China’s Crackdown on Alibaba Terrific for U.S. FAANG Stocks: Wedbush
China’s regulatory crackdown on online titan Alibaba (BABA) – Get Report and its affiliate Ant Monetary Group really should help the U.S. technological know-how sector, suggests analyst Daniel Ives of Wedbush.
“It was viewed by investors pre-Elections in early November that Chinese tech stalwarts these kinds of as Baidu (BIDU) – Get Report, Tencent (TCEHY) , Alibaba, JD.com (JD) – Get Report and other individuals ended up positioned perfectly to get far more trader mind-share, presented the complex global backdrop,” Ives wrote in a commentary Monday. “Fast ahead to currently and the Ant Economic IPO delay and additional regulatory crackdown is a main black eye for the Chinese tech sector and so forged a shadow over the place, with Alibaba front and center.”
Chinese regulators are investigating Alibaba on antitrust grounds and advised Ant to slim its concentration to payments. Alibaba owns 33% of Ant, the world’s major fiscal technologies company.
That signifies “dynamics will yet again bode properly for U.S. tech stocks as the favorable backdrop makes a nirvana set-up for FAANG [Facebook (FB) – Get Report, Amazon (AMZN) – Get Report, Apple (AAPL) – Get Report, Netflix (NFLX) – Get Report and Google (Alphabet) (GOOGL) – Get Report] names and the general U.S. tech sector into 2021,” Ives stated.
With Joe Biden as president and a probable Republican-managed Senate, Ives also famous that “the gridlock situation is bullish for the tech sector, as now it seems any possible antitrust legislative adjustments/fixes versus Large Tech have in essence strike a brick wall.”
And on the China entrance, “the U.S./China decoupling path could be altered with Biden in the White Home,” he explained. “The U.S./China Cold Tech war less than a Biden White Dwelling probably usually takes a a lot softer tone likely forward.” That would particularly assistance Apple, Cisco (CSCO) – Get Report, and semiconductor providers, Ives said.
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