1. China, the United States, Germany, Japan and South Korea are the five major sources of assistive technology innovation, according to the World intellectual property Organization 2021 Technology Trends report released by the World intellectual property Organization (WIPO) on the 23rd.

2.The Fed is expected to start raising interest rates in 2022, and the first step in withdrawing easing will be to reduce the Fed’s asset purchases; it will not support the use of monetary policy to distort the pricing of the Treasury yield curve. The yield on the 10-year Treasury is expected to rise further to 1.75%. 2%. In addition, due to supply problems, oil prices will rise sharply in 2021, supply problems will be resolved in 2022, and inflation will fall in 2022.

3. The New York Times reported on the 24th that the European Union has drafted a draft emergency regulation that will significantly reduce the export of COVID-19 vaccine produced by the European Union in the next six weeks, in order to alleviate the shortage of vaccines within the European Union, which will seriously affect COVID-19 vaccine imports from Britain and other countries.

 4.At present, China has completed the approval of the RCEP, that is, the regional comprehensive economic partnership agreement, and has become the first country to ratify the RCEP agreement. In addition, Thailand has ratified the agreement. All members of the RCEP have indicated that they will ratify the agreement by the end of 2021 and push for it to enter into force on January 1, 2022. 

5.Fed Kaplan: the Fed is expected to start raising interest rates in 2022, and the first step in withdrawing easing will be to reduce the Fed’s asset purchases; it will not support the use of monetary policy to distort the pricing of the Treasury yield curve. The yield on the 10-year Treasury is expected to rise further to 1.75% and 2%. In addition, due to supply problems, oil prices will rise sharply in 2021, supply problems will be resolved in 2022, and inflation will fall in 2022. 

 6.The Baltic dry index fell 2.07% to 2271. The Baltic dry index, an important indicator of commodity market movements, recently rose to its highest level in more than a year. This echoes the rising trend of the CRB index, which covers a wide range of commodities. According to the industry, many factors resonate to promote the Baltic dry bulk index to rise sharply. For now, this trend will continue, with a stronger bull market in commodities.

7.According to the Syrian State News Agency, since the early morning of the 23rd, the US military has used 300 tankers to transport stolen crude oil out of Syria; dozens of similar US military convoys have transported stolen crude oil in the past month. It is understood that the United States controls 90 percent of oil and gas resources in northeastern Syria. The Syrian oil minister said the United States and its allies are like pirates, causing more than US$92 billion in losses to the Syrian oil industry. The Syrian government has repeatedly accused the US military of illegally occupying and stealing Syrian oil resources, but to no avail.

8.Pollster YouGov surveyed 8000 people in seven European countries from March 12 to 18. The results showed that confidence in the safety of the AstraZeneca vaccine continued to decline in Germany, France, Italy and Spain. Less than 1/3 of respondents thought the AstraZeneca vaccine was safe.

9.SEMI:North American semiconductor equipment manufacturers shipped US$3.135 billion, up 3.2% from a month earlier and 32% year-on-year. It is expected that global fabs will increase equipment spending by about US$10 billion a year in 2020-2022, eventually surpassing the US$80 billion mark, reaching $83.6 billion and reaching a record high in 2022.