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News that China is investigating the e-commerce giant over antitrust issues has spilled over to shares of SoftBank Group.

Text size As the year draws to a close, global investors face increasing risks related to China, even as the country offers long-term opportunities. No one got a harsher reminder of that fact this past week than Jack Ma, the billionaire founder of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding (ticker: BABA), as China’s government decided on Christmas Eve to crack down on the sprawling and hugely successful business. Beijing launched an antitrust investigation into Alibaba, whi...

Crude oil has fallen 0.8% to $47.76 a barrel after gaining more than 2% on Wednesday. Thursday was light in terms of political developments and there is no economic data scheduled to be released. Still, investors are eyeing the president’s actions regarding the $900 billion stimulus bill. The package is aimed at keeping the economic recovery alive as Covid-19 vaccines have yet to be widely distributed. President Trump could veto the bill, or just choose not to sign. If he makes no decision to...

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Order Reprints Print Article With just a few days left in 2020—thankfully—it’s fair to say that it’s been a wild ride, for the market and the world. Yet some retailers thrived in the chaos. Here are the five best-performing retail stocks with a market value of more than $1 billion in the U.S. this year, through Wednesday’s close. 1. Overstock.com (ticker: OSTK) stock took the crown, with a 746% gain this year, blowing past the competition, all of which gained less than 200%...

By Craig Mellow Order Reprints NIO EP9 Courtesy of NIO You think Tesla (ticker: TSLA) stock had a good year? Shares in Elon Musk’s electric-car dynamo jumped a mere 670% during 2020. Chinese competitor Nio (NIO) posted an 11-fold increase.  EVs aren’t the only sector where emerging market stars left U.S. names in the dust. Amazon.com’s (AMZN) 75% advance lagged Latin American e-commerce sensation MercadoLibre’s (MELI) 200%. Southeast Asian online marketplace Sea (...

Chinese regulators on Thursday announced an anti-monopoly investigation of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, stepping up official efforts to tighten control over Chinas fast-growing tech industries. The market regulator said it was looking into Alibabas policy of choose one of two, which requires its business partners to avoid dealing with competitors. The one-sentence statement gave no details of possible penalties or a timeline to announce a result. Chinese leaders said earlier an economic p...

Human Rights Some of the first China-related actions next year could be related to human rights front, including China’s treatment of Uighurs in Xinjiang and China’s crackdowns on Hong Kong. Among the first measures could be passage of the Uyghur Forced Labor Protection Act, which has already passed the House and awaits a vote in the Senate. The legislation could impact everything imported into the U.S. that is made in Xinjiang or in facilities with so-called pairing agreements where Uyghur...

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