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[takeiteasy] 19/4/2024 12:49

hxxps://www.tipranks.com/news/citi-analyst-remains-bullish-on-microsoft-nasdaqmsft-citing-ai-and-azure-growth

hxxps://www.tipranks.com/news/the-fly/microsoft-internally-targeting-1-8m-gpus-by-december-insider-says

Microsoft (MSFT) intends to triple the amount of GPUs it has this year, having set an internal target of 1.8M GPUs by December 2024, Business Insider’s Ashley Stewart reports, citing a document. The company is aiming to make generative AI faster, better, and cheaper, but the effort requires the company to buy the chips, primarily from designer Nvidia (NVDA), the author notes

dyor etc

[takeiteasy] 19/4/2024 08:54

Our manager helpfully answers the question in my post 504 - interesting the text he highlights in yellow. Perhaps he does read this board at times :)

dyor and no advice

[takeiteasy] 18/4/2024 10:51

https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/ORACLE-CORPORATION-13620698/news/Oracle-to-Invest-More-Than-8-Billion-in-Cloud-Computing-and-AI-in-Japan-46462323/one of our smaller holdings dyor etc

[takeiteasy] 17/4/2024 15:40

nav update today moved 1% over the week leaving discount around 20%

[takeiteasy] 16/4/2024 18:44

hxxps://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/amd-s-stock-can-surge-40-this-new-bull-says-even-as-nvidia-still-dominates/ar-BB1lIFnh

dyor etc

[takeiteasy] 12/4/2024 12:03

"Another strong month for the Fund’s NAV moving up ~ 5 per cent TR. Q1 2024 has
seen a jump of ~ 33.5 per cent in NAV TR. It would not be surprising to see some
consolidation in the Ai rally until we see more proof of monetisation which may be delivered in the forthcoming Q1 results season.
The key concern for financial markets now is that the 10yr yield has climbed back to
~4.5 per cent following some hotter than expected inflation figures throughout
2024. The negative impact of higher yields on long duration assets should never be
underestimated. It is also critical for the Fund that there is no air pocket in the Quarterly Revenues at Nvidia as they introduce the Blackwell architecture chips which will succeed the current Hopper architecture"

I think this is a nice summary from the factsheet and the rationale for a sustained consolidation period with plenty of profit taking - be interesting to see what will bring the buyers back (discount is I think as high as it has even been since I joined here and that does not seem to make much of a difference either)

dyor and no advice

[iminterested] 12/4/2024 10:25

Planter is more phase 2/3 than phase1 chip manufacturer and data storage

[shavian] 12/4/2024 09:10

Still no sign of Palantir in the portfolio. I wonder why not?

[iminterested] 12/4/2024 08:20

9.08am I pay 6.47x 10000 for Mnl, Thank you M Sheppard, last time you picked the trading low @520p !!!

[takeiteasy] 11/4/2024 18:42

Southparkhedgie has written to Mark our manager on his twitter feed as to how he can short MNL, to which the reply was the following:

"We know Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan have borrow. Lots of CFD providers use these guys as the trade facilitators. There is 10,689 at the bid so decent amount to kick off!"
which almost comes across as tongue in cheek but is followed up by a large buy by Mark I read to make a point- who knows.

So maybe this has not happened yet - sheer madness imvho given we were at c.20% discount even before large tech bounce today eg Nvidia up 3% etc

[edwards9] 11/4/2024 16:27

What Hedgefund shorts? The FCA provides daily short positions over 0.2 percent in any UK stock. There are a couple of REITs shorted but MNL is not on the list for cob yesterday.

[takeiteasy] 11/4/2024 15:48

nice message from the fund managers buys today - you stick all your hedgie shorts on and I will buy against you lols 120k today is a decent sum :) dyor etc

[takeiteasy] 10/4/2024 23:10

hxxps://mlcapman.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/MLIT_Factsheet_202403.pdf

new fact sheet out tonight - nice he has bumped up micron holding (a little) :)

[takeiteasy] 10/4/2024 11:35

this is nvidia's keep supply partner :)

dyor and no advice

[takeiteasy] 09/4/2024 06:29

hxxps://www.msn.com/en-us/money/topstocks/analyst-revises-nvidia-stock-price-target-on-china-update/ar-BB1lioTK



we have had several months now of uber optimistic projections for this stock - I guess many will now take these with a pinch of salt as they lose the wow factor after hearing it repeated so often!

dyor and no advice etc

[takeiteasy] 08/4/2024 19:36

Microsoft plans AI hub in £2.5bn UK expansion after claiming Britain is a bad place to invest Tech giant is setting up artificial intelligence division at its London office

Microsoft plans to open a new artificial intelligence (AI) hub in London, a year after one the company’s president said his confidence in investing in the UK had been “severely shaken”.

The tech giant is setting up a new AI division at its office in Paddington as part of plans to invest £2.5bn in the UK. The division will be run by Google DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft’s newly hired AI tsar.

Mr Suleyman said: “There is an enormous pool of AI talent and expertise in the UK, and Microsoft AI plans to make a significant, long-term investment in the region.”

[takeiteasy] 08/4/2024 15:18

JPMorgan now has more than 2,000 AI and machine learning employees and data scientists working on 400 applications including fraud detection, marketing and risk controls, Dimon said. The bank is also exploring the use of generative AI in software engineering, customer service and ways to boost employee productivity, he said.

The technology could ultimately touch all of the bank’s roughly 310,000 employees, assisting some workers while replacing others, and forcing the company to retrain workers for new roles.

“Over time, we anticipate that our use of AI has the potential to augment virtually every job, as well as impact our workforce composition,” Dimon said. “It may reduce certain job categories or roles, but it may create others as well.”

[takeiteasy] 08/4/2024 13:05

ok - noted. In terms of exact timings, ASML is Wednesday 17th April for our first holding to report for this quarter.

[scottishfield] 08/4/2024 08:25

X divi is 11/4 and payment on 7/5 according to my info.

[takeiteasy] 08/4/2024 08:17

Dividend ex-date on 7/4, results season in full swing shortly with ASML, cadence, MSFT etc among the earlier ones - so hopefully an interesting month to follow the markets :)