The Shanghai Stock Exchange's new Nasdaq-style technology board, the Star Market, launched yesterday morning with enormous gains for the first 25 companies to list. By the close, price gains ranged from 84% to 400% above their initial offering prices.

US negotiators led by trade representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin look set to fly to Beijing next week for the first face-to-face talks since President Xi and Donald Trump agreed to restart negotiations at the G20 summit last month.

A decision on whether Chinese telecoms firm Huawei should be excluded from the rollout of 5G mobile phone networks in the UK has been postponed. British Culture Secretary Jeremy Wright said the US ban on its companies from dealing with Huawei could have a potential impact on the future availability and reliability of Huawei's products.

President Trump has announced that a two-year agreement has been reached with Congress to raise America’s $22bn borrowing limit, which would remove the threat of a dangerous debt default in the coming months.

On today’s Money Talk we’re joined by Connie Bolland of Economic Research Analysis and Nitin Dialdas from Mandarin Capital. With the view from Japan is Naoyuki Yoshino of the Asian Development Bank Institute. After 8:30, we talk to Reeve Kwan, Co-Founder of Gogovan. We’ll also get an update on the outlook for the entertainment and media sector in Hong Kong and on the mainland with Wilson Chow at PwC.