(Updates)
** China-based firms' American depository receipts (ADRs)
gain premarket, after Beijing said it will scrap COVID-19
quarantine rules for inbound travellers from Jan. 8
** The world's second-largest economy will also downgrade
its management of COVID to the less-strict "Category B" from the
current top-level "Category A"
** E-commerce firms Alibaba Group Holding Ltd BABA.N ,
Pinduoduo Inc PDD.O , JD.com Inc JD.O and Vipshop Holdings
Ltd VIPS.N rise 4.1%-5.7%
** Search engine Baidu Inc BIDU.O soars 4.6%; social media
platform Weibo Corp WB.O soars 7.7%; online recruitment
services company Kanzhun Ltd BZ.O soars 5%
** Music-streaming firm Tencent Music Entertainment Group
TME.N up 6%; online entertainment firm iQIYI Inc IQ.O up
1.9%
** Gaming companies Bilibili Inc BILI.O and NetEase Inc
NTES.O up 8.8% and 3.3%, respectively
** E-brokerages Futu Holdings Ltd FUTU.O and UP Fintech
Holding Ltd TIGR.O up 4.4% and 2.6%, respectively
** iShares China Large Cap ETF FXI.P , KraneShares CSI
China Internet ETF KWEB.P , Direxion Daily CSI China Internet
Index Bull 2X ETF CWEB.P and iShares MSCI China ETF MCHI.O
climb 4.1%-10.6%
(Reporting by Ruhi Soni in Bengaluru)
((Ruhi.Soni@thomsonreuters.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ruhithere))