"The Long-Run Performance of Initial Public Offerings"
would never cross his desk, but he knew.
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Here's a story from MoneyWeek:
A sure sign that China's in a bubble
Is there a bubble in the Chinese market? Of course there is. You only need look at average p/es and at a chart of the Shanghai Composite to be pretty certain. However anyone still in any doubt need only look at the IPO of Alibaba.com (1688) last week in Hong Kong. The shares instantly more than doubled and ended their first day trading on a p/e of over 300 times.
But what does Alibaba actually do? It is usually referred to as “e-commerce company Alibaba.com”, a sign that not many people really know (yet another sign of a bubble…) but its basic business model is pretty simple: its website lists Chinese suppliers of manufactured goods to match them with buyers worldwide. Is it any good? Not according to the clothes and handbag designers I spoke to at the Billion Dollar Babes sample sale on Saturday.
One designer put it like this. “There are thousands and thousands of manufacturers listed. How do you know where to begin?...MORE
