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Speaker 1: Ali Baba on fire today. It looks like jack Ma's

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Speaker 1: diversification strategy is starting to pay off, as revenue at

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Speaker 1: Ali Baba Group Holding accelerates to the fastest since its

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Speaker 1: He's chief investment officer at Crane Shares. Ali Baba is

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Speaker 1: the number one position of Crane Shares c s I

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Speaker 1: China Internet et F ticker symbol k w EB just

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Speaker 1: rated five stars from Morning Star and as Brendan Nister

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Speaker 1: minus or the last three years, they've beaten the SMP

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Speaker 1: five hundred by holding Chinese stock, So welcome back, Thank you, Cather. So,

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Speaker 1: first of all the news on Ali Baba. What did

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Speaker 1: we find out today? Three key takeaways? Some of the

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Speaker 1: parts companies buying back stock and lastly the cloud computing.

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Speaker 1: I believe, based on aggregating these different divisions. UM secondarily

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Speaker 1: Why the buying back stock? Why do that? I mean,

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Speaker 1: because you take the shares out of circulation and stick

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Speaker 1: him UM. At the same time, the stock has been

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Speaker 1: So you you have investors the Ali Baba baby goes

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Speaker 1: Twitter at crane Shares That's with a K and talking

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Speaker 1: about Ali Baba reporting results that exceeded analyst estimates. Some

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Speaker 1: say it is a stellar report card, reporting quarterly results

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