1) Japan’s GDP revised sharply higher, grew 2.7% in the first quarter on robust spending.
得益于强劲的消费,日本第一季度GDP大幅上修,增长2.7%。
2) US weekly jobless claims race to 1-1/2-year high, economists urge caution.
美国上周因失业而申请救济的人数升至近一年半来的高位,经济学家敦促要谨慎了。
不过,美国当前的失业率仍然很低,仅为3.7%。
3) Here’s what Mark Zuckerberg thinks about Apple’s Vision Pro.
扎克伯格是怎么看苹果Vision Pro头显的?
他认为苹果的头显在技术上没有什么大的突破,都是Meta公司已经玩过的。他也认为两家公司对于头显的应用目标不同。苹果的做法并不是他想要的。
Apple’s device didn’t present any major breakthroughs in technology that Meta hadn’t “already explored” and that its vision for how people will use the device is “not the one that I want.”
4) Europe"s economy enters technical recession as households struggle with cost-of-living crisis.
欧洲经济陷入技术性衰退,民众入不敷出,生活成本大幅提高。
连续两个季度经济下滑,即为技术性衰退。
That means the eurozone endured two consecutive quarters of decline, which is one definition of recession often used in political and economic discussions, dubbed a “technical” recession.
5) Air pollution in US from wildfire smoke is worst in recent recorded history.
自有记录以来,美国这两天的烟尘暴当属最严重的了。
这些烟尘很多是从加拿大吹过去的,但美国最近自己也有不少森林野火。