Through communication there will be trust. and with trust it will be possible to discuss problems of mutual interest with more tolerance and more understanding.

In order to reach universal suffrage, we have to build trust.

We and our mainland compatriots are of the same blood. We share a common interest and destiny. We ride on the same boat.

The hard work over the past two years, of intensive and widespread consultation and of putting the proposals together, will be lost. Worse, the mutual trust we have taken pains to build between the central government and ourselves, the trust we need to take our democratization forward, will dissipate.

We trust our board of directors will make decisions in the best interest of our shareholders.

We are still seeing buying of interest-rate-sensitive stocks. Investors believe the U.S. economy is slowing more than they thought and the U.S. may now cut interest rates by more than 100 basis points next year, instead of just 75 basis points.