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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, Podcasts, radio news.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Bloomberg Daybreak Asia podcast. I'm Doug Chrisner.

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Speaker 2: Tomorrow after the Bell in Video will deliver its highly

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Speaker 2: anticipated fourth quarter results. This is the world's most valuable

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Speaker 2: company and without a doubt, it's been the biggest beneficiary

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Speaker 2: of that big surge that we have seen in spending

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Speaker 2: on artificial intelligence over the past two years. Still there

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Speaker 2: are questions about whether data center operators will ease their

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Speaker 2: expenditures on artificial intelligence. Joining me now for a closer

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Speaker 2: look as Daniel Newman. He is the CEO of Futurum Group. Daniel,

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Speaker 2: it's always a pleasure. Thank you for joining us. You

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Speaker 2: have called in Vidia's earnings kind of a national holiday

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Speaker 2: in its own way. Make that case for me.

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Speaker 3: Well, we've seen over the last eight quarters it's become

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Speaker 3: the pivotal moment in the market, and over the last

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Speaker 3: two or three quarters you basically see the entire reflection

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Speaker 3: of what's happened with the other mag six companies kind

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Speaker 3: of culminate with this last report that comes out of

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Speaker 3: in Vidia, and unlike a lot of the other big earnings, Doug,

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Speaker 3: you'll see media folks like US analysts talking about this,

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Speaker 3: not just for days leading.

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Speaker 4: Up, it's weeks.

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Speaker 3: Of talk about what is going to happen and is

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Speaker 3: in Vidia the bell weather of the future of AI

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Speaker 3: in trade?

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Speaker 2: So the stock was down today about two point eight percent.

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Speaker 2: Over the last five trading days, I think we're off

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Speaker 2: about nine percent, and today and Video broke below that

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Speaker 2: two hundred day moving average. I know you're not a technician,

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Speaker 2: but is that a troubling sign.

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Speaker 3: I think this is the most pessimistic view I've seen

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Speaker 3: from the broader equities markets. Communities insist in video, though

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Speaker 3: it is every tech company. If you were a fast

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Speaker 3: you saw thirty percent pullback. In Vidia has accelerated and

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Speaker 3: pulled back, And of course it's felt like almost every

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Speaker 3: Sunday there's some piece of news. It's out to take

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Speaker 3: down the markets, it's taken down crypto, it's deep seek,

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Speaker 3: and so all these things are happening right now, and

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Speaker 3: it's kind of left in Video just right around where

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Speaker 3: it was six months ago. It's kind of just bouncing around.

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Speaker 4: But I'm not worried.

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Speaker 3: I think the trades very much intact very early ray So.

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Speaker 2: You mentioned deep seek there. I'm curious to get your

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Speaker 2: take as to whether or not the development of that

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Speaker 2: R one chatbot really kind of forces the market to

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Speaker 2: recalibrate this notion of how much spend is necessary to

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Speaker 2: great deal to you know, some of these advanced chips.

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Speaker 3: I think you think it did the opposite. I think

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Speaker 3: upon initial reflection of what we read and what we

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Speaker 3: saw come out of that team and out of China,

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Speaker 3: it did look that way. But what we've found is

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Speaker 3: that we need more compute, and it's going to happen

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Speaker 2: So I'm glad you're mentioning Microsoft there, because on Monday

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Speaker 2: I'd like to get your view on what we heard

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Speaker 2: So we were talking about the AI startup and Thropic

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Speaker 2: CEO of Futureum Group, joining us here on the Daybreak

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Speaker 2: Asia podcast. Welcome back to the Daybreak Asia Podcast. I'm

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Speaker 2: Deek Chrisner. Stocks and Asia are moving lower. This is

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Speaker 2: after a disappointing print on us consumer confidence, and this

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Speaker 2: in turn is fueling concern about the health of the

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Speaker 2: American economy, the world's largest. We heard from Daniel Lamb,

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Speaker 2: he is head of equity strategy at Standard Chartered Wealth Solutions.

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Speaker 2: He spoke earlier with Bloomberg scherry On and Heidi Stroud Watts.

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Speaker 5: Well, there are new factors at play nowadays in the markets.

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Speaker 5: So the DEEPSEK is a big factor. If you look

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Speaker 5: So that's what's been happening in terms of the variation

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Speaker 1: This is what the broader markets think. But Daniel, when

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Speaker 5: Okay, So there are few things so Chinese equities overall

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Speaker 4: Of the tech space, right They're gonna take.

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Speaker 5: That and keep that. But then the Chinese, you know,

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Speaker 6: say is sort of opportunistic moments in China, right, what

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Speaker 6: are you looking for the part at this point?

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Speaker 4: But then our point is.

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Speaker 5: That if you know they can make something like deep Seak,

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Speaker 5: Enter well in terms of variations back to five year

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Speaker 4: I believe that the long term opportunities still exist. The

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Speaker 5: People are just more focused on the China story right

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Speaker 1: On the other hand, it's been pretty noisy when it

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Speaker 1: comes to Japanese equity markets, just because of the interest

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Speaker 1: that we've seen from global investors. What will a stronger

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 4: I think Japanese.

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Speaker 5: Equities you've got to be more differentiative, right, So we

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Speaker 5: have a neutral overall, but in terms of the sectors,

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