500 exchange against the Australian dollar. Local government official Rowen Aguirre conceded that inspectors had often found cases of resort violations concerning waste water discharge and expanding into "no-build" zones, but expressed optimism that the problems could be resolved. Aluminium spreads have come under the most pressure since August, widening to a $10 premium for cash over benchmark material as the major contract nears expiry, which is likely to trigger exchange deliveries. CMAL0-3> * OTHER METALS: Other metals were flat to lower, led by LME nickel, which fell 1.2 percent after posting a 7 percent rally last week. Initially pleased with the Justice Department's statement, Trump has since griped that Rosenstein did not go far enough in declaring that he was cleared of wrongdoing, and grew angry when his national security adviser, H.R. McMaster, gave credence to the notion that Russia's meddling affected the election, the person said. The second weekend of Universal's "Fifty Shades Freed" follows in third with $18 million from 3,768 locations for the Friday through Monday period. The erotic romance stars Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson as Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele -- now Mrs. Grey. Its Friday through Sunday total ($16 million) marks a 57 percent decline from its opening weekend. The film has earned $161 million worldwide in its first eight days. Scores of holiday resorts on the Philippines' famous white-sand island Boracay have been given two months to clean up or face closure, officials said Wednesday, after President Rodrigo Duterte warned tourists were swimming in waters polluted by faeces. On Twitter, Trump stressed that the Russian effort began before he declared his candidacy and asserted that the Obama administration bears some blame for it. He also insisted he never denied that the Kremlin interfered in the 2016 U.S. campaign, although in fact he has frequently challenged the veracity of the evidence. "We have a quite simple life. I feed the dogs in the morning, clean the kennel, train the dogs, feed them again, clean again, and train again," said Chang, as the dogs carried out a training session, attacking a guard in a protective padded suit. LOS ANGELES, Feb 18 (Variety.com) - Disney-Marvel's "Black Panther" is heading for a super-heroic $218 million debut over the four-day President's Day weekend at 4,020 North American locations, estimates showed Sunday. On Monday, 17 Washington students plan a "lie-in" by the White House to advocate for tougher gun laws. Students who survived the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland are planning a march on Washington next month to pressure politicians to take action on gun violence. That number means that "Black Panther," starring Chadwick Boseman and directed by Ryan Coogler, has doubled its original tracking in less than a month. The film, which carries an estimated $200 million production cost, had been tracking to bring in between an impressive $100 and $120 million when first estimates emerged on Jan. 25. Since then, "Black Panther" has become a must-see movie for many moviegoers, underlined when Thursday previews brought in $25.2 million, the largest Thursday night preview gross for a February opener and the second-largest preview gross for a Marvel film. FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2017 file photo, Tonga's Pita Taufatofua competes in the men's cross country sprint qualification at the 2017 Nordic Skiing World Championships in Lahti, Finland. Taufatofua joked that he has two primary goals when he competes in his first Olympic event on Friday, Feb. 16, 2018, don't hit a tree and finish before they turn the lights off. The medal podium is far from the mind of the "shirtless" Tongan, who qualified for the event despite having spent less than 12 weeks of his life on snow. He said his long-term goal at the Pyeongchang Games is to inspire others from the South Pacific to give the Olympics a shot. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)"There is no difference if it's Chinese New Year or not. Burglars don't have holidays, we don't either," said Chang Fumao, 59, the head of the canine patrol, who has trained the dogs for more than 30 years. "Above all this rhetoric here, www.mysbobet.com - https://www.mysbobet.com/ again, we're losing sight of, what is it we're going to do about the threat posed by the Russians? And he never - he never talks about that," said Clapper. "It's all about himself, collusion or not." Boseman portrays King T'Challa, ruler of Wakanda, a technologically advanced society, who conflicts with Michael B. Jordan's Eric Killmonger, who intends to take over the throne. Letitia Wright, Lupita Nyong'o, Angela Bassett, Danai Gurira, and Daniel Kaluuya also star. It's received an A+ CinemaScore, the only Marvel film to have done so besides 2012's "The Avengers." Another day at the oval, another chance for the Dutch to show their world domination in speedskating. They have won every speedskating gold medal in Pyeongchang except for the men's 10,000 meters , which was earned by Netherlands-born Canadian Ted-Jan Bloemen on Thursday. The women's 5,000 meters will start at 6 a.m. Clint Eastwood's second weekend of the thriller "The 15:17 to Paris" is set to take fifth, with $9.1 million from 3,042 locations for Warner Bros. The movie, starring the three men who stopped an attempted 2015 terrorist attack on a European train, is projected to have grossed nearly $27 million domestically in 11 days. * U.S. ECONOMY: U.S. homebuilding rose to a more than one-year high in January, boosted by strong increases in the construction of both single- and multi-family housing units, and further gains are likely with building permits surging to their highest since 2007. * NOBLE: Embattled commodities trader Noble Group Ltd said on Monday that it expects a total fourth-quarter 2017 loss of $1.73 billion to $1.93 billion, stemming largely from non-cash losses from its mark-to-market derivatives portfolio. * ALUMINIUM: LME aluminium eased 0.6 percent after it closed 2 percent higher on Friday, supported by tightening spreads. She said that Hughes had spoken to her for a few minutes on the phone to end their relationship, but that a few days later, they had to film for their TV programme, meaning that their first time meeting since the split would be caught on camera. The biggest cash bonus in the study was found to be for those heading for the Dominican Republic, whose peso has plunged 16.7% year-on-year against the pound, giving UK travellers nearly £72 worth of extra peso on a £500 currency transaction. The men's 15-kilometer freestyle event starts at 1 a.m. Racers start in 30-second intervals, and the one with the best overall time wins. Cross-country skiing uses two techniques, classic and freestyle. The freestyle is more similar to skating than the classic gliding. This event is dominated by Nordic skiers, but watch for the bare-chested Tongan ! The taekwondo athlete became internet famous for walking into the Rio Olympics opening ceremony without a shirt, greased up with coconut oil. He wore the same thing for the frigid opening in Pyeongchang. Just happy to be here, he has set a very personal definition of success in this event, which is "don't ski into a tree." He is expected to wear clothes, though. The film, from Disney-owned Marvel Studios, features a star-studded, almost entirely black cast led by Chadwick Boseman as the first non-white superhero to get his own stand-alone movie in the franchise. According to figures from industry tracker Exhibitor Relations, the highly-anticipated 18th entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe earned $192 million over Friday, Saturday and Sunday -- exceeding predictions of $170 million. * For the top stories in metals and other news, click or MARKETS NEWS * Asian shares ticked up, joining a global recovery for equity markets as sentiment improved gradually from a recent shakeout that stemmed from fears of creeping inflation and higher borrowing costs. DATA/EVENTS No major releases on Monday PRICES BASE METALS PRICES 0109 GMT Three month LME copper 7189 Most active ShFE copper 0 Three month LME aluminium 2195 Most active ShFE aluminium 0 Three month LME zinc 3564.5 Most active ShFE zinc 0 Three month LME lead 2605 Most active ShFE lead 0 Three month LME nickel 13745 Most active ShFE nickel 0 Three month LME tin 21750 Most active ShFE tin 0 (Reporting by Melanie Burton; Editing by Subhranshu Sahu) Mikaela Shiffrin, of the United States, talks to the media after her first run of the women's slalom at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Friday, Feb. 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) Amid a growing call for action on guns, the White House said Sunday the president will host a "listening session" with students and teachers this week, but offered no details on who would attend or what would be discussed. FILE - In this Feb. 9, 2018 file photo, United States' Nathan Chen performs in the men's single short program team event at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Gangneung, South Korea. Chen is offering condolences to families of the victims of the Florida school shooting that killed over a dozen people. Chen skated in the Pyeongchang Olympics team competition where the U.S. won bronze, and he's due to skate in the men's individual competition starting Friday, Feb. 16. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)The palace-turned-museum boasted 16.7 million ticket sales last year. Once home to China's emperors, it is now a trove of national treasures, including a 3,000-year-old bronze vase covered in intricate carvings and a 12th century five-metre-long painting of daily life in the Song Dynasty. Competition in curling is still going strong. In fact, curling is the only event that is played every day during the Olympics, which is a good thing because the sweeping, shouting, stone-throwing, crazy-pants-wearing teams become cult favorites every four years. The women play a round just after midnight. The men play at 6:05 a.m., when the U.S. men face Denmark and the Canadians face host South Korea. The U.S. women will face Russia at 7:05 p.m. Japan and Sweden are topping the standings for the women, while over on the men's side, Canada is continuing its curling domination, along with Sweden and Great Britain. This image released by Disney shows Chadwick Boseman in a scene from Marvel Studios' "Black Panther." The Walt Disney Co. estimated Saturday, Feb. 17, 2018, the Marvel Comics superhero movie earned $75.8 million domestically for its opening Friday, the eighth biggest day in industry history. (Matt Kennedy/Marvel Studios-Disney via AP) Holidaymakers visiting "dollar destinations" like St Lucia, Antigua, Barbados, Dubai and Oman as well as the United States can expect their pounds to stretch between 11.5% (Barbados) and 12% (St Lucia and Antigua) further than a year ago, according to the findings. * COPPER STOCKS: Comex copper stocks have doubled from this time last year to more than 225,000 tonnes. HG-STX-COMEX> LME stocks were also at nine-month highs, due to inflows earlier this month. MCUSTX-TOTAL>. SHFE copper stocks were at the highest since August. CU-STX-SGH> * ALUMINIUM DUTIES: U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross unveiled options on Friday for President Donald Trump to impose hefty steel and aluminium import restrictions ranging from global tariffs on all products from all countries to quotas based on previous exports to the United States. ** The top gainers among H-shares were People's Insurance Group of China Co Ltd up 4.46 percent, followed by China Construction Bank Corp gaining 4.32 percent and China Petroleum Editing by Kim Coghill)

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Hong Kong shares rise sharply ahead of Lunar New Year holiday

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