(Bloomberg) -- China’s walled off tech universe isn’t offering its biggest companies much protection from the global equity rout.
The so-called BAT block of Baidu Inc., Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Tencent Holdings Ltd. have seen their combined market fall by $141 billion from this year’s highs as a selloff in U.S. peers spreads across the globe.
The companies were major beneficiaries of the tech equity surge that marked 2017, and are now feeling the consequences as it unravels. Tencent’s warning on margin pressure as well as a surprise sale of stock by its biggest shareholder only added to investor jitters. Tencent is poised to cap its first back-to-back monthly loss since 2016 in Hong Kong.
Tech stocks in the U.S. have been hurt by a barrage of bad news, from Facebook Inc.’s privacy scandal to fatal crashes at Uber Technologies Inc. and Tesla Inc. The latest star to fall was Amazon.com Inc., after Axios reported that U.S. President Donald Trump is contemplating ways to “go after” the e-commerce giant. The Nasdaq 100 Index has tumbled more than 9 percent from its March record amid surging volatility.
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