B[The domestic 3A "Shadow Blade Zero" will be launched soon, and pre-order revenue has exceeded 43 million US dollars] On October 28, the domestic 3A action game "Shadow Blade Zero" will be officially unlocked on October 29. On October 28, Liang Qiwei, the founder and game producer of Lingyoufang, published a long article on his personal Weibo, reviewing the creative trajectory spanning twenty years from the independent game "Rain Blood" to the present, and defined "Shadow Blade Zero" as a battle where the team "exerted all their strength". After the domestic 3A track experienced the market verification of "Black Myth: Wukong", the release performance of "Shadow Blade Zero" is being placed under double scrutiny of capital and industry.
According to estimates from data analysis agency Alinea Analytics, as of October 28, "Shadow Blade Zero" has had about 850,000 pre-orders across all platforms, with pre-order revenue of about $43 million; of which the Steam platform contributed about 70% of the revenue, and PS5 accounted for about 26%. Taking the 70 days before release as a comparison point, its pre-sale sales during the same period were approximately 73% of "Black Myth: Wukong". (Shanghai Securities News) A[Overnight global news you need to know on Thursday: The Federal Reserve raised interest rates for the first time in three years, Warsh reiterated that inflation is too high and has lasted for too long, Trump once again urged the Federal Reserve to quickly lower interest rates, and the Dow hit a new closing low since mid-June]
1. The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by 25 basis points, raising the benchmark interest rate to 3.75%-4.00%; this is the first interest rate increase since July 2023.
2. Warsh reiterated that inflation is too high and has lasted for too long, with no significant improvement in summer data. Indicates that the Federal Reserve has decided to cancel part of its easing policy.
3. The median of the Fed dot plot shows that there will be one more interest rate increase in 2026. But after Warsh spoke, traders increased their bets on the Fed raising interest rates twice before the end of the year.
4. Traders predict that the probability of the Federal Reserve raising interest rates in October is about 50%.
5. After the Federal Reserve raised interest rates, many large U.S. banks such as JPMorgan Chase raised their prime lending rates to 7%. The new interest rates took effect from Thursday local time.
6. Trump said that U.S. interest rates should be at or below 1%, and once again urged the Federal Reserve to quickly lower interest rates.
7. Central banks of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman and other countries have announced interest rate hikes of 25 basis points. Brazil lowered its benchmark lending rate by 25 basis points to 13.75%.
8. The minutes of the Bank of Canada’s monetary policy meeting showed that if high oil prices spread to other goods and services, interest rates may need to be raised.
9. Saudi Arabia is said to be seeking to restore half of the delivery capacity of key oil pipelines within days.
10. U.S. Energy Secretary Wright talked about the shipping volume in the Strait of Hormuz, saying that the seven-day average is 11 million barrels per day.
11. The USITC voted to launch an investigation into some electronic devices containing specific audio technologies. Apple, Samsung and Google were listed as parties under investigation.
12. Multiple banks provided $22 billion in chip-related loans to Blackstone Group and Google parent company Alphabet.
13. NVIDIA announced the establishment of an alliance with Emerald AI and Google to jointly promote the construction of flexible AI data centers.
14. It is reported that Google and DeepMind have established a research institute to explore general artificial intelligence.
15. Amazon plans to build power supply equipment facilities for Fastnet submarine cables in Maryland.
16. OpenAI integrates advertising platforms with HubSpot and Shopify.
17. Microsoft said it is investigating the issue of users being unable to access some Microsoft 365 services.
18. Drone delivery company Zipline is reported to be negotiating a new round of financing, planning to raise approximately US$1 billion with a valuation target of US$20 billion.
19. The three major U.S. stock indexes collectively closed down, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling 1.21%, a new closing low since mid-June; the S&P 500 Index falling 0.44%, and the Nasdaq Composite Index falling 0.01%. The KBW Bank Index closed down 2.9%, its biggest drop since February. SpaceX rose more than 5%, and Musk once again signaled that Tesla and SpaceX may merge.
20. The settlement price of international crude oil futures closed sharply. WTI crude oil futures October contract fell 3.21%, Brent crude oil futures November contract fell 2.69%.
21. COMEX gold futures fell 0.7% to US$4,302.5 per ounce; COMEX silver futures fell by 0.68% to US$63.42 per ounce.
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