The MSCI World Index added 34 constituents and eliminated 24

MSCI said it would add 34 new securities and exclude 24 securities after the February index review. The top three new components of the MSCI World Index by total market capitalization will be Atlassian, Axon Enterprise and Reliance Steel & Aluminium. The three largest new components of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index by total market capitalization will be Bank of Baroda, AiXu and South Korea’s Kakaopay. The three new constituents include HNA Holdings, Hainan Airport and Zhonggong Education. The changes will take effect at the close of trading on February 28. Since the MSCI China Index is nested into the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, the entry of stocks into the MSCI China Index means entering the MSCI Global Standard Index series and will receive a large number of passive capital tracking.

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Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) has disbanded the Industrial Metaverse Applications team

According to a person with direct knowledge of the matter, Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) has disbanded the four-month-old metaverse application team that aims to help customers use the metaverse in an industrial setting. The person said that all about 100 employees of the team have been laid off.

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Jefferies: Raised Microsoft’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) price target to $310 with a Buy rating

According to a report by Jefferies, Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) uses OpenAI’s next-generation language model to release artificial intelligence updates to search engines Bing and Edge, and it is expected that search improvements will help long-term advertising revenue. However, the bank mentioned that it will take time to push users to use Bing again, and Microsoft needs to pry advertisers away from Google, so it only regards such updates as the tip of the iceberg of the group’s artificial intelligence capabilities, and believes that there will be the greatest opportunity in enterprise applications. Jefferies raised its price target on Microsoft to $310 from $275 and maintained its Buy rating.

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