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<ul><li>Following is the unofficial transcript of a CNBC exclusive interview with Berkshire Hathaway CEO Greg Abel on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” (M-F, 6AM-9AM ET) today, Wednesday, September 2.</li><li>Berkshire CEO Greg Abel: Multi-decade high Japanese bond yields not a challenge for major trading houses right now BECKY QUICK: Welcome back, everybody.</li><li>Berkshire Hathaway first invested in Japan's five main trading houses just over six years ago, and it consistently increased its position.</li></ul>

Following is the unofficial transcript of a CNBC exclusive interview with Berkshire Hathaway CEO Greg Abel on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” (M-F, 6AM-9AM ET) today, Wednesday, September 2.Berkshire CEO Greg Abel: Multi-decade high Japanese bond yields not a challenge for major trading houses right now BECKY QUICK: Welcome back, everybody.Berkshire Hathaway first invested in Japan's five main trading houses just over six years ago, and it consistently increased its position.

Berkshire Hathaway CEO Greg Abel On The Best Way To Data Centers

<ul><li>Green Ash Horizon Fund fell 10.02% in July, sharply underperforming the MSCI World’s 0.51% gain as a broad momentum unwind hit technology and AI-related stocks.</li><li>The sell-off proved particularly severe in semiconductors, which fell 20% after gaining 88% over the preceding three months.</li><li>Despite the correction, hedge fund manager James Sanders remains constructive on the fundamental outlook and continues to see strong long-term potential in AI infrastructure.</li></ul>

Green Ash Horizon Fund fell 10.02% in July, sharply underperforming the MSCI World’s 0.51% gain as a broad momentum unwind hit technology and AI-related stocks.The sell-off proved particularly severe in semiconductors, which fell 20% after gaining 88% over the preceding three months.Despite the correction, hedge fund manager James Sanders remains constructive on the fundamental outlook and continues to see strong long-term potential in AI infrastructure.

Green Ash Horizon Fund Falls 10% in July as AI and Semiconductor Momentum Reverses

Asia Pac ECM and Index Rebal, Shenton Research

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Asia Pac ECM and Index Rebal

Asia Pac IPO & Placement Research, China Biotech

Shenton Research

Shenton Research is an independent Asia Pacific equity specialist. Our quantitative research covers index rebalancing flows, alongside exchange data analytics accross Asia Pacific. On the equity capital markets side, we focus on Asia Pacific ECM, especially biotech and TMT. Our lead analyst is frequently cited by international media.

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<li>We tracked AI models, infrastructure, and deals this week: Zhipu identified Ox Alpha, OpenAI showed Jalapeno, and Nvidia pursued Hugging Face.</li>
<li>China labs added Qwen, Tencent Hunyuan and Doubao updates, while DeepSeek changed weekend pricing and MiniMax and SenseTime reported results.</li>
<li>Hyperscaler movements covered Nscale, Amazon, Lambda, Volta, Iren, MTN and Yotta. OpenRouter still showed Anthropic ahead in revenue share.</li>
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We tracked AI models, infrastructure, and deals this week: Zhipu identified Ox Alpha, OpenAI showed Jalapeno, and Nvidia pursued Hugging Face.
China labs added Qwen, Tencent Hunyuan and Doubao updates, while DeepSeek changed weekend pricing and MiniMax and SenseTime reported results.
Hyperscaler movements covered Nscale, Amazon, Lambda, Volta, Iren, MTN and Yotta. OpenRouter still showed Anthropic ahead in revenue share.


This Week in AI (Aug 23-29): Ox Alpha and Jalapeno; Nvidia Eyes Hugging Face

Founder, Market Thinker

Mark Tinker

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Market Thinker

Mark Tinker has over 35 years experience as an investor, market strategist and economist. Having spent more than 20 years as a sell side strategist and being top rated on numerous occasions and surveys he moved to investment management in 2006 to run global equity portfolios in London and subsequently moved to Hong Kong in 2013 to help establish an Investment Management business for a top 20 international asset manager. He first started writing investment weeklies for his employers in 1989, developing a style characterised under the title Market Thinking and has been a regular commentator and presenter on CNBC, Bloomberg and other business channels, where his approach of rationalising market behaviour rather than making short term predictions on high frequency market data provides a welcome balance to his client audience.

Making Sense of the Narrative

Macroeconomics

<ul><li>The Software/ hardware trade in H1 was effectively a growth/value trade, but not in the traditional sense of active investor style bias.</li><li>Hundreds of billions of dollars tracking style or factor benchmarks like ‘Value’ were actually long Micron, Sandisk and Google and then flipped them out at end June, replacing them with what were previously called growth stocks like Microsoft and Apple.</li><li>Meanwhile, growth benchmarks that were long Microsoft and Apple, now have Micron and Google.</li></ul>

The Software/ hardware trade in H1 was effectively a growth/value trade, but not in the traditional sense of active investor style bias.Hundreds of billions of dollars tracking style or factor benchmarks like ‘Value’ were actually long Micron, Sandisk and Google and then flipped them out at end June, replacing them with what were previously called growth stocks like Microsoft and Apple.Meanwhile, growth benchmarks that were long Microsoft and Apple, now have Micron and Google.

Were style lags part of the July washout?

Independent research on the U.S. markets, Baptista Research

Baptista Research

Independent research on the U.S. markets

Baptista Research is an independent financial research house focused on the U.S. markets. We provide equity research as well as credit research reports on the top-listed U.S. companies with most of our focus on technology, consumer goods and services, automobiles, industrials, oil and gas, pharma, and healthcare. Our research has served more than 3000 institutional investors including mutual funds, hedge funds, banks, family offices, and various buy-side firms. We operate a research subscription service where institutions, as well as retail investors, can have priority access to all our research. We also have a wide distribution of our research reports across some of the top global financial platforms. Apart from equity research and credit research, we also provide advisory services with respect to mergers & acquisitions (M&A), private equity/ venture capital fundraising, valuation reports, and investment management services for corporates.
Baptista Research is owned and managed by Ishan Majumdar, an ex-Venture Capitalist/ Investment Banker, a Chartered Accountant, and a Masters’ degree holder in Management from HEC Paris. Ishan has nearly a decade of experience in Mergers and Acquisitions, Leveraged Buyouts (LBOs), Venture Capital Investing, Corporate Strategy, and Valuation in front-office roles at the likes of BNP Paribas CIB, Credit Agricole CIB, Groupe Danone, and TIW Private Equity. He has worked on and closed multiple acquisition deals, leveraged buyouts, and start-up investment transactions.

Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>The most recent quarterly reporting results of Alphabet Inc. showcased a strong performance and significant achievements across the company's diverse portfolio, punctuated by high revenue growth and strategic investments, particularly in AI technology.</li><li>Alphabet’s fourth-quarter results were particularly robust, with consolidated revenues reaching $113.8 billion, marking an 18% increase year-over-year.</li><li>The full-year revenue surpassed $400 billion for the first time, with continued strength across its core segments such as Google Services, Cloud, and YouTube.</li></ul>

The most recent quarterly reporting results of Alphabet Inc. showcased a strong performance and significant achievements across the company's diverse portfolio, punctuated by high revenue growth and strategic investments, particularly in AI technology.Alphabet’s fourth-quarter results were particularly robust, with consolidated revenues reaching $113.8 billion, marking an 18% increase year-over-year.The full-year revenue surpassed $400 billion for the first time, with continued strength across its core segments such as Google Services, Cloud, and YouTube.

Alphabet’s Cloud Momentum Is Exploding—And the $240 Billion Backlog Tells The Real Story!

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Alphabet Inc. operates as a holding company. The Company, through its subsidiaries, provides web-based search, advertisements, maps, software applications, mobile operating systems, consumer content, enterprise solutions, commerce, and hardware products.

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Berkshire Hathaway CEO Greg Abel On The Best Way To Data Centers

Following is the unofficial transcript of a CNBC exclusive interview with Berkshire Hathaway CEO Greg Abel on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” (M-F, 6AM-9AM...

Hedge Fund Alpha

Green Ash Horizon Fund Falls 10% in July as AI and Semiconductor Momentum Reverses

Green Ash Horizon Fund fell 10.02% in July, sharply underperforming the MSCI World’s 0.51% gain as a broad momentum unwind hit technology and...

Hedge Fund Alpha

This Week in AI (Aug 23-29): Ox Alpha and Jalapeno; Nvidia Eyes Hugging Face

This week in AI: Ox Alpha is Zhipu's GLM-5.3-Flash; OpenAI tests Jalapeno against GB300; Nvidia eyes Hugging Face as Moonshot talks with US cloud...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Were style lags part of the July washout?

The Software/ hardware trade in H1 was effectively a growth/value trade, but not in the traditional sense of active investor style bias.

Mark Tinker

Alphabet’s Cloud Momentum Is Exploding—And the $240 Billion Backlog Tells The Real Story!

The most recent quarterly reporting results of Alphabet Inc. showcased a strong performance and significant achievements across the company's...

Baptista Research

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