Hong Kong's star technology and Internet stocks fluctuated higher, with Tencent Holdings (00700.HK) rising by more than 3%, and stocks such as JD Health (06618.HK), Baidu (09888.HK), Tencent Music (01698.HK), and NetEase-S (09999.HK) following suit.

Australia's NAB business confidence index in May was -14, compared with the previous value of -24.

Australia's NAB business climate index in May was 3, compared with the previous value of 3.

Financial Times reports Apollo Global Management and Blackstone have agreed a $35bn private credit package to finance Anthropic’s growth plans. Proceeds will be used to help Anthropic purchase chips developed by Alphabet. The deal,led by the two private-equity firms, is among the largest private-credit financings to date and underscores investor willingness to fund AI-related data‑centre infrastructure and compute for firms including Anthropic,OpenAI and Meta. Apollo and Blackstone did not respond to requests for comment.

HSI opened on June 9 (Tuesday), down 105.13 points, or 0.43%, to 24551.93 points;Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Technology Index opened on June 9 (Tuesday), down 12.39 points, or 0.26%, to 4743.52 points ;The state-owned enterprise index opened down 27.8 points, or 0.33%, to 8313.56 points on June 9 (Tuesday);The red chip index opened down 21.48 points, or 0.5%, to 4313.91 points on June 9 (Tuesday).

When Hong Kong stocks opened, the Hang Seng Index opened down 0.43%, and the Hang Seng Technology Index opened down 0.26%; concepts such as AI applications, innovative drugs, chips, star technology networks, and new energy vehicle companies were among the top gainers; Kantelon (01912.HK) resumed trading and rose by more than 110%, and the company received a mandatory cash offer from Zhuangyan-Investment-International.