NEW YORK, June 7 (Xinhua) -- U.S.-listed Chinese companies traded roughly mixed on Thursday, with half of all top 10 stocks by weight in the S&P U.S. Listed China 50 index ending the day on a upbeat note and another half ending lower.
Shares of Chinese biopharmaceutical company BeiGene, Ltd. soared 1.68 percent to close at 213.43 U.S. dollars apiece, the biggest advancer among the 10 stocks.
Meanwhile, stocks of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, the biggest laggard, lost 2.25 percent in market closing.
Shares of another Chinese e-commerce company JD.com lost 2.23 percent to close at 39.50 U.S. dollars apiece on Thursday.
As of Wednesday, the S&P U.S. Listed China 50 index stood at 3,369.39, marking a 5.48-percent increase for the month-to-date returns and a 9.01-percent gain for the year-to-date returns.
U.S. stocks ended mixed on Thursday as investors digested a batch of economic data.
The Dow was up 0.38 percent to 25,241.41, and the S&P 500 fell 0.07 percent to 2,770.37, while the Nasdaq decreased 0.70 percent to 7,635.07. Enditem
