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Market: Overnight and this morning

"Mini Non-Farm Payrolls" suppresses rate cut expectations, Nasdaq falls for the fifth consecutive day, Apple downgraded twice in three days, cumulative decline exceeds 5%

The strong ADP employment growth raises doubts about whether the Fed will start cutting interest rates as early as the market currently expects, and whether the rate cut will be as large as expected. Only the Dow Jones Index closed higher. The Nasdaq fell 0.56% for the fifth consecutive trading day.

Leading tech stocks rebounded slightly. Apple fell nearly 1.3%, down for four consecutive days. Amazon fell 2.6%, Alphabet fell 1.8%, Microsoft fell over 0.7%, Netflix rose over 0.9%, and Meta rose nearly 0.8%.

Overall rebound of AI concept stocks, outperforming the market. At the close, BigBear.ai rose nearly 5.9%, SoundHound.ai rose 4%.

Most popular Chinese concept stocks fell. XPeng and NIO fell by about 2.7%, Li Auto fell by about 1.8%. Faraday Future fell 2%, Bilibili fell over 3%, Alibaba, Tencent Music, Douyu fell over 2%, JD.com fell over 1%, Pinduoduo fell 0.8%, NetEase fell nearly 0.4%, New Oriental rose over 5%, Gaotu Education rose over 3%, TAL Education rose over 1%, Baidu turned slightly higher.

What happened to blue-chip stocks and hot stocks

Eli Lilly launches weight loss drug delivery service, stock price hits all-time high

Eli Lilly has launched a digital healthcare platform for home delivery of drugs for obesity, migraines, and diabetes patients.

Quantumscape solid-state battery achieves 500,000 km ultra-long lifespan

Quantumscape surged 26%. A subsidiary of Volkswagen Group completed an endurance test using Quantumscape solid-state batteries, and the results showed that it can achieve an ultra-long lifespan of 500,000 km.

Media: Goldman Sachs is in talks to become an authorized participant in the spot Bitcoin ETFs to be launched by BlackRock and Grayscale

Currently, 14 asset management companies hope to eventually obtain approval from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for spot Bitcoin ETFs.

U.S. media: OpenAI to launch "Chatbot Store" next week

The Chatbot Store will allow customers of AI model developers to share and sell customized chatbots based on OpenAI technology for different purposes. The Chatbot Store was originally planned to open in November last year, but the release was delayed for certain reasons.

U.S. media: OpenAI pays media companies $1-5 million annually to use news articles to train its large language models

Qualcomm releases hybrid display head-mounted device chip, targeting Apple Vision Pro

Zuckerberg reduces Meta stock holdings again

Regulatory filings show that from November 1, 2023, to the end of the year, Zuckerberg cashed out over $400 million by selling Meta Platforms (META.O) stock.Microsoft changes PC keyboard, adds new AI key

Intel announces the establishment of new AI company "Articul8" to provide generative AI software for enterprise customers

"Wood Sister" Cathy Wood has recently started buying Tesla again

AMD announces CES 2024 speech on January 8th to discuss the future of AI PCs

Guo Mingchi: Apple iPhone 17 camera may be significantly upgraded

Xiaomi responds to car pre-orders: No need to follow the rhythm of daily pictures

There is a picture circulating on the internet titled "Xiaomi Car SU7 officially open for pre-orders." Wang Hua, General Manager of the Public Relations Department of Xiaomi Group, responded to this: Today's netizens are more attentive in photoshopping, but it is still fake.

Musk: Compared to car companies, Tesla is more like an AI or robotics company

Pinduoduo: Duoduo Buy Vegetables' local life business has been closed, Duoduo Buy Vegetables project is operating normally.

Alibaba's Southeast Asian flagship e-commerce platform Lazada begins a new round of layoffs

Insiders revealed that employees at all levels in all Southeast Asian markets have been affected, with Singapore being the most affected.

Macro: Taking you to see the world

In December, the ADP employment report in the United States recorded 164,000 jobs, reaching a new high since August 2023.

Deutsche Bank: Expects the Fed to gradually unwind quantitative tightening starting in June

The Fed will gradually unwind its quantitative tightening policy starting in June, while also cutting interest rates. The soft landing of the U.S. economy will continue until 2025.

US media: Several companies' Bitcoin spot ETFs are very close to approval

Sources said that Bitcoin spot ETFs are "very close" to receiving approval from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and "several" companies will be approved. Specific notifications are expected to be announced tomorrow (Friday).

Hong Kong to launch over 110 digital government and smart city initiatives to accelerate digital economic development

Financial Secretary of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, Paul Chan, stated that Hong Kong must actively promote the development of the digital economy, "If we don't move forward quickly, we will fall far behind." The government will promote the development of the digital economy from five aspects: improving digital economic policies, governance and implementation, accelerating digital infrastructure construction, promoting orderly flow and use of data security, accelerating digital transformation, and vigorously cultivating talents.

Bridgewater's flagship hedge fund Pure Alpha lost 7.6% last year

Bridgewater's Pure Alpha II hedge fund incurred all of these losses in the last two months of 2023, when the global bond market experienced the largest two-month decline since at least 1990. The All Weather fund, which only goes long, had a return rate of 10.6% last year.

China's National Bureau of Statistics and 17 other departments: Support commercial trial operations of autonomous vehicles in specific areas and specific time periods.National Bureau of Statistics and other departments: The annual growth rate of the data industry will exceed 20% by the end of 2026.

Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges: Rumors of the closure of the investor interaction platform are not true. The investor interaction platform is operating normally.

Listed companies have slightly adjusted the time for replying to investors on the interaction platform, changing from continuous real-time replies to responding during non-trading hours. The media reported that this is mainly to avoid misinterpretation and transmission of information by listed companies during trading hours, which may cause abnormal fluctuations in stock trading.