Alibaba IPO a Bet on Future Global Internet: Kirkpatrick

Sept. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Tobias Levkovich, chief U.S. equity strategist at Citi Research, and Contributing Editor David Kirkpatrick examine the need to own Alibaba and the stock’s growth potential because of its connection to Chinese consumers. They speak on “Bloomberg Surveillance.”

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