1. The leading American artificial meat company, surpassing Meat, has reached a cooperation agreement with US fast food giant McDonald’s, surpassing Meat will become the preferred supplier of artificial meat burgers to McDonald’s and will provide McDonald’s with artificial meat products in the next three years. In addition, the two sides will also cooperate to develop new substitutes for pork, chicken and eggs.

2. British Chancellor of the Exchequer Sunak: the British government will announce an additional allocation of 5 billion pounds in this week’s budget statement to help companies hit hard by the blockade of the epidemic. Shops, bars, clubs, hotels, restaurants, gyms and hair salons will be one of nearly 700000 companies eligible for a new direct cash subsidy of up to 18000 pounds.

3. US Food and Drug Administration: Johnson COVID-19 vaccine is approved for use in the United States. Emergency use authorization for a single dose of COVID-19 vaccine has been granted to people aged 18 and above. This is the third COVID-19 vaccine approved for emergency use in the United States after Pfizer vaccine and Modena vaccine.

4. The SEC may soon re-evaluate the listing criteria of major exchanges or block the listing of speculative penny stocks on Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange (stocks with a share price of less than US$5). The SEC believes that these companies have little or no earnings and are highly speculative. As many as 1000 stocks on the combined New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq list meet the SEC definition of pennies.

5.On February 24, local time, Queen Elizabeth II held a video conference with British government officials and medical experts. At the meeting, the Queen urged the British public to be vaccinated against COVID-19, believing that vaccination is a kind of protection. “it was so fast that it didn’t hurt at all,” she said of her vaccination seven weeks ago. “

6.Hundreds of people have been kidnapped after attacks on girls’ schools in Nigeria. In the early morning of February 26, a girls’ school was attacked by militants in Zamfara state, Nigeria, and at least 300 students were kidnapped and missing. Some media said the gangsters came by car, pretending to be government security personnel, forcing the students to get on the bus and leave, but some witnesses said the militants arrived at the school on foot. At present, the government has confirmed that the incident is true, saying that they have sent security forces to search for militants and rescue kidnapped students. 

7.The COVID-19 vaccine provided by the Chinese government to Egypt, Algeria and the Arab League has arrived smoothly in recent days, which is the first batch of vaccine assistance provided by China to countries and organizations in West Asia and North Africa, Zhai Jun, the Chinese government’s special envoy on the Middle East issue, said on February 26th. In the next step, China will also provide vaccine assistance to Iraq, Palestine, Syria and other regional countries, contributing to helping these countries win the final victory in the fight against the epidemic.

8.Japan Automobile Dealers Association: Japanese car sales fell 2.2% in February from a year earlier, the first decline in five months due to a global shortage of chips. But the industry expects pent-up demand to boost car sales once semiconductor supplies allow carmakers such as Nissan, Honda and Subaru to restart their production lines. 

9.On March 1, a French court ruled on the corruption case of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Sarkozy was sentenced to three years in prison with a two-year reprieve, one of which was not suspended. Sarkozy became the second former French president to be convicted after Chirac and will become the first former president to serve a prison sentence. 

10.US five-year inflation expectations have risen to 2.34 per cent, the highest level since May 2011. Us inflation may rise to more than 3 per cent from the second quarter and then hover at high levels.Inflationary pressures in the US are likely to be the biggest since 2008, and this round of Fed easing will exit much faster than it did during the financial crisis. Us bond interest rates may maintain the upward direction, and the dollar index also has the momentum to rebound, which has a greater impact on the global financial markets.