Key News
1. US February PPI rose 3.4% year-on-year, exceeding market expectations of 2.9% and reaching a new high since February last year.
Individual Stock News
1. Atour (ATAT.O): Expects retail revenue to grow by 25%-30% year-on-year in 2026.
2. Market news: Samsung will explore the possibility of wafer foundry cooperation with AMD (AMD.O).
3. BHP Billiton (BHP.N): Current Americas President Brandon Craig will be appointed as the company's next CEO.
4. Samsung Electronics confirmed plans to begin mass production of Tesla (TSLA.O) chips at its Texas factory starting in the second half of 2027.
5. Amazon (AMZN.O) CEO Andy Jassy stated at an internal all-hands meeting that he expects artificial intelligence to drive its cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services (AWS), to $600 billion in annual sales, doubling its previous forecast.
6. BP (BP.N): (Regarding negotiations at the Whiting refinery) Employees represented by the United Steelworkers union should not go to work at the refinery after March 17; a strike notice has been issued to the union, effective at 12:00 AM on March 19.
7. Microsoft (MSFT.O) is considering legal action against a $50 billion deal between Amazon (AMZN.O) and OpenAI, as the deal may violate its exclusive cloud services partnership agreement with the ChatGPT developer.
8. Weibo (WB.O): Fourth-quarter net revenue was $473.3 million, a year-on-year increase of 3.6%, exceeding expectations.
9. Boss Zhipin (BZ.N) announced that its operating revenue for the fourth quarter of 2025 is 2.079 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 14.0%.
