⚠Top mover alert: Alibaba tumbles 4.6% on China's newly announced live streaming regulations
📉 $BABA-W(09988)$ shares are leading the Chinese e-commerce sector sell-off with a 4.6% tumble to HKD 143.90 (as of 135PM) following a newly released regulation on live-streaming activities that will go live on 1 February 2026
📢China's State Administration for Market Regulation announced today that online platforms cannot force merchants to join promotion campaigns or impose unreasonable restrictions on them
⛔Live-streamers are henceforth strictly prohibited from engaging in false advertising, commercial defamation, and the sale of illegal goods and services
🤳Other e-commerce names such as $KUAISHOU-W(01024)$ (-3% to HKD 73.25) are also trading lower today on the news
🤖Specifically for Alibaba, its weakness may also be related to rising memory-chip prices, which may squeeze the company’s profits due to its AI-related investments, according to Bloomberg
👀Investors keen to trade the volatility in the Chinese e-commerce names can do so via the below trending warrants. Click on the below links to see how they move alongside their respective underlyings
✳Alibaba call $Alibaba MB eCW260505(WLWW.SI)$ : https://warrants.com.sg/tools/livematrix/WLWW
✴Alibaba put $Alibaba MB ePW260303(IBBW.SI)$ : https://warrants.com.sg/tools/livematrix/IBBW
✳Kuaishou call $Kuaisho MB eCW260505(UIJW.SI)$ : https://warrants.com.sg/tools/livematrix/UIJW
🔍Alibaba put IBBW has gained 37.1% with the decline in Alibaba shares, while the calls have tumbled up to 26.7%, tracking their respective underlyings accordingly.
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