The curves point upwards on Asia’s leading stock markets in the initial Friday trading. But Hong Kong is going against the flow and losing 1.7 percent, with the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba as the sink. Alibaba shares plummeted 10.3 percent in Friday trading, following yesterday’s interim report which showed lower-than-expected sales revenues. A slowdown in consumption in China and global bottlenecks have hit the Chinese e-commerce group hard, which has also been hit by Chinese regulatory tightening. It is more positive in Tokyo, where the new Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has promised a record-breaking Japanese stimulus package of the equivalent...