Shares of Chinese small cap MMTec Inc. MTC rose 9% in premarket trades Monday. The stock ended Friday’s session down 15%, outpacing the S&P 500 index’s SPX decline of 0.1%. A financial services company mostly focused on investment banking and asset management, MMTec has a market cap of $66.4 million. MMTec is one of a number of small-cap Chinese stocks, such as Hong Kong-based financial services provider Magic Empire Global Ltd. MEGL, that have been attracting attention recently. MMTec relocated its headquarters from Beijing to Hong Kong earlier this year.

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