Opportunities in fixed income | UBS
_/ Opportunities include adding medium- and long-duration IG bonds, diversifying thru EM credit and high-yield debt & focusing on current yields. Caution is advised on longest bonds due to fiscal and #AI debt concerns.
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Cloud profitability NOT collapsing | Nomura
_/ Infrastructure investment cycle explains weak FCF better than weak underlying demand
-> AWS: rev +39%, operating margin 38.7%
-> Google Cloud: rev +103%, operating margin 36.2%
-> Azure: growth +48%
AI’s cash bill != profitability
“While a blue wave could spark volatility in certain sectors, such as tech and #AI, given growing public opposition to the buildout of data centers, we believe markets can grind higher regardless of the outcome as investors applaud falling uncertainty,” | CIO, Continuity Group
#AI stocks being "sold to death" but there is a silver lining now | GS
_/ AI plays have derated, short positions must now be monetized & upshot of the elections could be to actually accelerate CapEX rather than deter it.
_/ Q3 numbers as evidence of strength of AI capex cycle.
Google researchers are fighting the company to tell the world what they know about #Al | WP
_/ in DeepMind, Google’s AI division workers are pushing executives to release them from NDA, arguing that they must be free to inform the public about AI risks..
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🇵🇾 Paraguay's central bank intervenes in Ueno bank
_/ Paraguay seizes major digital bank tied to president, leaving millions of customers in limbo ...
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lol, Dude it's not the data centers. it's the approach. There's a decorum in dealing with rural America. shoving things down their throat is not one of them.
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Unmitigated | MIT
_/ How are the world's largest companies responding to #AI risks?
_/ 32% of world's 100 largest companies had not acknowledged any AI risks few months b4 autonomous OpenAI agents escaped their testing environment & hacked Hugging Face.
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Music in the Air | GS
_/ opportunities and risks around Generative #AI, reexamine ad-supported monetization opportunity, evaluate emerging direct-to-consumer ecosystem, industry forecasts, and outlines an investment framework across music value chain.
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Is This The First Clear Evidence Of #AI’s Impact On Labor Market
_/ US tech layoffs after 2022 rate hikes, hinting that the reduction in employment may itself be the reason for increased productivity.
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Hedge Fund Elliott Warns of 𝐅𝐎𝐆𝐎: 𝐅𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐆𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐎𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭
_/ The $80 billion hedge-fund firm posted flat returns in third quarter and under 2% gains this year through September.
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