Hong Kong stocks fell 105.62 points, or 0.49 percent, to close at 21,595.52 on Wednesday, after trading between 21,742.39 and 21,524.33.

Turnover moved up to 58.54 billion HK dollars from Tuesday's 49. 95 billion HK dollars.

China Enterprises Index went up 79.74 points, or 0.64 percent, to close at 12,431.81 points.

The commerce and industry sub-index was the sole gainer among the four major stock categories, edging up 0.41 percent. The finance plunged 1.13 percent, the utilities moved down 0.2 percent and properties fell 0.48 percent.

Blue-chips ended lower in general. Banking giant HSBC Holdings went 1.04 percent down to close at 90.8 HK dollars. Heavyweight China Mobile, by far the largest mobile carrier in the mainland, rose 0.75 percent to 80.9 HK dollars. HKEx, the sole exchange operator in Hong Kong, lost one percent, to 148 HK dollars.

Local properties also lost. Cheung Kong, the flagship of Hong Kong's richest man Li Ka-shing, edged 0.1 percent down to 100.7 HK dollars. SHK Properties fell 0.69 percent to 114.7 HK dollars. Henderson Land climbed up 1.95 percent to 52.3 HK dollars.

Mainland-based commercial lenders mostly went down. Bank of China fell 1.16 percent to close at 4.28 HK dollars. ICBC fell 0.82 percent to 6.06 HK dollars. CCB moved down 0.77 percent to 6.41HK dollars.

Chinese insurance shares generally finished lower. China Life moved down 1.52 percent to 35.6 HK dollars. Ping An fell 1.15 percent to 64.35 HK dollars. PICC P&C lost 0.69 percent to 5.73 HK dollars.

As for energy shares, PetroChina rose 0.11 percent to 9.39 HK dollars, off-shore oil producer CNOOC lost 0.18 percent to 10.82 HK dollars, while Sinopec Corp moved up 0.44 percent to 6.86 HK dollars. (7.8 HK dollars = 1 U.S. dollar)

Source: Xinhua