Investors Lose Taste for Chinese Consumer Stocks

Surging commodity prices—triggered by the war in Ukraine—threaten to eat into profits, while Covid lockdowns dent demand

Chinese tech stocks popular among U.S. investors have tumbled amid the country’s regulatory crackdown on technology firms. WSJ explains some of the new risks investors face when buying shares of companies like Didi or Tencent. Photo Composite: Michelle Inez SimonHONG KONG—In recent years, shares in Chinese companies selling everyday goods like milk, beer and rice crackers have been a safer bet than new-economy businesses such as online platforms and electric-car makers.

That advantage has faded so far in 2022, as surging commodity prices—triggered by the war in Ukraine—threaten to eat into profits of consumer-product makers, and fresh Covid-19 lockdowns in the world’s second-largest economy have dented demand for some goods.

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