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Alibaba is essentially too big for its home market.

HONG KONG - Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba is set to price its first share sale in Hong Kong next week, raising up to $13.4 billion in what will be the largest deal in the city since 2010 and the world's biggest ever cross-border secondary listing.Analysts say establishing a base outside the United States gives the U.S.-listed company options, especially in the light of the U.S.-China trade dispute.

Alibaba, which is due to start trading on Nov. 26 in Hong Kong, could also benefit from Chinese demand. While Alibaba holds the record for the world's biggest initial public offering, with its $25 billion New York listing in 2014 - pipping Hong Kong which hosted Agricultural Bank of China's $22 billion deal in 2010, China's biggest IPO in the past decade was the $7.3 billion float in 2009 of China State Construction Engineering Corp , Refinitiv data shows.

The listing is also the culmination of six-plus years of argument, consultations and rule changes that all stemmed from Alibaba's decision in 2013 to list in New York, not Hong Kong.

 

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