On October 2, STANCHART fell 4.91% in regular trading, trading at 232.4 HKD/share, with turnover of 19.56 million HKD. The decline follows a broad selloff in global banking stocks triggered by surging oil prices and spiking bond yields.

On October 1, escalating Middle East tensions drove Brent crude to the $100 per barrel mark, reaching as high as $100.55, as investors grew concerned over stalled US-Iran negotiations and Saudi pipeline disruptions. The oil price spike intensified inflation fears, pushing the 10-year US Treasury yield to 5.342%, its highest level since 2002. European bank stocks slumped in the prior session, with HSBC falling over 3%, Standard Chartered declining nearly 3%, and peers including BNP Paribas and Deutsche Bank dropping over 2.6%. UK-listed bank stocks saw even steeper losses, with NatWest down 5.3% and HSBC down 4.4%.

The selling pressure carried into the Hong Kong session, with the Diversified Banks sector broadly weak. HSBC HOLDINGS fell 5.19%, CCB dropped 2.14%, BANK OF CHINA declined 1.89%, ICBC lost 1.82%, and BOC HONG KONG slipped 1.82%. STANCHART has been conducting steady share buybacks throughout September, repurchasing roughly 350,000 to 370,000 shares daily at an average cost of approximately 8 million GBP per day.

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