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Wall Street Feels the Heat (and Thrill): Fed Cuts, Tariffs & Mega-Mergers Set NYSE Buzz

Stock Market Today 23.11.2025

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23 November 2025
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Hong Kong Stocks Today (Nov 10, 2025): Hang Seng Jumps 1.6% as China CPI Turns Positive; Pop Mart and CNOOC Lead Gains

HKEX Today: Hang Seng slips 0.7% as CNGR Advanced Material lists; Southbound flows favor Tracker Fund & Alibaba — November 17, 2025

Hong Kong — The Hong Kong Stock Exchange closed lower on Monday, November 17, 2025, as profit‑taking and regional geopolitics cooled risk appetite. The session also featured a closely watched debut by CNGR Advanced Material and a steady drumbeat of microstructure updates from the exchange, while Southbound investors concentrated buy orders in the city’s most‑traded ETFs and big‑cap tech. news.rthk.hk Battery materials group CNGR Advanced Material Co., Ltd. priced its Hong Kong H‑share IPO at HK$34.00 per share and commenced trading today on HKEX’s Main Board. HKEX’s allotment announcement confirmed the final offer price and indicated a public float market value above HK$3.54bn at pricing. HKEX’s newly listed securities roster shows the listing effective November 17, 2025. HKEXnews+1
17 November 2025
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Alibaba (BABA) Stock on 13 November 2025: Qwen AI App Revamp, Singles’ Day Signals and Big-Money Flows

Alibaba (BABA) Stock on 13 November 2025: Qwen AI App Revamp, Singles’ Day Signals and Big-Money Flows

For Alibaba Group Holding Limited, November 13, 2025 is all about artificial intelligence, Singles’ Day read‑throughs, and fresh institutional positioning as investors look ahead to the next earnings release later this month. As of November 13, 2025, Alibaba’s New York–listed American Depositary Shares are trading around $157.91, roughly where they closed on November 12. The ADRs have moved within a one‑day range of $156.20–$161.19 and a 52‑week range of $80.06–$192.67. Investing.com+1
13 November 2025
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Alibaba Stock Soars on AI Frenzy – Can the Rally Last?

Alibaba’s 2025 Comeback: AI Ambitions Fuel BABA Stock Rally – Will It Last?

Alibaba’s stock is capping off a strong week, with a notable move on October 17, 2025. The NYSE-listed BABA shares closed around $167 on Friday, recovering from early-session weakness. This roughly 3% intraday rebound came despite a sell-off in Hong Kong, where Alibaba’s secondary listing fell over 4% amid broad tech declines. Even with recent volatility, Alibaba’s U.S. stock remains near multi-year highs – up about 85–90% year-to-datets2.tech. By comparison, the NYSE Composite index is only up ~12% in 2025ts2.tech, underscoring Alibaba’s outsized rally. The stock’s momentum since spring carried it above key technical levels, and it now trades well above its 50- and 200-day moving averagests2.tech. Short-term indicators like RSI have flashed overbought, but pullbacks have been shallow so farts2.tech. What moved BABA on Oct. 17? Traders point to easing anxiety over U.S.-China trade headlines and dip-buying. Last week’s news of potential new U.S. tariffs had sparked a “tariff tantrum” sell-off in Chinese tech stocksts2.tech. But by Friday, sentiment stabilized. “Alibaba down, while China Life up” was the early story in Hong Kongts2.tech, yet U.S. investors quickly stepped in, seeing the drop as an opportunity. BABA opened near $162 and climbed throughout the day, suggesting confidence that recent geopolitical
17 October 2025
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Alibaba Stock Skyrockets on AI Breakthrough – Key Facts & Latest 2025 Update

Alibaba’s $53 Billion AI Blitz: Stock Soars on Nvidia Pact and Global Cloud Push

Alibaba’s latest pivot to artificial intelligence has ignited its stock and signaled to the market that the Chinese tech giant is “all in” on AI. At its annual Apsara Conference, CEO Eddie Wu underscored that AI industry growth “far exceeded our expectations”, with demand for AI infrastructure outpacing what Alibaba had anticipated reuters.com. In response, Wu announced Alibaba will boost its investment in AI beyond the hefty ¥380 billion three-year budget it set earlier this year reuters.com. While he didn’t put a new number on the commitment, the message was clear: Alibaba sees AI as a core priority alongside its e-commerce empire reuters.com, and it’s prepared to spend big to stay competitive. The market reacted swiftly. Alibaba’s Hong Kong–listed shares soared nearly 10% on the announcements, hitting their highest level in almost four years reuters.com. U.S.-listed shares of Alibaba similarly leapt in New York trading, as investors welcomed the company’s aggressive stance on AI after a period of relative stagnation. The rally has been fueled by optimism that Alibaba’s AI push can re-energize growth – a sentiment echoed by high-profile investors. Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest, for example, just reopened positions in Alibaba after a four-year hiatus, buying over $16 million
25 September 2025
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AI Stocks Skyrocket Globally as $100B Nvidia-OpenAI Deal and Alibaba’s Mega AI Push Ignite Market (Sept 23–24, 2025)

AI Stocks Skyrocket Globally as $100B Nvidia-OpenAI Deal and Alibaba’s Mega AI Push Ignite Market (Sept 23–24, 2025)

After a red-hot run of AI-driven gains, U.S. markets took a breather on September 23 as investors digested economic signals. The S&P 500 and tech-heavy Nasdaq pulled back after three straight record closes powered by AI enthusiasm reuters.com. Nvidia, fresh off a new record high the day prior, dipped 2.8% as traders took profits reuters.com. Other mega-cap tech names like Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple also ticked lower reuters.com. Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s cautious remarks about interest rates and stock valuations cooled sentiment, prompting some rotation out of richly valued tech shares. “With this being the third year of double-digit returns for the S&P 500, there needs to be another strong catalyst to move stocks materially higher. And right now, it is not clear what that catalyst can be,” observed Oliver Pursche of Wealthspire Advisors, noting signs of an economic slowdown tempering the rally reuters.com. Despite the one-day pullback, the broader backdrop remains a historic “everything rally” fueled in large part by AI. Traders have largely been betting that booming investment in artificial intelligence will continue to propel tech sector growth even as the economy softens. Gold prices hit fresh highs as some investors hedged risk, but overall market optimism stayed
24 September 2025
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Huawei’s AI Superchip Power Play Shakes Up Nvidia’s Throne

Huawei’s AI Superchip Power Play Shakes Up Nvidia’s Throne

Huawei’s latest moves mark its boldest bid yet to break free from foreign semiconductors and establish itself as a leader in artificial intelligence computing. At its annual Huawei Connect conference in Shanghai, the company outlined a sweeping long-term chip strategy, openly detailing plans that had been shrouded in secrecy since U.S. sanctions hit in 2019 reuters.com reuters.com. The headline announcement: Huawei will rapidly iterate its Ascend AI chips and accompanying systems, doubling computing power every year in an aggressive cadence aimed at catching up to global rivals reuters.com. Central to this strategy is Huawei’s Ascend AI processor lineup – its answer to Nvidia’s GPU chips reuters.com. The company revealed a roadmap for three new Ascend generations in the next three years: the Ascend 950, Ascend 960, and Ascend 970 reuters.com reuters.com. The Ascend 950 will even come in two specialized variants tuned for different AI tasks like recommendation inference versus training and decoding reuters.com reuters.com. Each new chip generation is expected to deliver a two-fold jump in performance and memory capacity over the previous, a leapfrog pace that Huawei says will keep it on the cutting edge reuters.com.
18 September 2025
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Alibaba’s AI Chip Coup: How a Blockbuster Deal Is Turbocharging China’s Tech Ambitions

Alibaba’s AI Chip Coup: How a Blockbuster Deal Is Turbocharging China’s Tech Ambitions

Alibaba’s foray into semiconductors is relatively recent but rapidly expanding. In 2018, the company established its chip design unit Pingtouge, also known as T-Head. By 2019, Alibaba unveiled its first in-house AI chip, the Hanguang 800, marking a milestone as Alibaba’s first-ever semiconductor product medium.com alibabacloud.com. Alibaba’s chip development is guided by a clear strategy: build competitive, homegrown silicon to power Alibaba’s cloud and AI services. Executives have framed this as core to the company’s future. After the U.S. imposed sweeping semiconductor export curbs in 2022, Alibaba’s leadership doubled down on developing an “indigenous solution” for advanced computing needs networkworld.com. The company views custom chips as vital for a “sustainable growth model” in the AI era, ensuring its cloud division isn’t hamstrung by geopolitics networkworld.com. Notably, company founder Jack Ma – who had retreated from Alibaba’s daily operations – has reportedly re-engaged in Alibaba’s strategy this year, with chip innovation being a key focus coinprofitnews.com coinprofitnews.com.
17 September 2025
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AI Stock Frenzy: Alibaba’s $50B Rally, OpenAI’s $500B Ambition & Global AI Deals (Sept 1–2, 2025)

AI Stock Frenzy: Alibaba’s $50B Rally, OpenAI’s $500B Ambition & Global AI Deals (Sept 1–2, 2025)

Alibaba Group sparked a market frenzy to kick off September, as its shares in Hong Kong leapt nearly 19% on Sept. 1 – the stock’s biggest single-day jump since 2022 tbsnews.net. The rally came after Alibaba’s latest earnings revealed better-than-expected results in its cloud computing unit, thanks in large part to booming demand for AI services. The company said surging interest in generative AI drove a “triple-digit” percentage increase in revenue from its AI-related offerings year-on-year reuters.com. In the April–June quarter, Alibaba’s Cloud segment grew sales 26% – an acceleration from the prior quarter that “beat market estimates”, per the firm’s report reuters.com. Alibaba’s net income also jumped 78% as cost efficiencies kicked in benzinga.com. Investors responded by piling into Alibaba’s stock on optimism that the tech behemoth is successfully pivoting into the AI era. The nearly 19% surge sent Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Tech Index up over 2%, with Alibaba alone adding an estimated $50 billion in value reuters.com. “Alibaba has effectively become an AI stock,” noted one Seeking Alpha commentator, pointing out the shares broke through long-held resistance on massive volume seekingalpha.com.
2 September 2025
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AI Stock Whiplash: Alibaba’s $50 Billion Surge, Nvidia’s Reality Check & More (Aug 31–Sep 1, 2025)

AI Stock Whiplash: Alibaba’s $50 Billion Surge, Nvidia’s Reality Check & More (Aug 31–Sep 1, 2025)

The final days of August saw a tug-of-war between AI-fueled optimism and growing caution among the market’s most valuable tech companies. Nowhere was this more evident than with Nvidia, the poster child of the AI boom. The GPU giant reported another quarter of blowout earnings, far exceeding analyst expectations. Demand for its AI chips has been so overwhelming that CEO Jensen Huang likened the current AI build-out to “a new industrial revolution” with customers “buying everything [we have] – the buzz is: everything sold out” reuters.com reuters.com. Yet Nvidia’s stock stumbled in the aftermath. Why? Investors zeroed in on management’s lukewarm Q3 revenue forecast, which, at Huang’s behest, excluded any future sales to China due to U.S. export uncertainties reuters.com. This cautious guidance – effectively bracing for zero China revenue – spooked the market, given China has historically been a major consumer of Nvidia’s chips. Shares of Nvidia fell ~2% the next day and were down nearly 4% over the two sessions following the report gpb.org reuters.com. It was a reality check: even the $1+ trillion AI juggernaut isn’t invincible to geopolitics and sky-high expectations.
1 September 2025
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AI Revolution Roundup: Meta’s Secret Weapon, China’s Global Gambit & Breakthrough Tech (July 25–26, 2025)

AI Revolution Roundup: Meta’s Secret Weapon, China’s Global Gambit & Breakthrough Tech (July 25–26, 2025)

Meta’s High-Profile Hire: In a bold talent grab, Meta Platforms announced it has hired Shengjia Zhao, a co-creator of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and GPT-4, as chief scientist of its new “Superintelligence Lab.” CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed the move on July 25, calling Zhao a “co-founder” of the lab who will “set the research agenda and scientific direction… working directly with me and Alex [Wang]” reuters.com. Zhao is one of several top researchers lured from OpenAI to Meta in recent weeks amid a fierce talent arms race reuters.com. Meta is reportedly offering lavish pay and equity to close the gap in advanced AI reuters.com. The new Superintelligence Lab will consolidate work on Meta’s LLaMa models and long-term AGI goals, operating separately from FAIR reuters.com. Zuckerberg has openly declared Meta’s aim to build “full general intelligence” as open source – an approach that has drawn both praise and concern in the AI community reuters.com. OpenAI & Google Unveil New Tools: Meanwhile, OpenAI and Google rolled out notable AI product updates. OpenAI fully launched its ChatGPT “Agent” feature to all ChatGPT Plus, Pro, and Team subscribers after a trial period medium.com. This Agent allows ChatGPT to perform web browsing and integrate “Operator” and “Deep
26 July 2025
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AI’s 48-Hour Frenzy: Breakthroughs, Billion-Dollar Bets & Bold Policies (July 22–23, 2025)

AI’s 48-Hour Frenzy: Breakthroughs, Billion-Dollar Bets & Bold Policies (July 22–23, 2025)

AI Tackles Advanced Math: In a milestone for AI reasoning, models from Google and OpenAI achieved gold-medal scores at the International Mathematical Olympiad reuters.com. It marks the first time AI systems crossed the Olympiad’s top-tier threshold, each solving 5 out of 6 challenging problems using new “general-purpose reasoning” methods that rely on natural language understanding reuters.com reuters.com. “I think the moment we can solve hard reasoning problems in natural language will enable the potential for collaboration between AI and mathematicians,” said Brown University professor Junehyuk Jung, suggesting AI may soon help tackle unsolved research problems in math reuters.com reuters.com. OpenAI’s team disclosed that their experimental model scaled up “test-time compute,” allowing the AI to “think” longer and in parallel – a costly effort the company called “very expensive” reuters.com. Google DeepMind, which worked directly with IMO organizers, used a general model Gemini Deep Think to solve problems within the official 4.5-hour limit entirely in natural language reuters.com. Experts at both companies see this as a breakthrough hinting that AI’s reasoning power could soon extend to frontiers in physics and other sciences reuters.com. New Image Generation Method: Researchers at MIT announced an AI imaging breakthrough that can create or edit pictures
23 July 2025
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Internet Access in China

Internet Access in China

China’s internet landscape is characterized by massive scale, state-controlled infrastructure, and strict governance. With over a billion users online, China hosts the world’s largest internet community, but this access comes with significant restrictions and a parallel digital ecosystem separate from the global internet. Below is an overview of key aspects of internet access in China, from infrastructure and service providers to censorship policies and emerging trends. China has built an extensive internet infrastructure, largely through state-run enterprises. Major Internet Service Providers in China include:
10 February 2025
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