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Monday, September 15, 2014

Alibaba Said to Plan Boosting IPO Price Amid Heavy Interest - Bloomberg

Alibaba Said to Plan Boosting IPO Price Amid Heavy Interest - Bloomberg At $70, Alibaba’s sale would raise $22.4 billion, surpassing Agricultural Bank of China Ltd.’s $22.1 billion offering in 2010 as the biggest ever. Alibaba’s decision came even as billionaire founder Jack Ma told prospective investors today at Hong Kong’s Ritz-Carlton hotel he won’t price the IPO too aggressively, according to two people who attended the meeting. Ma said the company tried to fairly price the November 2007 sale of its business-to-business marketplace Alibaba.com Ltd., which almost tripled on its Hong Kong debut, the people said.http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-15/alibaba-said-to-plan-boosting-ipo-amid-heavy-investor-interest.html?utm_source=The+Sinocism+China+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a50b249e75-The_Sinocism_China_Newsletter_09_15_14&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_171f237867-a50b249e75-29615013&mc_cid=a50b249e75&mc_eid=5935182a65
Related: Chinese Gripe at Being Left Out of Alibaba’s IPO - Bloomberg “I’m a little confused about why you can’t invest in a Chinese company if you’re Chinese,” said Zhou, clad in gray shorts as she passes time in front of the digital stock ticker at a local branch of Guotai Junan Securities Co. in Shanghai. Though Chinese consumers have driven Alibaba’s financial success, they’ll largely be left out of the company’s stock offering. Mainland investors can’t purchase overseas equities directly due to government restrictions and only the wealthiest can buy them indirectly through qualified investor programs.http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-14/chinese-gripe-at-being-left-out-of-alibaba-s-21-billion-ipo.html?utm_source=The+Sinocism+China+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a50b249e75-The_Sinocism_China_Newsletter_09_15_14&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_171f237867-a50b249e75-29615013&mc_cid=a50b249e75&mc_eid=5935182a65
Related: 中国互联网公司出走海外 A股市场为啥留不住?--财经--人民网 Monday's People's daily runs long piece from Xinhua on why Chinese Internet companies list overseas, not on A share market..as people are wondering why shares of a national champion like Alibaba can't be bought by most Chinese http://finance.people.com.cn/stock/n/2014/0915/c67815-25660739.html?utm_source=The+Sinocism+China+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a50b249e75-The_Sinocism_China_Newsletter_09_15_14&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_171f237867-a50b249e75-29615013&mc_cid=a50b249e75&mc_eid=5935182a65

Related: Alibaba Asia Roadshow Begins; Jack Ma Says Company to Expand Aggressively in U.S. - WSJ Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. plans to expand aggressively in the U.S. and European markets following its listing, its executive chairman said Monday  //  While US Internet giants are effectively blocked from the China market...don't be surprised to start seeing the big US firms begin to make real noise on Capitol Hill. I think some have held off in hopes that they still had a shot in China http://online.wsj.com/articles/alibaba-asia-roadshow-begins-jack-ma-says-company-to-expand-aggressively-in-u-s-1410765839?utm_source=The+Sinocism+China+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a50b249e75-The_Sinocism_China_Newsletter_09_15_14&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_171f237867-a50b249e75-29615013&mc_cid=a50b249e75&mc_eid=5935182a65
Alibaba's Link to Elite Military Family Is Etched in Stone - NYTimes.com Carved in an ancestral tablet that records the living as well as the dead is the name of Zhang Zhen, the family patriarch, who turns 100 next month and was one of the highest-ranking generals in the People’s Liberation Army. Below are his sons. One of them has the job of making sure the soldiers controlling China’s nuclear weapons stay loyal to the Communist Party. Another, Zhang Lianyang, was a general before venturing into business and is listed along with his wife, Chen Xiaoying. The couple appears elsewhere together: on the corporate rolls of Citic 21CN, the telemarketing and pharmaceutical data business now controlled by the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group and Yunfeng Capital, a private equity company owned in part by Alibaba’s chairman, Jack Ma. Ms. Chen is Citic 21CN’s executive vice chairwoman, and Mr. Zhang was a director through April. http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/alibabas-link-to-elite-military-family-is-etched-in-stone/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_php=true&_type=blogs&smid=tw-dealbook&seid=auto&_r=1&utm_source=The+Sinocism+China+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a50b249e75-The_Sinocism_China_Newsletter_09_15_14&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_171f237867-a50b249e75-29615013&mc_cid=a50b249e75&mc_eid=5935182a65&

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