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August 9th - Dong Lijuan, Chief Statistician of the Urban Division of the National Bureau of Statistics, stated that the national CPI rose 0.5% year-on-year, maintaining a moderate increase. The year-on-year CPI increase was 0.5 percentage points lower than the previous month, mainly due to the slower increase in gasoline prices. Gasoline prices rose 1.0%, a decrease of 16.0 percentage points from the previous month, reducing its upward impact on the CPI by approximately 0.45 percentage points, thus driving the energy price increase down to 0.6%. Excluding energy, industrial consumer goods prices rose 1.5%, a decrease of 0.2 percentage points from the previous month, contributing approximately 0.37 percentage points to the year-on-year CPI increase. Among these, prices for gold jewelry, personal care products, and household appliances rose by 24.6%, 1.7%, and 0.2% respectively, all with slower increases, contributing a combined approximately 0.13 percentage points to the year-on-year CPI increase; while prices for computers, tablets, and mobile phones rose by 17.4%, 17.2%, and 8.5% respectively.August 9th - Dong Lijuan, Chief Statistician of the Urban Division of the National Bureau of Statistics, stated that on a month-on-month basis, the national CPI decreased by 0.1%, a narrowing of 0.2 percentage points compared to the previous month. Fluctuations in international market prices led to a 10.7% decrease in domestic gasoline prices, a larger decline than the previous months 5.8 percentage points, contributing to a month-on-month decrease in CPI of approximately 0.35 percentage points. Artificial intelligence is driving the upgrading of consumer electronics products, increasing demand and prices for related products. Tablet computers, computers, and mobile phones saw price increases of 11.3%, 5.5%, and 1.0% respectively, contributing a combined 0.03 percentage point to the month-on-month CPI increase. In the services sector, increased summer travel demand led to price increases of 7.2%, 6.5%, 4.2%, and 3.6% for travel agency fees, hotel accommodations, airfares, and transportation rentals respectively, contributing a combined 0.10 percentage point to the month-on-month CPI increase.Chinas July CPI annual rate will be released in ten minutes.Chinas July CPI annual rate will be released in ten minutes.On August 9th, regarding Fridays unexpectedly negative US non-farm payroll data, Rick Reid, Chief Investment Officer of BlackRocks Global Fixed Income division, stated that last months weaker-than-expected employment data reflects the "productivity revolution" of the artificial intelligence era. He believes the decline in non-farm payrolls reflects that US companies are learning how to expand output without increasing the number of employees. He said, "I dont think adjusting the overnight federal funds rate will really solve the problem—weve seen this before… I just think that raising rates now doesnt make much sense."

New FTX chief says bankrupt crypto exchange could restart

Skylar Shaw

Jan 20, 2023 11:43

According to Chief Executive Officer John Ray, the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX is considering ways to resurrect its operations. He made the announcement to the Wall Street Journal on Thursday.


According to Ray, who took over the company's leadership in November, a task group has been established to look at reviving FTX.com, the organization's primary international exchange.


The CEO also said in an interview with the Journal that he would research if resurrecting FTX's international exchange would generate more value for the company's clients than his team could get by simply selling the platform or liquidating its assets.


Following the news, FTT, the native token of FTX, increased by around 30%.


I'm relieved Mr. Ray is now only pledging to restart the exchange after months of blocking such attempts! Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and former CEO of FTX, said in a tweet.


Bankman-Fried said, "I'm still waiting for him to eventually acknowledge FTX US is solvent and return clients' money.


An inquiry for comment from Reuters was not immediately answered by an attorney representing FTX.


Bankman-Fried is accused of robbing the exchange's users of billions of dollars to settle debts accrued by his cryptocurrency-focused hedge fund, Alameda Research. He's denied the allegations of fraud.


Customer money' future, however, is still unknown. In a note to creditors earlier this week, FTX said that since declaring bankruptcy in November, hackers had stolen nearly $415 million in cryptocurrency from its worldwide and American exchanges.