As China scales and standardizes nationwide compute infrastructure, multiple suppliers have announced permanent cuts to compute prices. Model vendors DeepSeek and Xiaomi’s MiMo posted the largest reductions, as much as nearly 99%, sharply lowering costs for high-frequency Q&A, web design and coding workloads and enabling lighter, routine AI applications to run at much lower cost.

With the Iran war fuelling global inflation, the ECB is expected to raise policy rates by 25bp next week, making it the first major G7 central bank to tighten. Markets price at least one further hike this year. By contrast, the BOC may hold, and the Fed and BoE are seen likely to remain on hold this month as they assess the conflict’s impact. ECB officials say the move aims to prevent inflation becoming entrenched, but further tightening will weigh on an already-weak euro-area economy. ECB President Lagarde may signal next steps at the post-decision press conference. The ECB will publish quarterly economic projections that model alternative energy-shock scenarios.

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