US stock market: On Friday Eastern Time, the three major U.S. stock indexes fell collectively, with the Nasdaq and S&P 500 falling for four consecutive days. As of the close, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 4.81 points to 36231.66 points, a drop of 0.01%;

US stock market: On Friday, Eastern Time, the three major US stock indexes fell collectively, with the Nasdaq and S&P 500 falling for four consecutive days. As of the close, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 4.81 points to 36231.66 points, a drop of 0.01%; the Nasdaq fell 144.96 points to 14935.90 points, a drop of 0.96%; the S&P 500 fell 19.02 points to 4677.03 points, a drop of 0.41%.

On the market, new energy vehicle stocks rose and fell, Tesla fell 3.54%, Xiaopeng Motors fell 3.45%, LUCID GROUP rose 9.84%, and Ideal Auto rose 2.82%. Most of the popular Chinese stocks closed higher, with Pinduoduo rising by more than 7%, while Alibaba, NetEase, Tencent Music and JD.com all rose by more than 2%. The semiconductor sector fell collectively, with Xilinx falling by more than 5%, with TSMC falling by 3.87%, and Nvidia falling by 3.30%. Financial stocks strengthened, with American International Group, Bank of America and Wells Fargo all rising more than 2%.

European stock market: On Friday, European time, major European stock indexes rose and fell. As of the close, the 100 stock average price index of the Financial Times in the UK closed at 7485.28 points, up 34.91 points from the previous trading day, up 0.47%; the CAC40 index of the Paris Stock Market in France closed at 7219.48 points, down 30.18 points from the previous trading day, down 0.42%; the DAX index of the Frankfurt Stock Market in Germany closed at 15947.74 points, down 104.29 points from the previous trading day, down 0.65%.

Commodity Market: On Friday, Eastern Time, international oil prices closed slightly lower. As of the close, New York's February crude oil futures closed down $0.56, a drop of 0.70%, at $78.90 per barrel, with a cumulative increase of 4.90% this week. Brent's March crude oil futures closed down $0.24, or 0.29%, at $81.75 per barrel, up more than 5.10% this week. International gold prices rose. As of the close, the most active trading price of the gold futures market in the New York Mercantile Exchange rose by $8.2 on the 7th from the previous trading day, closing at $1,797.4 per ounce, an increase of 0.46%.

The following is a summary of important information in the global market:

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The number of new non-agricultural employment in the United States in December last year was lower than expected

Data released by the U.S. Department of Labor on the 7th showed that the U.S. unemployment rate in December 2021 fell by 0.3 percentage points month-on-month to 3.9%, but the number of new employment in the non-agricultural sector was only 199,000, far lower than the general market expectations. The market generally expects that the continued decline in unemployment rate will dispel some Fed officials' concerns and push the Fed to raise the federal funds rate as early as March this year.

The US Food and Drug Administration shortened the interval between the Moderna vaccine's enhanced vaccination to 5 months

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) revised its emergency use authorization recommendations for the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine on January 7 local time, shortening the interval between the injection of the enhanced shot and the interval after complete vaccination to 5 months. This suggestion is consistent with the department's recommendation for the enhanced shot of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.

The first major Wall Street bank to implement "vaccine or lose work" guidelines. It will implement

from January 14. According to reports, Citigroup has notified office employees to implement mandatory vaccine guidelines, which is also the first bank among the six major Wall Street banks to take action. It is reported that the bank has notified employees that if the vaccine guidelines are not met (and no exemption) on January 14, they will enter a state of unpaid leave and the employment contract will be terminated at the end of January.

The factor that made all sectors of the U.S. stock market rise together is dissipating: the real interest rate of U.S. bonds has changed

The focus of Wall Street has always been on the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield, which broke through the 2021 high in the first week of trading this year alone. George Saravelos, head of global basic credit strategy at Deutsche Bank, wrote: "We argued last year that the most important problem facing the market in 2022 is the prospect of real yields. Low real interest rates have been the 'adhesive' that keep the major sectors higher." But as real interest rates rise, the U.S. stock market is diverging.

Rate discussion minutes "release the eagle" scares the market? Investors still believe that the Fed will provide a guarantee for

It is reported that the minutes of the Fed's December meeting showed that Fed officials have begun to discuss detailed balance sheet reduction and are expected to be implemented soon. But supported by the "Fed put" (Fed put), investors and traders are accustomed to buying on dips.Because they believe that once the U.S. stock market falls sharply, the Federal Reserve will intervene. For U.S. stock bulls, the Federal Reserve's bottoming out is equivalent to holding a put option.

German commodity import and export volume increased month-on-month in November last year

Data released by the German Federal Bureau of Statistics on the 7th showed that after working days and seasonal adjustments, Germany's commodity export volume and import volume rose month-on-month for the second consecutive month in November 2021, with an increase of 1.7% and 3.3% respectively. Data also shows that China was Germany's largest source of imports that month, with Germany's imports from China reaching 14.1 billion euros, up 29.8% year-on-year; Germany's exports to China reached 8.9 billion euros.

Overview of the foreign market

US stocks fell collectively, and the Nasdaq fell nearly 1%! Financial stocks strengthened against the market

On Friday, Eastern Time, the three major U.S. stock indexes closed lower across the board, with the Nasdaq and S&P 500 falling for four consecutive days. As of the close, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 4.81 points to 36231.66 points, a drop of 0.01%; the Nasdaq fell 144.96 points to 14935.90 points, a drop of 0.96%; the S&P 500 fell 19.02 points to 4677.03 points, a drop of 0.41%. On the market, new energy vehicle stocks rose and fell, with Tesla falling 3.54%, Xiaopeng Motors falling 3.45%, LUCID GROUP rising 9.84%, and Ideal Auto rose 2.82%. Most of the popular Chinese stocks closed higher, with Pinduoduo rising by more than 7%, while Alibaba, NetEase, Tencent Music and JD.com all rose by more than 2%. The semiconductor sector fell collectively, with Xilinx falling by more than 5%, with TSMC falling by 3.87%, and Nvidia falling by 3.30%. Financial stocks strengthened, with American International Group, Bank of America and Wells Fargo all rising more than 2%.

Major European stock indexes rose and fell. The FTSE 100 index closed up 0.47%

European time on Friday, major European stock indexes rose and fell. As of the close, the 100 stock average price index of the Financial Times in London Stock Exchange closed at 7485.28 points, up 34.91 points from the previous trading day, up 0.47%; the CAC40 index of the Paris Stock Market in France closed at 7219.48 points, down 30.18 points from the previous trading day, down 0.42%; the DAX index of the Frankfurt Stock Market in Germany closed at 15947.74 points, down 104.29 points from the previous trading day, down 0.65%.

Most popular Chinese stocks rose, Alibaba rose by more than 9% this week,

On Friday, Eastern Time, most popular Chinese stocks rose, Alibaba rose by more than 2%, and this week, raising by more than 9%. On January 4, local time, according to the 13-F document for the fourth quarter released by Daily Journal Corporation, a subsidiary of Buffett's "golden partner" and Berkshire Hathaway vice chairman Charlie Munger, the company, by the end of 2021, the company held 602,060 Alibaba's ADRs, almost doubled its holdings of 302,060 shares at the end of September. Beike and Tuya Smart rose by more than 10%, Pinduoduo and Vipshop rose by more than 7%, and NetEase Youdao and Kingsoft Cloud rose by more than 6%.

Most large-scale technology stocks in the US stock market fell, chip stocks generally fell,

On Friday, Eastern Time, most large-scale technology stocks in the US stock market fell, Netflix fell more than 2%, Google, Amazon, IBM, Meta followed suit; Apple and Microsoft rose slightly. Chip stocks generally fell, Xilinx fell by more than 5%, Sun and Moonlight and Lianhua Electronics fell by more than 4%, ON Semiconductor fell by 4%, Texas Instruments, Applied Materials, TSMC, and Nvidia fell by more than 3%, Qualcomm, Broadcom, SJ, NXP Semiconductor and GF fell by more than 2%.

(Article source: Oriental Wealth Research Center)

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