Will the forty thieves be laughing to the bank tonight?
@pekss:
Hopes are high on $Alibaba(BABA)$ ’s earnings slated to be released before US market opens tonight, after its peers $JD.com(JD)$ and Tencent reported results that had exceeded market expectations. Alibaba and JD are the two largest Chinese e-commerce companies typically benchmarked against each other, though their business models are essentially distinct from one another. Alibaba offers third-party platforms for consumer-to-consumer and business-to-consumer on-line transactions, whereas JD derives most of its revenue from its first-party marketplace by maintaining its own inventory and selling direct to consumers, not unlike Amazon does. By virtu