Alibaba Group Holding Limited

Tencent Holdings Limited

Chinese tech giant ByteDance, owner of TikTok, is aggressively moving into China's cloud services market, Financial Time (FT) <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/3732a646-da35-4437-bfde-7f9efc2725ff">writes</a>. The company is looking to use its advances in artificial intelligence to diversify its business beyond the consumer applications that have fueled ByteDance's growth, the newspaper notes. ByteDance's strategy to develop enterprise cloud AI solutions could "undermine" the established balance in the multi-billion dollar market, which has long been controlled by Alibaba, Tencent and Huawei, the publication points out.

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Intel Corporation

Netflix, Inc.

Johnson & Johnson

The shortened trading week - on January 19, stock exchanges in the U.S. will not open due to Martin Luther King Day - begins with the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, where <a href="https://www.barrons.com/articles/netflix-united-airlines-ge-aerospace-intel-cpe-cf2b31d3?mod=hp_latestnews#:~:text=where%20at%20least%2060%20heads%20of%20state%20are%20expected">dozens of</a> heads of state will gather. President Trump is expected to speak at the WEF on Wednesday, January 21, Yahoo Finance <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-in-davos-netflix-and-intel-results-on-deck-as-earnings-season-ramps-what-to-watch-this-week-123046447.html#:~:text=The%20first%20is%20President%20Trump%27s%20speech%20at%20the%20World%20Economic%20Forum%20in%20Davos%2C%20Switzerland%2C%20which%20is%20expected%20to%20take%20place%20on%20Wednesday%20morning%20ET.">reported</a>.

Davos, inflation, Netflix and Intel: what investors need to know this week

Porsche AG

Volkswagen AG

Volkswagen's premium brand - Porsche - <a href="https://newsroom.porsche.com/en/2026/company/porsche-deliveries-2025-41516.html">reported a</a> 10% decline in car sales in 2025. This was the sharpest decline since 2009, that is, since the global financial crisis, <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-16/porsche-sales-slump-most-in-16-years-on-weak-china-model-gaps?srnd=phx-industries">writes</a> Bloomberg. Shares of the luxury manufacturer fell in trading on January 16, continuing the collapse, which has already led to the loss of the status of "blue chip".

Porsche reports deepest slump in 15 years amid problems in China and US

China's largest online retailer Alibaba plans to link its flagship online shopping and travel services with its own AI assistant Qwen, taking the biggest step toward turning Qwen into a unified AI platform for users, Bloomberg writes. Alibaba's Qwen has previously been called the " <a href="https://www.gurufocus.com/news/3207043/alibabas-chatgpt-killer-ai-overhaul-signals-highstakes-play-for-mobile-domination">ChatGPT</a><a href="https://oninvest.com/article/ubijcu-chatgpt-ot-alibaba-za-pervuu-nedelu-skacali-10-mln-raz-kak-reagiruet-rynok">killer</a>." Last November - a week after its release - it was downloaded 10 million times.

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NVIDIA Corporation

Officials have advised Chinese companies to refuse to buy Nvidia chips; the status of the restrictions remains unclear, Reuters' sources said

China has effectively banned imports of Nvidia H200 AI chips - Reuters

Global investors note cheapness in Chinese stocks amid signs of accelerating corporate earnings growth 

Investment banks bet on a synchronized rise in Chinese stocks and the yuan in 2026

Apple Inc.

Alphabet Inc.

The company plans to move a key phase of the launch of its upper-end Pixel models to Vietnam, reducing its reliance on Chinese supply chains

Google to move premium smartphone development outside China - media outlet

Exxon Mobil Corporation

In the US, the conflict over the independence of the Fed has escalated due to criminal pressure on Jerome Powell. Donald Trump's administration is discussing military and non-military scenarios against Iran amid mass protests. China, despite betting on AI, electric cars and robotics, can't compensate for a prolonged collapse in real estate. About these and other topics - in our review of key events for the morning of January 12.

China will approve purchases of Nvidia's AI chips as early as this quarter - Bloomberg

Chinese authorities may oblige local businesses to buy AI chips domestically, sources tell Information

China demanded tech companies halt orders for Nvidia chips - media outlet

In 2025, the MSCI China Index gained 28%, while the S&amp;P 500 rose just over 16% during the same period.