FILE - In this Sept. 15, 2021, record photo, a antheral bicycles past an Evergrande caller lodging improvement successful Beijing. Shares successful troubled existent property developer China Evergrande Group and its spot absorption portion Evergrande Property Services person been suspended from trading successful Hong Kong. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

FILE - In this Sept. 15, 2021, record photo, a antheral bicycles past an Evergrande caller lodging improvement successful Beijing. Shares successful troubled existent property developer China Evergrande Group and its spot absorption portion Evergrande Property Services person been suspended from trading successful Hong Kong. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File) (Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

HONG KONG – Shares successful troubled existent property developer China Evergrande Group and its spot absorption portion Evergrande Property Services were suspended from trading Monday successful Hong Kong.

The companies' filings did not specify wherefore the shares were stopped from trading.

Cailian, a Chinese online quality work affiliated with the state-run paper Securities Times, said different developer, Hopson Development Holdings, was readying to get a bulk stock successful Evergrande Property Services Group.

Trading successful Hopson's shares besides was suspended Monday successful Hong Kong, “pending the merchandise of announcement(s) successful narration to a large transaction of the institution nether which the institution agreed to get the shares of a institution . . . listed connected the banal exchange," it said successful a filing.

Evergrande has been struggling to debar defaulting connected billions of dollars of debt. The institution owes billions to banks, customers and contractors and is facing a currency crunch.

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Its concern worsened aft the authorities tightened limits connected firm indebtedness levels.

The institution ran up billions of dollars successful indebtedness gathering flat complexes, malls and bureau towers implicit the years.

In August 2020, the authorities ordered tightened controls connected financing for China’s 12 biggest developers, forcing them to trim firm indebtedness loads that are seen arsenic a menace to the economy.

Evergrande has been selling disconnected assorted assets to effort to alleviate the problem.

Evergrande Group's shares person mislaid much than 80% of their worth this year.

Like Evergrande, Hopson, based successful Guangdong adjacent to Hong Kong, is 1 of China's biggest spot companies.

Jitters implicit a slowdown successful China's system and imaginable turmoil successful its captious spot manufacture person rattled satellite markets successful the past fewer weeks.

Hong Kong's benchmark Hang Seng scale dropped 2.2% Monday connected dense selling of existent property companies and banks.

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