Category: Chinese stocks

Foreign Investors Left in the Dark After Ant Group’s Scuttled IPO

News Analysis Early investors in China’s fintech giant Ant Group thought they were in line for a massive pay day, until that all evaporated within days as Ant’s much-anticipated IPO last year was suddenly scuttled by Chinese regulators. Venture capital and private equity firms such as Silver Lake and Carlyle Group believed they had a…


Ant Group’s Scuttled IPO Leaves Foreign Investors in the Dark

News Analysis Early investors in China’s fintech giant Ant Group thought they were in line for a massive payday, that is, until Ant’s highly anticipated initial public offering last year was suddenly scuttled by Chinese regulators. Venture capital and private equity firms such as Silver Lake and Carlyle Group believed they had a winner in…


Chinese Companies, US Investors Could Accelerate Decoupling Amid NYSE Delisting

News Analysis The trend of Chinese companies leaving U.S. stock exchanges is likely to accelerate after the New York Stock Exchange announced plans to boot three Chinese telecom companies from the exchange. This is especially the case for state-owned enterprises (SOEs), as there’s a higher risk that SOEs are connected to the Chinese Communist Party…


Chinese Stocks Hit After US Delisting Notice

WASHINGTON—Chinese stocks trading on U.S. exchanges dipped on Jan. 4 after the New York Stock Exchange announced that it would delist shares of China’s three large telecom companies in light of President Donald Trump’s new executive order regarding companies with ties to China’s military. On the first trading day of 2021, a sharp fall in…


Sina’s US Stock Market Departure Could Herald a Wave of Chinese Delistings

News Analysis Chinese internet firm Sina Corp. agreed to go private and delist from Nasdaq, twenty years after its landmark U.S. IPO that led to a wave of Chinese companies listing their shares in the United States. Sina’s decision was crystallized after an entity led by its chairman Charles Chao sweetened the acquisition offer to…