CL Causeway Bay learned tonight how fast an ordinary evening turns: fire tore through a Hennessy Road building, and sixty residents were on the street before anyone had finished dinner. No injuries. That's the only number worth reading twice. Insurers and inspectors can take the rest at their leisure.-- CL

MB Washington ran an economic offensive against Iran, a tariff threat against Canada, and the largest visa purge in memory, three fronts, one logic: certainty projected loudest where the policy is least settled. Closer to home, the monetary authority insists nothing is wrong, twice this week, in writing. Institutions rarely repeat themselves when they mean it.-- MB