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25/08/2026

BUY — Nebius Group N.V. (NASDAQ: NBIS)

Coverage initiated on August 24th, 2026 · Entry price $202.80

Nebius is the leading independent full-stack AI cloud: it builds and operates large-scale Nvidia GPU clusters for some of the world's biggest buyers of AI compute, run from Amsterdam by founder and CEO Arkady Volozh.

The core AI cloud drives roughly 98% of group revenue. Around it sits a portfolio of optionality: Avride in autonomous driving (partnered with Uber), TripleTen in technology reskilling, and minority stakes in Toloka, the AI-data business backed by Bezos Expeditions, and ClickHouse, valued at roughly $15 billion in its January 2026 round.

The Difference Is Global Access.

For information, not advice.
Published by Balfour Capital Group for informational purposes only; not investment advice or an offer to buy or sell any security. Entry price is indicative as of the date shown. All investing carries risk, including loss of capital.

20/08/2026

India is preparing its most significant market-structure overhaul in decades.

Reuters reported today that SEBI plans to cut collateral requirements by 15–20% for liquid cash equities, lower collateral on longer-dated derivatives, nearly double stock-lending eligibility, and introduce a closing auction session, a direct response to more than $50 billion of foreign equity outflows since October 2024 and a foreign-ownership base at a 17 -year low.

Our CIO Steve Alain Lawrence shared his view with Reuters, alongside commentary from MSCI, State Street Investment Management and the Investment Company Institute:

“That suggests SEBI has listened to the institutional investment community and focused on the practical issues investors face.”
Steve Alain Lawrence, CIO, Balfour Capital Group

What we’re watching: MSCI has confirmed it will assess these measures in future accessibility reviews. India’s EM index weighting has fallen from 21 % to below 12%. In our view, credible implementation is the first step toward reversing that, though the nine-month rollout will be the test.

Full Reuters article: balfourcapitalgroup.com/news

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19/08/2026

Two new buy recommendations from Balfour Capital Group.

BUY: Vistra Corp. (NYSE: VST), entered on August 17th 2026 at $145.70.

A Fortune 500 integrated power business running roughly 44,000MW of generation across gas, nuclear, coal, solar and storage, and serving about 5 million retail customers from California to Maine. It operates the second-largest competitive nuclear fleet in the United States, and Meta holds 20-year power purchase agreements across three of those plants.

BUY: CoStar Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSGP), entered on August 18th 2026 at $31.45.

The leading provider of commercial real estate information, analytics and online marketplaces, founded in 1986. Brands include CoStar Suite, Apartments.com, LoopNet and Homes.com. FY2025 revenue was $3.25 billion, up 18.7%, and Q2 2026 was its 61st consecutive quarter of double-digit revenue growth.

The Difference Is Global Access.

Informational purposes only. Not personalised investment advice. Entry prices are indicative levels for the dates shown.

18/08/2026

“We don’t have a huge labor pool, we don’t have a lot of space.” The best explanation of technology adoption I’ve heard from an operator — because it starts with a constraint, not a trend.

On Leaders at the Bell, Tim Ong made the case for technology in catering without once reaching for the word transformation. His framing is structural: Singapore has roughly five million people and very little land, so efficiency is not a competitive advantage — it is the precondition for operating at all.

Why this framing matters for investors:

• Constraint-driven adoption is durable — it survives budget cycles in a way trend-driven adoption does not

• The problems named are operational, not strategic — routing, payments, timing; each has a measurable payback

• Small domestic market, exportable playbook — solving for scarcity at home produces a model that travels across the region

• The market rewards it — the two fastest-growing formats in Singapore foodservice are both technology-mediated

The strategic read: a business forced to solve for labour scarcity and land scarcity in its home market builds a playbook that exports well into markets that have not yet hit those constraints.

17/08/2026

On MarketCalls, Steve Alain Lawrence laid out the chain of causation before the market priced it: AI drives energy demand, energy feeds inflation, and inflation keeps the long end elevated. His words: “not if they’ll go higher, you’ll see it at the pump, and you’ll see electricity prices also go higher over the long term because of AI.”

Asked directly where the thirty-year and ten-year were going, he did not hedge: “I see rates going higher. Okay? I don’t see a cut.”

What he said, on the record:

• Energy prices higher because of AI — the pump and the power bill, named specifically
• “I see rates going higher. I don’t see a cut.” — his exact words, unhedged
• The 5.20–5.25 zone on the long bond — discussed on air; the 30-year printed 5.21%
• Energy commodity vs energy equity divergence — Valero, Exxon and BP named as the beneficiaries
• Skeptical of an Iran deal — the supply-side risk premium stays in the price

Six days after the interview, the 30-year US Treasury yield stood at 5.21% and the 10-year at 4.63% (Federal Reserve H.15, August 13, 2026). No cut has been delivered, and markets now assign roughly a 35% probability to a September hike.

This is how Balfour tracks its calls. Not in retrospect — from the moment they are made.

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13/08/2026

Peak‑Period Demand Creates Partner Opportunity

Pulse International explains how traditional firms are unprepared for workload spikes, positioning Pulse as the go‑to partner during peak periods.

Leaders at the Bell – NYSE floor, July 23 2026. Host Victor Rodriguez with Jason Frank and Daniel Stiensmeier of Pulse International.

Informational purposes only. Not investment advice.

11/08/2026

Institutional Money Floods Into Nature Projects

Leaders at the Bell at the New York Stock Exchange – July 23rd 2026 – featuring Johan Boos (Balfour Capital Group) and Peter Haasz (Valinor Strategies). Host guides the discussion on the crisis, verification overhaul, and emerging nature‑investment opportunities.

Johan Boos cites Microsoft’s >$1 bn and NextEra’s >$20 bn commitments to biodiversity initiatives, signalling a major shift of capital toward nature‑based investments.



Informational purposes only. Not investment advice.

10/08/2026

Five new calls, four to buy and one to sell, each one dated and priced on screen. The number is what makes a call checkable later, so we publish it.

Four to buy. Celanese (CE) at $43.89, for the chemistry that other things get built out of. Formula One Group (FWONA) at $91.30, for two global championships whose rights cannot be recreated. Intuitive Machines (LUNR) at $16.40 and Rocket Lab (RKLB) at $82.83, for the unglamorous infrastructure of getting payloads to orbit and onto the Moon.

One to sell. Shopify (SHOP) at $151.57.

The thread running through all five: own what has to be physically built, own rights that cannot be recreated, and stay patient where the price already assumes everything goes right.

The Difference Is Global Access.

These are Balfour Capital Group research views for informational purposes only, not personalised investment advice. Entry prices are indicative levels for 10 August 2026.

05/08/2026

Two deadlines, ten minutes apart, on the same closing auction.

At 3:50pm the NYSE stops accepting market-on-close and limit-on-close orders. That is the order type you use if you want to be filled at the official closing price. After 3:50 you can only cancel one for a legitimate error, and after 3:58 the cancel is rejected outright. You have to call the exchange.

A floor broker has one more instrument. A D-Order is a discretionary closing-auction order that only a broker credentialed on that floor can enter, and it can be entered until 3:59:50pm. Ten seconds before the bell.

Nine minutes and fifty seconds of extra flexibility, on one order type, available to one group of people.

To be clear about what this is not: regular trading runs normally for everybody until 4:00pm. Nothing halts. The asymmetry is in who can still shape their participation in the closing auction, and for how long.

It shows up in the volume. More than 40% of the NYSE closing auction comes through floor-represented interest, in an auction that averaged over $43 billion a day in Q1 2026.

Market structure is designed, not natural. Who can act, when, and with what information is almost never visible in the price on your screen.

Informational purposes only. Not financial advice.

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