Finland’s trade deficit in August reached 1.145 billion euros.

According to Zhitong Finance APP, TSMC (TSM.US) reported a 51% year-on-year increase in quarterly revenue, which is a positive signal for investors trying to determine whether global AI infrastructure construction can be sustained.

According to Zhitong Finance APP, Centinel Spine, a well-known US medical device manufacturer, disclosed in its US stock market IPO filing submitted on Wednesday local time that its revenue increased significantly by 42% in the first half of the year. Centinel Spine's IPO application provides a case study for global investors focused on medical devices, demonstrating how technology commercialization, revenue growth, and profitability improvement can advance simultaneously.

(1) Elara Capital believes that following a rate hike similar to that expected in December, the likelihood of the Reserve Bank of India raising rates by 25 basis points in February next year is increasing. (2) Garima Kapoor, Deputy Head of Research, stated that the main driving factors include overall rising inflation and an upward trend in core inflation, suggesting that price pressures are expanding. (3) In the report, she noted that reduced rainfall has increased the risk of food inflation, while businesses are increasingly passing rising crude oil, commodity, and freight costs on to consumers. (4) Resilient domestic demand may accelerate the transmission of price increases during the festival period. (5) In addition, further tightening of monetary policy by other central banks, including the Federal Reserve and the Bank of Japan, is limiting the policy flexibility of the Reserve Bank of India.

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