History
The Hang Seng Index was created by Hong Kong banker Stanley Kwan and debuted on November 24, 1969.
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“It’s not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)
“The whole history of civilisation is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)
“To history therefore I must refer for answer, in which it would be an unhappy passage indeed, which should shew by what fatal indulgence of subordinate views and passions, a contest for an atom had defeated well founded prospects of giving liberty to half the globe.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)