HONG KONG: Hong Kong stocks rose for a fourth straight session on Tuesday, helped by hopes of more stimulus to arrest cooling growth on the mainland and the island city and signs of progress in Sino-US trade talks.

The Hang Seng index rose 0.5%, to 27,683.40, while the China Enterprises Index gained 0.6%, to 10,877.63.

Both indexes gained for the fourth day in a row.

About 1.75 billion Hang Seng index shares were traded, roughly 123.1% of the market's 30-day moving average of 1.42 billion shares a day. The volume traded in the previous trading session was 1.78 billion.

China's central bank cut the interest rate on its one-year medium-term lending facility loans on Tuesday for the first time since early 2016, as policymakers work to prop up a slowing economy hit by weaker demand at home and abroad.-Reuters