🌍 G7 Celebrates 50th Anniversary Summit Focuses on Inflation, Tariffs and Central Bank Policy
Kananaskis, June 9, 2025 – As the G7 celebrates its 50th anniversary, the summit held in Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada, faces many practical challenges behind the commemoration - high global inflation, geopolitical tensions, continued tariff wars and policy differences between central banks have become the main topics of discussion at this summit.
Inflation data is the focus: Participating countries are paying close attention to the inflation data released simultaneously by the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom, especially the US CPI results released in the middle of the week, which may affect the future interest rate measures of central banks.
Tariff game continues to escalate: The high tariff dispute between the United States, Canada and the European Union over key industries such as steel and aluminum has not subsided. Against this background, the Bank of Canada remains on the sidelines, and US Treasury Secretary Bessent and other G7 finance ministers will seek coordination on non-tariff barriers.
The attitudes of central banks are clearly divided: from the Bank of Canada taking the lead in keeping interest rates at 2.75% to other countries taking a more hawkish stance to control inflation, this summit showed a major policy path divergence. The focus of central banks on the future trend of interest rates will become the focus of market attention.
Evaluation and Outlook: Although this year is an important milestone for the G7 to pass half a century, the current global economic situation is still turbulent. Leaders of various countries urgently need to find a balance between monetary policy, trade policy and geopolitics; whether they can reach a consensus in the end will affect the direction of the global economy after the summit.
🍏 Apple WWDC focuses on AI innovation to boost investor confidence
Cupertino, June 9, 2025 - Apple announced on Monday that it will focus on software optimization and AI layout at its annual developer conference (WWDC) to respond to criticism that its AI strategy has not met expectations in recent years.
AI critical moment: Apple Intelligence has slowed down since its debut last year, and the market generally questions whether it lags behind competitors such as Google and OpenAI. This conference is seen as a "turnaround" move for Apple to reaffirm its commitment to AI to developers and investors.
Update content is beginning to emerge: It is expected to launch a series of system optimizations, including iOS26 and the new design language "Solarium", and achieve functional innovation in Live translation, Markdown export, CarPlay, AirPods sleep function, etc., but the overall release rhythm is relatively mild, and hardware updates will not be as good as in previous years.
Double suppression of law and market: In addition to the unsatisfactory performance of AI, factors such as the loss of the Epic case and the EU antitrust fine also suppress the market's confidence in Apple's business model. Analysts believe that Apple's top priority is to show transparency and send a signal of "AI practicality" to the outside world.
Impact on the market: Although WWDC is the focus of software, investors still expect Apple to announce quantifiable AI progress to change its position in the technology sector. Major events such as China-US inflation data and GameStop's financial report next week will also add fuel to market liquidity. Whether Apple can trigger a chain reaction still needs time to verify.