Selected morning news of the Financial Associated Press on June 15

[selected morning news of the Financial Associated Press on June 15] Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin announced on the 14th that US Secretary of State Anthony Lincoln will visit China from June 18 to 19, as agreed by China and the United States. 2. The Fed suspended interest rate hikes as scheduled, pressing the "pause button" for the first time since the aggressive rate-raising cycle began in March last year. But the hawk bitmap shows that officials expect interest rates to rise by another 50 basis points this year. Powell said almost all committee members expected the rate hike to continue. 3. On June 12, local time, the US Department of Commerce announced that some Chinese entities would be included in the "entity list" of export controls. A spokesman for the Ministry of Commerce said that China firmly opposes this. China will take necessary measures to resolutely safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese enterprises. Yuan Da, deputy secretary-general of the National Development and Reform Commission, said on the 14th that he would study and introduce policies and measures to attract foreign investment and reasonably reduce the negative list of foreign investment access. 5. The head of the relevant departments and bureaus of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Affairs said recently that at the end of 2022, the total working-age population in China was about 880 million, and the average length of education of the working-age population reached 10.9 years. Our demographic dividend has not disappeared, and new talent dividends are taking shape. 6. The latest data from the Silicon Industry Association show that the silicon market continues to expand its decline this week, basically falling near the cost line, and some enterprises have lost money and stopped production. This week, the domestic N-type material cycle-to-ring ratio decreased by 22.52%, and the single crystal compact material cycle-to-ring ratio decreased by 24.5%. 7. Chen Shihua, deputy secretary-general of the China Automobile Association, said on the 13th that the current demand momentum in the domestic market is still not strong, and the state needs to continue to introduce some measures to accelerate the release of consumption potential. While encouraging the development of new energy vehicles, we should also pay attention to the traditional fuel vehicle market and give some support. 8. Data released by the National Energy Administration on the 14th showed that in May, the electricity consumption of the whole society was 722.2 billion kilowatt-hours, an increase of 7.4 percent over the same period last year. 9. The National Development and Reform Commission held a meeting a few days ago to arrange the work of welcoming the peak of energy to spend the summer in 2023, which is required to ensure a stable and orderly supply of energy and electricity for the peak and summer. 10. South African electricity Minister Ramo Howpa will travel to China this week to meet with six large Chinese solar equipment manufacturers, hoping to ensure a reliable supply of solar panels in South Africa at a time of power shortages. 11. Microsoft founder Bill Gates tweeted on June 14 that he had arrived in Beijing, his first arrival in China since 2019. 12. Kunlun Wanwei announced that Star Group, the company's holding subsidiary, intends to issue shares to acquire all shares of Singularity AI. 13. Hongbo shares announced that 13.98% of the company's shares held by the controlling shareholders were judicially frozen. 14. CityCity Xiangjiang disclosed the announcement of abnormal fluctuations in stock trading, and the market spread company will provide Tesla FSD with false information about the relevant computing power center. 15, Tianfu Communication issued a stock price change announcement, optical device products can continue to obtain CPO customer orders in the future there is a greater uncertainty. 16. The three major indexes of US stocks closed mixed on Wednesday, with the Dow down 0.68%, the NASDAQ up 0.39%, the S & P 500 up 0.08%, hot Chinese stocks up generally, the NASDAQ China Golden Dragon Index up 2.34%, ideal car up more than 7%, and Xiaopeng Motor up more than 5%. In terms of commodity futures, WTI July crude oil futures closed down 1.66%, while Brent August crude oil futures closed down 1.47%. 17. Us PPI fell more than expected in May from a month earlier, the smallest year-on-year increase since the end of 2020, highlighting the continued easing in supply-side inflation. 18. The European Parliament voted to add more security controls to generative artificial intelligence, and OPENAI and Google need to evaluate tools such as GPT-4. 19. The International Energy Agency said that global oil demand growth will slow significantly in the next few years, and oil consumption growth next year is expected to be only half that of the previous two years.