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2025-09-17 Wednesday

2025-09-19

10:58:37

Oil Prices Remain Steady as Markets Await the Federal Reserve's Interest Rate Decision. 1. Oil prices were stable in early trading on Wednesday. Following the drone attacks on Russian ports and refineries, oil prices rose over 1% on Tuesday. Market focus is now shifting to the Federal Reserve's upcoming interest rate decision, with a rate cut widely expected. 2. Brent crude futures fell slightly by 0.15% to $68.35 per barrel, while WTI futures dipped slightly by 0.12 to $64.44 per barrel. Tuesday's report that Transneft had warned Russian oil producers of possible production cuts due to the attacks sparked market concerns about supply disruptions. Meanwhile, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced plans to accelerate the phase-out of fossil fuel imports from Russia. 3. The market generally expects the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates by 25 basis points at this meeting to stimulate the economy and boost fuel demand. IG analyst Tony Sycamore noted that investors are more focused on the number of members supporting a larger rate cut and Powell's subsequent policy signals. He believes that even if the rate cut goes ahead as planned, the rebound in risky assets like crude oil is likely to be short-lived. 4. In terms of inventory, data from the American Petroleum Institute (API) showed that U.S. crude oil and gasoline inventories fell last week, while distillate inventories rose. The market is waiting for official EIA data to confirm this. According to a survey, analysts expect EIA crude oil inventories to fall by about 900,000 barrels and gasoline inventories to rise slightly.

10:43:28

[SASAC: Central SOEs have achieved a series of encouraging scientific and technological achievements, which can be described as "standing tall and standing firm"] Zhang Yuzhuo, Director of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, stated at a series of press conferences on the theme of "High-quality Completion of the 14th Five-Year Plan" held by the State Council Information Office that since the 14th Five-Year Plan, central SOEs have achieved a series of encouraging scientific and technological achievements, which can be described as "standing tall and standing firm." "Standing tall" means serving national strategic needs, creating a number of major national equipment such as the second phase of the "Deep Sea No. 1" and completing a number of major projects such as the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Channel. These "heavyweight" achievements are probably familiar to everyone. In the selection of the National Technological Invention Awards and the National Science and Technology Progress Awards held last year, central SOEs won a total of 109 awards, accounting for more than half of the total number of similar awards nationwide. "Standing firm" means filling a number of industrial technology gaps and achieving breakthroughs in fields such as integrated circuits, industrial mother machines, industrial software, and basic materials. These underlying technologies are not often promoted by us and may not be well known to everyone, but they are closely related to our lives and have effectively promoted the safe development of related industries.

10:17:52

[Zhang Yuzhuo, Director of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council: High-end, intelligent, and green development are becoming distinctive characteristics of central SOEs] On September 17, Zhang Yuzhuo, Director of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, stated at a press conference held by the State Council Information Office on the theme of "High-quality Completion of the 14th Five-Year Plan" that since the 14th Five-Year Plan, central SOEs have made new progress in building a modern industrial system. Central SOEs have adhered to their roots in the real economy, consolidated their advantages in traditional industries, nurtured the potential of emerging industries, and strived to open up new growth opportunities. On the one hand, the development of strategic emerging industries has been unprecedented. The Central SOE Industrial Renewal Initiative, the Future Industry Launch Initiative, and the Navigation Enterprise Cultivation Project have been implemented in new industrial sectors, with an average annual investment growth rate exceeding 20%. Thirty modern industrial chain leaders have actively played a supporting role and driven integration, creating a number of world-class industrial clusters in new-generation information technology, new energy, new materials, and high-end equipment. On the other hand, the pace of industrial transformation and upgrading has continued to accelerate, with special initiatives deployed, resulting in the deployment of over 800 application scenarios. Digital transformation initiatives have created 1,854 smart factories. Energy consumption per 10,000 yuan of output value and carbon dioxide emissions per 10,000 yuan of output value have decreased by 12.8% and 13.9%, respectively. Zhang Yuzhuo said that high-end, intelligent and green are becoming the distinctive features of central enterprises.

10:10:56

[Chongqing: Promote the construction of a 15-minute elderly care service circle, and achieve an 85% coverage rate of elderly care service facilities in the central urban area within three years] The General Office of the Chongqing Municipal People's Government issued the "Several Measures to Boost Consumption in Chongqing", which proposed to improve the ability of elderly care security. Raise the basic pension standards for urban and rural residents, and appropriately increase the basic pension for retirees. Implement the policy of canceling the household registration restrictions on flexible employment personnel participating in basic pension insurance at their place of employment. Carry out actions to improve basic elderly care services at home and in the community, and deepen the reform of the sustainable operation mechanism of community elderly canteens. For the purchase of home-based elderly-friendly renovation products in 2025, a subsidy of no more than 20% of the actual transaction price will be given, with a maximum subsidy of 3,000 yuan. Vigorously promote the development of integrated medical and elderly care, set up a family doctor team, and provide home visits, chronic disease management and other medical services to elderly people at home. Increase support for the care of disabled elderly people. Promote the construction of a 15-minute elderly care service circle, and achieve an 85% coverage rate of elderly care service facilities in the central urban area within three years.

09:51:19

The annual rate of JSA online job vacancies in Australia in August

Previous : -1.40% Forecast : -

Published Value -12.20%

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09:51:19

The number of JSA online job vacancies in Australia in August

Previous : 21.41 Forecast : -

Published Value 20.25

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09:51:17

The monthly rate of JSA online job vacancies in Australia in August

Previous : 0.30% Forecast : -

Published Value -4.20%

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09:07:23

[2025 National Cybersecurity Publicity Week Cybersecurity Entrepreneurs Symposium Held in Kunming] On September 15, the 2025 National Cybersecurity Publicity Week Cybersecurity Entrepreneurs Symposium was held at the Dianchi International Convention and Exhibition Center in Kunming. The meeting was chaired by Yang Jianwen, Deputy Director of the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission and Deputy Director of the National Cyberspace Administration of China. Yang Jianwen pointed out that at present, with the deep integration of the digital economy and the real economy, the demand for cybersecurity is accelerating the transformation from "compliance-driven" to "risk-driven". This is not only the core direction of industrial development, but also an inevitable choice for coping with complex network environments. It requires "three-party linkage and joint efforts." The competent industry departments should provide "real" support for industrial transformation, provide a better policy environment for cybersecurity companies, promote high-quality development of the industry, and encourage companies to participate in standard setting. Leading companies need to shoulder the responsibility of tackling "bottleneck" technologies, focus on key areas such as chips, and jointly build innovation alliances with universities and research institutes to accelerate the development of independent and controllable security chips to break the monopoly, and help small and medium-sized enterprises improve their security capabilities through "mentoring, helping and guiding". (Cyberspace Administration of China)

09:02:14

Hubei: Accelerating the Development of a National Highland for the Artificial Intelligence Industry and Focusing on Implementing "AI+" Application Scenario Demonstration Projects. On the morning of September 16th, a special training session for key city and department-level leading cadres across the province, as well as a collective (expanded) study session of the Provincial Party Committee's Theoretical Study Center Group, was held. Wang Zhonglin, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Congress, presided over the meeting and delivered a speech. He emphasized the need to seize the strategic opportunity of data-driven development of the artificial intelligence industry, strive to build a national highland for the development of the artificial intelligence industry, and provide strong support for accelerating the establishment of a key strategic fulcrum for the rise of the central region. Wang Zhonglin emphasized that we must firmly grasp the key tasks of data-driven development of artificial intelligence, focus on implementing innovation-driven leading projects, promote the concentrated efforts in advantageous fields such as deep learning general-purpose chips, storage and computing integrated AI chips, automotive-grade smart cockpit chips, and three-dimensional flash memory, break through key common technologies such as 6G networks, large-scale model infrastructure innovation, and multimodal data processing, and promote artificial intelligence innovation to achieve a leap from "following" to "leading"; focus on implementing basic support and capacity-enhancing projects, strengthen computing power, algorithms, and data support, accelerate the construction of national node projects such as the National (Wuhan) New Internet Exchange Center, build an ecologically open, application-led artificial intelligence industry public service system, and strive to create a data element flow in central China. Connect hubs and build a data-strong province; focus on implementing industrial agglomeration and cultivation projects, give full play to the powerful role of artificial intelligence in driving industrial transformation, empower traditional industries to "transform into smart and digital", the development and growth of emerging industries, and forward-looking layout of future industries, promote the in-depth and practical integration of real and digital, and provide strong support for the development of new quality productivity and the shaping of new development momentum and new advantages; focus on implementing "artificial intelligence +" application scenario demonstration projects, promote high-quality development in manufacturing fields such as high-end optical chips, metaverse, autonomous driving, and low-altitude flight, improve the governance efficiency of social fields such as government services and urban governance, and innovate new scenarios, new models, and new business formats in people's livelihood fields such as education, medical care, elderly care, and childcare, and continuously meet the people's yearning for a better life.

08:37:38

Singapore's seasonally adjusted non-oil exports NODX monthly rate for August

Previous : -6% Forecast : 0.40%

Published Value -8.90%

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08:31:05

Australia's Westpac leading indicator monthly rate for August

Previous : 0.14% Forecast : -

Published Value -0.04%

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08:30:02

Singapore's non-oil exports in August (NODX) year-on-year rate

Previous : -4.60% Forecast : 1%

Published Value -11.30%

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