The Hong Kong stock market closed lower on Monday, 18 May 2015, on profit taking after Friday's 536 points rally on talks of upcoming launch of Shenzhen-HK Connect scheme. The Hang Seng Index ended down 231.03 points or 0.83% to 27,591.25, off an intra-day high of 27,792.44 and day low of 27,435.57. The Hang Seng China Enterprises Index, benchmark measure of performance of mainland China enterprises, dropped 0.6%, or 83.48 points, to 13926.28 points. Turnover reduced to HK$122.99 billion from HK$137.8 billion on Friday.
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