HONG KONG—Sunday morning (March 29, 2015) at the Cathay Pacific/HSBC Hong Kong Sevens begins gently. The crowd is quiet and still dreamy from festivities the night before. The South Stand barely a quarter full.

“It means that fixed asset investment has slowed down for a further step,” said Qu Hongbin, chief China economist and co-head of Asia Economics at HSBC, who gave an analysis on Weibo. 

HSBC compared the total value of residential housing to total GDP and found that China has surpassed the level Japan saw before its stock and real estate markets collapsed in 1990.

The London-based banks HSBC and Standard Chartered have been forced to shut bank branches in Hong Kong as the territory's political unrest spills into the financial markets. 

Here’s the banks that are open or closed, and remember to check hours before going: Bank of America - Closed Wells Fargo - Open Chase - Open Citibank - Closed US Bank - Closed Capital One - Closed TD Bank - Open HSBC - Closed PNC Bank - Closed, except

HSBC: Closes at 3 p.m. on New Year's Eve but closed New Year's Day. Open Jan. 2. PNC Bank: Closes at 4 p.m. on New Year's Eve but closed New Year's Day. Open Jan. 2. SunTrust: Closed on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.

According to HSBC, the Chinese regime understands this problem. The analysts said it is trying to reduce excess investment without harming growth.

Being uncomfortable with holding purely financial gold in the form of futures and Exchange-traded Funds, University of Texas actually took delivery of the gold bars in 2011 and warehoused it with HSBC Bank in New York.  

In winning last week's WGC-HSBC Champions event in Shanghai the Bubba act showed legs in winning a significant event internationally for the first time and quite possibly providing a road map for what lies ahead in 2015. 

Japan wrapped up their final match of the HSBC Asia Five Nations 2013 series with another top performance, beating the United Arab Emirates (UAE) 93-3 at the Sevens Stadium, Dubai, last Friday May 10.

Round 7 of the HSBC World Series in Japan on April 4-5, provided upsets and hope, for the teams going on to the final events in May. (Glasgow, 9th-10th, and London 16th-17th). Fiji left Hong Kong victorious.

CHINA FACTORIES: In other trading on Tuesday, shares in Shanghai made gains after a HSBC report on manufacturing showed a contraction for the first time in seven months.

Analysts from HSBC call the restructuring "a (small) step in the right direction." They say it will save 2 percent of total costs and increase 2014 earnings per share by 6 percent.

Stopping the Kiwi juggernaut must have given South Africa immense satisfaction particularly after South Africa tailed off rather badly towards the end of the 2013-14 HSBC International Sevens.

Established in 2009, HSBC Bank (Taiwan) Limited operates through the locally incorporated entity. As one of the world's largest banking and financing groups, the HSBC Group has branches and offices in 87 nations.

If we're looking for ways the global banks can rise to the ethical challenge highlighted by the leaked files from banking giant HSBC, we could do worse than look at one of the few institutions to emerge from the financial crisis with any credit.

On Christmas Eve, a number of banks will be open, including U.S Bank, Capitol One, HSBC, and TD Bank.

Hong Kong lost their HSBC Asia Sevens crown to a strong Japan team in the Final of the Singapore Sevens last Sunday Nov 10.

China’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is more than $1 trillion less than published because baseline Chinese economic data on housing is manipulated and unreliable, says Christopher Balding, a professor at China's HSBC School of Business in Shenzhen. 

On Christmas Eve, a number of banks will be open, including U.S Bank, Capitol One, HSBC, and TD Bank. No major banks are open Christmas.

A French court found him guilty last May of defrauding La Banque Postale, LCL bank and HSBC, along with Thomson and Accenture, out of 6.1 million euros, and attempting to extract over 70 million euros from at least 33 others.

Christopher Balding is an associate professor of business and economics at the HSBC Business School in Shenzhen.

Vaxevanis, an investigative journalist, is in proverbial legal hot water after publishing the names of 2,059 Greek citizens with deposits in the Swiss HSBC bank in HOT DOC magazine.

The game at HSBC Arena in Rio de Janeiro is slated to start at 5 p.m. EDT (6 p.m. BRT). The game will be broadcast on ESPNews and STO. Live streaming will be available through Watch ESPN.

The HSBC deal will add around $30 billion in assets to Capital One, which is one of the only banks currently on a growth binge.

Now, unfortunately for the world, the Goldman Sachs, the JPMorgans, the Deutsche Banks, the HSBCs, basically, they're not concerned about that. They're just looking for the next percentage they can get on a deal.

This week six of the currency-dealers being investigated – including JP Morgan, Citigroup and HSBC – agreed to pay a total of US$4.3 billion to regulators in the US, UK and Switzerland to resolve the allegations.

HSBC: Closes at 3 p.m. on New Year's Eve but closed New Year's Day. Open Jan. 2. PNC Bank: Closes at 4 p.m. on New Year's Eve but closed New Year's Day. Open Jan. 2. SunTrust: Closed on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.

HSBC compared the total value of residential housing to total GDP and found that China has surpassed the level Japan saw before its stock and real estate markets collapsed in 1990.

From the end of last year to the first half of this year, Avon, Motorola, IBM, HSBC Life Insurance Company, Hewlett Packard, and Siemens all cut staff, while domestic Chinese companies like Zoomlion Heavy Industry and Sany Group, both heavyweights in