Chinese Stocks Plunge As Stimulus Hopes Fade: Hong Kong Posts Worst Daily Decline Since October 2008 – Alibaba Gr Hldgs (NYSE:BABA), Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU)
After weeks of soaring performance that positioned Chinese stocks among the best global performers year-to-date, a sharp selloff swept across Chinese markets overnight, with the Hang Seng Index in Hong Kong plummeting more than 9% on Tuesday. The massive drop marks the index’s worst single-day loss since October 2008, during the height of the global…