Alibaba, Tencent, Other Chinese Stocks Are in Free Fall. It’s About Xi Jinping.

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Shares in Chinese companies were plunging on Monday as markets reacted to the consolidation of power by President Xi Jinping, after he was confirmed to a historic third term as leader of the world’s second-largest economy.



Alibaba


(ticker: BABA) tumbled 12% in U.S. premarket trading, with tech peer


JD.com


(JD) dropping 16%,


Tencent


(


TCEHY


) down 11%,


Pinduoduo


(PDD) falling 14%, and


Baidu


(BIDU) down 11%. Electric-vehicle maker


Nio


(NIO) shed 13%. Hong Kong’s


Hang Seng Index


closed 6.4% in the red, seeing its worst one-day rout since 2008.

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