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Incorporated in Hong Kong, supported by the mainland and targeting in global market, CMB International Capital Corporation Limited (“CMBI”) is an integrated financial institution providing comprehensive and professional services. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Merchants Bank ("CMB"), by leveraging on the Group’s synergy and coordination in domestic and overseas markets, as well as CMB’s strong resources and outstanding social reputation, CMBI and its subsidiaries have been actively implementing diversified business strategies and set up an overall layout of main business segments including Corporate Finance, Asset Management, Wealth Management, Global Markets and Structured Finance, etc. Adhering to the philosophy of “being clients oriented and increasing our own values by the way of creating value for clients”, CMBI endeavors to provide quality and integrated financial services to institutional, corporate and individual customers both domestic and overseas including Hong Kong IPO sponsorship and underwriting, share placement and rights issue for listed companies, financial advisors, bonds issuance services, asset management, direct investment, wealth management, equity sales and trading, etc.

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Baidu (Bidu.US): AIGC to Bring More Potential and Empower Search Biz

[Baidu (BIDU US) Target Price Change]: Margin Improvement Offsets R&D Increase

[Baidu (BIDU US) Target Price Change]: Better Recovery with Leading Position in AIGC

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<ul><li>The first wave of pandemic infection and soft macro have impacted short-term revenue recovery trajectory of Baidu’s ads business, and weighed on growth of cloud business, as it impacted project deployment and digitalisation spending budget of enterprises.</li><li>But Baidu’s advertising business is regaining recovery trajectory in January 2023 after pandemic impact wanes.</li><li>Looking into 2023, Baidu’s advertising business could recover along with macro environment, and its cloud revenue growth has the potential to reaccelerate, as Baidu cloud has established competitive advantage in verticals like smart transportation, manufacturing, energy &amp; utilities and public services.</li></ul><p><em>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.</em></p>

The first wave of pandemic infection and soft macro have impacted short-term revenue recovery trajectory of Baidu’s ads business, and weighed on growth of cloud business, as it impacted project deployment and digitalisation spending budget of enterprises.But Baidu’s advertising business is regaining recovery trajectory in January 2023 after pandemic impact wanes.Looking into 2023, Baidu’s advertising business could recover along with macro environment, and its cloud revenue growth has the potential to reaccelerate, as Baidu cloud has established competitive advantage in verticals like smart transportation, manufacturing, energy &amp; utilities and public services.Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

Baidu (BIDU US) – Factoring into near-term pandemic impact but recovery is in sight