京东商城在美国已募股18亿美元
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=14px][b]Chinese online retailer JD.com has raised $1.8bn in its US share sale, valuing the company at more than $25bn according to underwriters Bank of America and UBS Investment Bank.[/b][/size][/font][font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=14px][b]中国网络零售商京东商城在美国已售出18亿美元股份。据美国银行与瑞银投资银行估算，该公司市值已超250亿美元。[/b][/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=14px]Shares are due to start trading on the Nasdaq on Thursday under the symbol 'JD' at the price of $19 per share. [/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=14px][url=http://www.enread.com/news/business/96751.html]JD.com[/url] is China's second largest e-commerce firm after Alibaba. [/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=14px]The IPO will be closely watched as a measure of Wall Street's appetite for Chinese internet firms.[/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=14px]The e-commerce industry in China is attracting a lot of interest, due to increasing affluence in the world's second largest economy as well as rising access to the internet. [/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=14px]According to research firm eMarketer, China's business to consumer e-commerce sales may surpass $180bn this year.[/size][/font]
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[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=14px]In its IPO prospectus, JD.com said it had a 17.5% market share based on transaction volume, as of the third quarter of last year. The figures are based on calculations by iResearch, a research firm. [/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=14px]Asia's biggest internet company, Tencent Holdings, bought a 15% stake in JD.com in March this year, in an attempt to grab a larger share of China's online [url=http://www.enread.com/news/business/96751.html]shopping[/url] market. [/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=14px]Under the deal, JD.com will take full control of Tencent's e-commerce business, which includes subsidiaries such as QQ Wanggou and Paipai.[/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=14px]The purchase signals heightened efforts by Tencent to take on rival Alibaba. [/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=14px]JD.com's list of investors include Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, with a 5% stake. [/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=14px]The e-commerce firm plans to use proceeds from the IPO to expand its infrastructure needs with the building of new warehouses and establishing more delivery stations. It also wants to build a fund for potential investments in and acquisitions of complementary businesses, assets and technologies.[/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=14px]US investors will be watching how JD.com shares perform on Nasdaq, hoping for clues as to how Wall Street will receive rival Alibaba, which filed for an IPO earlier this month. [/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=14px]Analysts are expecting [url=http://www.enread.com/news/business/96751.html]Alibaba[/url] to raise more than $15bn.[/size][/font]
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