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Alibaba: The Biggest IPO You've Never Heard Of

Shares in Alibaba - the Chinese e-commerce giant - start trading in New York on Friday. Is the global frenzy around its initial public offering justified?

Shares in Alibaba - the Chinese e-commerce giant - start trading in New York on Friday. We speak to Shanghai-based Vincent Digonnet, executive chairman of the digital marketing company Razorfish Asia, about whether the hype surrounding the company's IPO is justified.

Also, Zurich-based Guy Spier, author of The Education of a Value Investor, tells us how he went from being a 'Gordon Gekko' investor interested mainly in short-term profits to one with a long-term horizon, following in the footsteps of Warren Buffett.

And Andrew Wilson, global co-head of fixed income at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, helps us to decode comments from Janet Yellen, head of the Federal Reserve, about where American interest rates are heading.

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Thu 18 Sep 2014 07:32GMT

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