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[Overnight global news you need to know on Tuesday: Federal Reserve Hammaker said interest rates need to be raised further; Russia and the United States have begun negotiations on a diesel deal; Meta launches the Muse Wonder AI model with "cutting-edge capabilities"]
1. Fed Hammaker said that interest rates need to be raised further; it prefers smaller and more frequent interest rate hikes.
2. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Novak said that Russian and American companies have begun negotiations on diesel supply transactions; Russia may supply 3.5 million tons of diesel to the global market per month in the future, returning to previous levels.
3. Majid Nuzaili, spokesman for the Yemeni government forces, issued a statement on the 12th saying that the government forces killed approximately 950 Houthi armed personnel in military operations in the past 24 hours.
4. Yahya Saraya, the military spokesman of the Yemeni Houthi armed forces, issued a statement saying that on the evening of the same day, the Yemeni Houthi armed forces used a ballistic missile to attack the King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, the Saudi capital, and claimed that the missile accurately hit the target.
5. Qatar Airways issued a travel warning and announced that it would temporarily suspend flights to and from Riyadh and Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
6. Meta said that after 14 months of hard work, the new Muse model has reached the forefront of AI. This new artificial intelligence model called Muse Wonder has "cutting-edge capabilities."
7. Intel is accelerating the promotion of open infrastructure for the era of intelligent AI and has begun to provide GPU D series samples to customers.
8. NVIDIA and Cisco jointly launched a new pluggable optical module form factor USFP (Ultra-Dense Small Pluggable), aiming to expand the network scale of AI factories.
9. Commodity trader Trafigura announced the signing of a binding 10-year offtake agreement with US lithium technology startup EnergyX, involving 100,000 tons of battery-grade lithium products from projects in the United States and Chile.
10. The American supermarket chain Kroger plans to lay off more than one-third of its headquarters employees to simplify operating procedures and enhance market competitiveness.
11. The three major U.S. stock indexes closed with mixed gains. The Dow rose 0.38%, the Nasdaq fell 0.44%, and the S&P 500 fell 0.06%. The storage sector weakened, with SanDisk falling nearly 6%, and SK Hynix and AMD falling more than 4%.
12. The settlement price of WTI crude oil futures was US$93.74/barrel, an increase of US$1.89, or 2.06%. Brent crude oil futures settled at $106.65 per barrel, up $1.93, or 1.84%.
13. COMEX gold futures closed down 0.48% at US$4,195.9 per ounce; COMEX silver futures fell by 0.78% at US$60.57 per ounce.
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