The signage will be on display at Alibaba Group’s headquarters during the company’s 11.11 Singles’ Day global shopping festival in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, November 11, 2020.
Aly Song | Reuters
GUANGZHOU, China – Alibaba shares in Hong Kong are up more than 5% on Monday after the company was fined 18.23 billion yuan ($ 2.8 billion) by Chinese regulators following an anti-monopoly investigation.
“Despite the record amount of the fine, we think this should eliminate a large overhang on BABA and shift the market’s focus back to fundamentals,” Morgan Stanley wrote in a note on Sunday, a day after the fine was over. issued.
Chinese regulators opened an anti-monopoly investigation into Alibaba in December. The main focus was around a practice that forces merchants to list their products on one of the two ecommerce platforms, rather than choosing both.
China’s State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) said on Saturday that this practice stifles competition in China’s online retail market and “infringes on the businesses of merchants on the platforms and the legitimate rights and interests of consumers.”
Alibaba CEO Daniel Zhang said he does not expect a material impact on the company from the change to this exclusivity arrangement.
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