On Monday, China’s biggest online shopping company processed more than $5.75 billion[!]in its online payments system—a record for a single day anywhere in the world, surpassing by two and a half times the total for American retailers last year on so-called Cyber Monday.
…Alibaba reported Monday that it had 402 million unique visitors to its sites — more than a third of the adult population in China — and prepared 152 million parcels for shipping.
“The efficient-market hypothesis may be the foremost piece of B.S. ever promulgated in any area of human knowledge!”