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US Investors Show Little Interest - So Far - in Alibaba IPO

When Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding revealed plans earlier this year to go public on a U.S. stock exchange, financial advisers like Bob Mecca in Hoffman Estate, Illinois, braced themselves for a wave of frantic calls from retail investors wanting to get in on the action. Alibaba, which sells more than Amazon.com Inc. and EBay Inc. combined, could raise over $21 billion in its IPO. It is often described as technology's hottest initial public offering since Facebook...

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