Hidden Value Gems
An interesting piece on the reasons for huge valuation discounts of Korean companies (by Federated Hermes):

1⃣ "The high effective inheritance tax that applies in South Korea to large estates, which (after surcharges) can be as high as 60%." This forces controlling shareholders to extract value from companies in other ways.

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$BABA cutting cloud prices by 20%. This is the second cut in a year (the first one was 50%). I guess we can forget about Cloud profitability for a while now.

Apparently, Alibaba is still the market leader in China cloud, followed by Huawei and Tencent.
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