On July 31, Alibaba rose 3.24% overnight, trading at $119.94/share, with turnover of $26.87 million.
On the news front, Microsoft reported quarterly results showing cloud revenue surging over 40% year-over-year, with capital expenditure coming in below expectations. Microsoft shares jumped more than 7% post-earnings, triggering a broad revaluation of global cloud computing and tech platform stocks. Alibaba, which operates a significant cloud intelligence business, benefited directly from this sector-wide uplift.
Additionally, UBS recently raised its target price for Alibaba while maintaining an active positive rating, projecting the company's second-quarter revenue to grow 9% year-over-year. Within the Broadline Retail sector, Amazon rose 9.75%, PDD Holdings rose 0.45%, Coupang rose 0.81%, MercadoLibre rose 0.17%, while Sea Ltd fell 0.6%.
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