Leung prompts jitters over dollar peg

HONG KONG

       
Antony Leung
Kam-chung

Is Antony Leung Kam-chung, Hong Kong’s financial secretary, a political neophyte who blundered badly into a territory sown with hairtrigger mines – or is he a smart operator who knows how to run a softening-up campaign? This is the question sending Hong Kong’s chattering classes into a frenzy and giving financial market jitters over the past few weeks.

What has caused the intense speculation are remarks by Leung about the pegging of the Hong Kong dollar to the US greenback.

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