• Four traders from BGC Partners Inc., the New York-based brokerage headed by Howard Lutnick and part-owned by his Cantor Fitzgerald LP, turned up at Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests last night to grill more than 2,000 sausages for the hungry demonstrators.
  • Tonight they planned to return with more colleagues — and eight clients.
  • Daniel Shepherd, the firm’s head of Asia derivatives, said by phone that he wanted to help the protesters, who weren’t eating properly. He and three colleagues spent about HK$20,000 ($2,600) buying sausages and other supplies for the grill they took to the site in Admiralty district, he said.
  • Said he was acting in a personal capacity

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