On the evening of July 29th, the Wall Street Journal reported that Didi, an online ride-hailing company, was considering privatization to appease the dissatisfaction of Chinese authorities. The report said that the company would also compensate investors for losses incurred by the company's listing in the United States a month earlier. Didi later denied this report on its official Weibo channel. Prior to that time, the company's pre-market share price spiked 50%.