China’s top tech stocks add $439 billion as ‘Mag Seven’ sink
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A $439 billion rally in Chinese tech megacaps this year has left their once-unbeatable US peers in the dust, an outperformance that many investors say has room to extend. An equal-weighted basket of China’s seven tech heavyweights including Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Tencent Holdings Ltd. — dubbed the “7 titans” by Societe Generale SA — has gained more than 40% this year. That compares with an about 10% drop in an index of the Magnificent Seven stocks, whose slump has also pushed the Nasdaq 100 Index to the brink of a correction. It’s a sharp reversal of fortunes that few in Wall Street saw coming. Earlier this year, the Nasdaq gauge had notched yet another record, while Chinese stocks were still marred by years of regulatory crackdown and a tepid consumption recovery. Then almost overnight, DeepSeek upended the perception that it will take years — if ever — for China to catch up to the level of America’s AI supremacy. Chinese tech st...