An 1,100% Stock Gain Is Hong Kong’s New Protest Rallying Cry
- Jimmy Lai supporters spur record jump in his company’s shares
- Lai, a prominent newspaper publisher, was arrested on Monday
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They’ve occupied Hong Kong’s central business district, marched by the hundreds of thousands through the city’s streets and endured tear gas and pepper spray in pitched battles with riot police.
Now Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protesters are wielding a new weapon: their stock-market trading accounts.