How Alibaba overcame Beijing’s crackdown to become an AI giant

On a cold November evening in Shanghai in 2020, the world’s largest IPO was abruptly canceled by Chinese regulators. It was Ant Group, the fintech affiliate of tech giant Alibaba. The company’s founder Jack Ma, one of China’s most famous billionaires, was under scrutiny for comments seemingly criticising the country’s financial regulators.   What followed was four years of…

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Which tail is wagging the market dog?

What a week for markets. Global stocks posted their worst week since April as the heat around AI stocks began to burn. On Thursday, the Nasdaq marked its wildest swing from green to red since President Donald Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ shocked equities back in April. And it reverberated around the world, with the Stoxx 600…

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