Alibaba shares plunge despite quarterly sales beating expectations

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Alibaba is pushing hard to fend off e-commerce competition from bargain platform Pinduoduo and ByteDance's short-video platform Douyin.  © Reuters

CISSY ZHOU, Nikkei staff writer

HONG KONG -- Alibaba Group Holding's shares plunged over 8% during Tuesday morning trading in New York despite the Chinese e-commerce giant reporting that first-quarter sales beat expectations.

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