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Emerging markets exchange traded funds are performing well this year, easily topping their US-focused counterparts along the way. Within the realm of emerging markets funds, the ETFs that are truly impressing usually share one trait in common: large exposure to Chinese Internet stocks.   There...

Benzinga has featured a look at many investor favorite stocks over the past week. Some of those calls focused on retail and on internet-related stocks. Other calls featured a slew of smaller oil companies worth a look now. It was a bit of a roller-coaster this past week, with all the...

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE: BABA) is poised to hit a new all-time high Thursday after impressing investors with its fiscal first-quarter earnings report. Shares of Alibaba gained more than 7 percent after reporting that it earned $1.17 per share on revenue of $7.403 billion; analysts were...

More of the big retailers are on deck to report their most recent quarterly results this week. Wall Street is braced for mixed results from the troubled sector again this week. Yet two leading specialty retailers could buck the trend of low expectations. The big-box stores and the major...

Entrepreneurs are living through a critical time of transition in technology, business and globalization, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE: BABA) Executive Chairman Jack Ma said Wednesday in Detroit. The companies that use the internet well in the coming years “will win,” Ma told an...

The most important factor in business is trust, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE: BABA) Executive Chairman Jack Ma said in a conversation with journalist Charlie Rose Tuesday. The 52-year-old billionaire said he strives to hire employees who are smarter than him — and they are best managed via...

Whether it is justified or not, business leaders in Western countries have the freedom to exclaim their company is more powerful than nation states. But in China doing so may be viewed as crossing the red line, the most recent example being Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE: BABA)'s founder and...

Shares of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE: BABA) soared higher by more than 11 percent early Thursday morning after the company hosted Day One of an Analyst Day presentation. Alibaba's CEO Daniel Zhang and Chief Financial Officer Maggie Wu presented investors with an update to its 2018 outlook,...

Reports from two big-box retailers will be among earnings highlights this week. Wall Street analysts expect very different results each of them. Just one of them exceeded earnings expectations in the previous two periods. The parade of big retailers sharing their latest quarterly results has...

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE: BABA)'s chairman Jack Ma has a dire warning for the world: Expect "much more pain than happiness" over the next three decades. According to a Bloomberg report, Ma is making the case that robotics and automation will change the entire structure of today's society....

Three leading transportation companies are due to report earnings this week. Expectations for the two rail giants and a big airline are very different. The ongoing Trump rally and anticipation of infrastructure spending marked the quarter. The fourth-quarter earnings reporting season is underway...

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE: BABA)'s Singles' Day was a smashing success last week, as it sold $17.8 billion worth of products. By comparison, the company's gross merchandise volume (GMV) in 2015 totaled $14.3 billion. Perhaps more impressively, Alibaba's GMV during 2013's event was $5.14...