Usagi is expected to maintain a distance of more than 500km from the city and then turn towards Japan’s Ryukyu Islands

A typhoon is brewing over Hong Kong but for the first time in decades, it’s business as usual for the city’s $5.4 trillion stock market.

Hong Kong stocks hovered around a seven-week low while investors await a flurry of earnings cards from bellwether companies as the city’s financial markets opened for business under typhoon conditions for the first time.