RBNZ expects elevated inf to persist.

UBS China internet research head Fang Jinchong said at a Shenzhen briefing that the China internet sector is down about 20% YTD; offshore investors have moved from underweight toward neutral but remain cautious on H2 macro and cash flow. He estimates aggregate profit expectations for major internet incumbents have fallen from roughly 680bn yuan at the start of the year to about 600bn yuan in August, driven by higher AI spending, user-acquisition promotions and increased R&D. He said AI has materially reduced production costs in advertising and short-form dramas but so far shows limited revenue conversion. On US–China AI, he estimates the model-capability gap has narrowed to about 3–6 months: China leads on applications and ecosystem, the US on base models and hardware. Valuation dispersion between large and small firms reflects the industry cycle, with pricing power currently concentrated upstream but likely to shift back to downstream players with users and scenarios as upstream capacity is released over coming years. He favors cloud vendors, large-model companies and online gaming.

澳大利亞S&P/ASX200指數9月2日（週三）開盤下跌98.00點，跌幅1.08%，報8968.70點。