Economics and Finance:
- The China Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) rebounded, with the January PMI for the manufacturing sector at 49.2%, a rise of 0.2 percentage points from the previous month.
- The IPO industry chain is widely questioned by investors, with some brokerages suspected of sponsoring the listing of substandard assets.
- Saudi Aramco has cancelled its oil and gas drilling expansion plans, causing a significant drop in European oil and gas exploration stocks.
- European Central Bank President Lagarde warns against the threat of "Trump 2.0" and suggests strengthening the European financial markets.
Financial Markets:
- The Dow Jones Industrial Average reached record highs for the second consecutive day, driven by strong quarterly results from major tech companies and data from the US labor market.
- Over a thousand A-share companies have disclosed their performance forecasts for 2023, with the total number of companies having announced their annual performance forecasts exceeding 2700.
- Six payment companies including Yinshe Payment, Guotong Xingyi, Qian Dai Bao Payment, Wangfujing Payment have been fined by the central bank for violations of laws and regulations.
Corporate Performance:
- Microsoft's second fiscal quarter revenue and intelligent cloud income exceeded expectations, particularly in terms of growth in the cloud computing sector.
- Google's fourth-quarter earnings fell short of expectations, with its share price falling more than 4% in after-hours trading.
- AMD's performance exceeded expectations amid accelerated demand for high-end chips.
Social Events:
- Myanmar police have extradited 6 leaders of a telecommunication fraud gang and another 4 major criminal suspects to the Chinese public security organs, who were successfully escorted back to China on Tuesday evening.
- In the event of the "a 3-billion-yuan quant private fund," Mao Wei, the actual controller of Panjing Investment, was taken away by the police.
