Global stock market
On Wednesday (6th), most major stock indexes rose. Since the Democratic Party's "unification of the two houses" is almost a foregone conclusion, the market expects to introduce more stimulus policies in the future. The Dow Jones index soared more than 400 points to a record high, and the Standard & Poor's 500 index also set an intraday record. Only Nasdaq closed down. Photovoltaic stocks and cannabis stocks rose collectively, while technology stocks generally fell. Stimulated by this news, almost all e-commerce stocks generally fell sharply.
The Democratic Party will control the two houses and introduce more stimulus policies, so the concept stocks of economic restart will be boosted, the Dow will rise sharply, and Biden's policy beneficiary stocks (photovoltaic stocks, marijuana stocks, etc.). ) will also rise collectively. However, the Democratic Party may increase taxes and strengthen antitrust against Internet companies. Higher tax rates may have a greater impact on technology stocks, so Nasdaq fell on Wednesday.
commodity market
US crude oil inventories fell for the fourth consecutive week, and Saudi Arabia took the initiative to cut production to boost oil prices. WTI crude oil futures closed above $50 for the first time since February last year. The futures price of light crude oil for February delivery in the New York Mercantile Exchange rose by $0.70 to close at $50.63 per barrel, with an increase of1.4%; London Brent crude oil futures for March delivery rose 0.70 USD to 54.30 USD/barrel, or 1.3 1%.
The rise in the yield of US Treasury bonds depressed the price of gold, and gold futures fell more than 2% on Wednesday. February gold futures, the most actively traded in the New York Mercantile Exchange gold futures market, fell by 45.8 US dollars to close at 0 1.908.6 US dollars per ounce on the 6th compared with the previous trading day, with a decrease of 2.34%. Silver futures for March delivery fell 59.8 cents to close at $27.042 an ounce, a decrease of 2. 16%.
In addition, the crazy bitcoin continued to rise more than 8% on Wednesday, breaking through the $36,000 mark in one fell swoop, and subsequent investors still need to be alert to the callback risk after the continuous surge.
Market news
The riots in the United States have basically subsided, and Congress will restart Biden's election certification process.
After the US election, Trump supporters once again made a series of crazy moves. On Wednesday afternoon, US Eastern Time, when the US Congress held a joint meeting to confirm the election results, riots broke out outside the US Capitol, and then Trump supporters "captured" Congress, and Biden's election certification process was forced to stop. By Wednesday night, Eastern Time, the riots basically subsided, and Congress will restart Biden's election certification process.
Burns refused to overturn the election results.
On Wednesday, US Vice President Burns said that he would reject Trump's request to overturn the election results and would not prevent Congress from confirming Biden's election as US president. Before presiding over the joint session of Congress, Burns said that he had no right to unilaterally reject the election results. "The oath of supporting and defending the Constitution makes it impossible for me to claim that I have the unilateral right to decide which electoral votes should be counted and which should not."
The American media predicted that the Democratic Party would win the Senate.
The American media predicted that the Democratic Party would win the Senate and successfully unify the two houses. Many media predicted that in the Georgia runoff election, Democrat Jon Osoff defeated David Perdue and Republican David Perdue. Earlier, American media had predicted that Democrat Rafael Warnock would beat Republican Kelly loffler.
Minutes of the Fed meeting: I will fully say hello before I promise to continue to release water and reduce debt purchases.
At 3: 00 a.m. Beijing time on Thursday, the Federal Reserve released the minutes of the monetary policy meeting in May, 438+February and June, promising to maintain the scale of bond purchases until the economy improves substantially, and fully meet the market before reducing the scale of bond purchases. The final reduction of bond purchases will be "gradual", similar to the practice of 20 13-20 14.
Small non-agricultural enterprises in the United States turned negative again in June 5438+February.
The growing epidemic continues to hit the American job market. On Wednesday, local time, data released by ADP, an employment research institution, showed that the number of employed people in the United States decreased by 6,543,800+0.23 million in February, far less than the expected increase of 75,000. This is the first time since April 2020 that small-scale non-agricultural data has recorded a negative value.
The United States has not imported crude oil from Saudi Arabia for the first time in 35 years.
Last week, the United States did not import any crude oil from Saudi Arabia for the first time in 35 years. From June 5438 to last year 10, Saudi Arabia's oil exports to the United States dropped sharply. Since it takes about six weeks for the tanker to reach the import terminal in the west or the Gulf of Mexico after leaving Saudi Arabia, it has just begun to reflect the decline in imports.
Apple App Store's New Year's Day sales increased by 40% year-on-year
In its annual service report released on Wednesday, Apple said that on New Year's Day alone, App Store users spent a record $540 million, up 40% from last year. During the week from Christmas to New Year's Day, the sales of digital goods in the app store reached $654.388+$800 million, and the growth was mainly driven by game expenditure.
British antitrust authorities will investigate NVIDIA's acquisition of ARM.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), a British antitrust agency, said on Wednesday that it would investigate NVIDIA's $40 billion acquisition of British chip design company ARM. "We may evaluate whether ARM has the motivation to stop providing IP licensing services to NVIDIA competitors, or if the transaction is completed, increase the licensing price and reduce the quality of service."
New york Stock Exchange continues to push the delisting plans of three China telecom companies.
On Wednesday (65438+1 October 6), NYSE announced in official website that it would continue to push forward the delisting plans of three China telecom companies, and China Telecom, China Mobile and China Unicom (HK) would suspend trading at 4 am on June 65438+1October1Sunday. The NYSE said in the announcement that the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the U.S. Treasury provided the NYSE with the latest specific guidelines on October 5, 20265438.
The European Commission officially approved the marketing of the second COVID-19 vaccine.
On the afternoon of the 6th local time, three hours after the European Medicines Agency issued its recommendation, the European Commission officially issued a conditional marketing license to COVID-19 vaccine produced by Moderna Company of the United States, which is the second COVID-19 vaccine approved by the European Commission. Moderna has signed an order for165438+600 million doses of vaccine with the European Commission on October 25th, 2020, and the delivery is expected to be completed between the first quarter and the third quarter of 2002/kloc-0.
The United Arab Emirates announced that it will produce China's national medicine vaccine.
According to media reports on Wednesday, the UAE authorities have reached an agreement with China Sinopharm Group to produce local Sinopharm vaccines under the authorization of China. In addition, millions of doses of vaccines already produced will be imported from China. This is also the second time that China and China have deepened joint anti-epidemic cooperation after COVID-19 vaccine was officially approved to be listed in the UAE at the beginning of last month.
The expected delivery date of Model Y became the second quarter of this year.
Tesla China official website shows that only six days after the official launch, the expected delivery date of the domestic Model Y long-life version has been changed to 202 1 the second quarter, while the previous delivery date was this year 1.
Apple requires suppliers to produce 95-96 million iPhone in the first half of the year.
The media quoted the supply chain as saying that Apple placed an iPhone production order with suppliers in the first half of the year, demanding the production of 95 million to 96 million units. Production orders increased by 30% compared with the same period in 2020, mainly including iPhone 12 series, but also including iPhone 1 1 and iPhone SE. As proof, it was also reported on Wednesday that Murata, an Apple mobile phone capacitor supplier, plans to support the manufacture of 500 million smart phones in the 20021fiscal year.
Amazon invested $2 billion to build affordable housing.
In order to alleviate the housing shortage in the United States, Amazon will invest more than $2 billion to build and maintain affordable housing in its three central office cities. Amazon said it plans to invest in affordable housing in Seattle, Arlington, Virginia and Nashville, Tennessee in the next five years.