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China's Blowing Hot on Tech Stocks
It's moving fast and breaking things -- rules, to be precise. Watch for the fallout.
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Just as U.S. technology shares are losing air, China's planning to engineer its own boom.
Over the weekend, the country took a major step toward bringing U.S.-traded technology giants such as Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Baidu Inc. to the domestic market, via a trial program that would let them sell Chinese depository receipts. More remarkably, the China Securities Regulatory Commission essentially removed all profitability requirements for so-called innovative companies, with a brief announcement that ended at least a decade of market practice.