Mark Cuban Asks Trump If He Knows About Alibaba's Impact on U.S.

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Billionaire investor and Trump gadfly Mark Cuban tweeted at the president Wednesday asking if knew how big of an impact a single Chinese company has had on the U.S. stock market.

Cuban asked Trump if he realized that “5 percent of the increase in stock market value ($250 billion), and 7.5 times our monthly trade deficit with China has gone to one Chinese company.” The tweetBloomberg Terminal included a link to a blog post about e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Alibaba’s U.S.-listed shares have almost tripled to $190.23 a share for a market valuation of $487 billion since its initial public offering in September 2014, which was the biggest in U.S. history.