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        2025.05.02
    
07:08

                            The three major U.S. stock indexes closed higher, with the S&P 500 and Dow Jones both recording eight consecutive daily gains
                        
                            The three major U.S. stock indexes closed higher, with the Nasdaq up 1.52%, the S&P 500 up 0.63%, and the Dow up 0.21%. Among them, the S&P 500 and the Dow both recorded eight consecutive daily gains. Microsoft surged more than 7%, and the company's third quarter of fiscal year 2025 exceeded expectations across the board, with strong growth in cloud computing business. Meta rose more than 4%, Amazon rose more than 3%, Nvidia rose more than 2%, Google rose more than 1%, Apple and Netflix rose slightly; Tesla and Intel fell slightly. Eli Lilly fell more than 11%, the largest single-day drop since 2008.
                        
        2025.05.01
    
21:45

                            The Dow opened up 0.5%, the S&P 500 rose 1.0%, and the Nasdaq rose 2.0%
                        
                            Microsoft rose 8.6%, with its quarterly results exceeding expectations and its target price raised by many major banks. Meta rose 7.5%, with double-digit growth in Q1 advertising revenue. CVS Health rose 9.4%, with Q1 results exceeding expectations. Qualcomm fell 6.1%, with weak revenue guidance for the third fiscal quarter.
                        
21:31

                            U.S. stocks opened higher, with technology stocks performing strongly
                        
                            At the opening of the US stock market, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.51%, the S&P 500 rose 1.02%, and the Nasdaq rose 2%, driven by the cooling of the trade situation and the better-than-expected earnings of technology stocks. Microsoft (MSFT.O) rose 10%, and Meta Platforms (META.O) rose 7.25%, and its Q1 results both exceeded expectations. The Nasdaq China Golden Dragon Index rose 0.43%.
                        
20:18

                            Morgan Stanley: Raised Meta Platforms (META.O) price target from $615 to $650.
                        
18:21

                            Barclays: Lowered Meta Platforms (META.O) target price from $705 to $640.
                        
16:09

                            Meta Platforms (META.O) rose 6.6% in pre-market trading as Q1 revenue exceeded expectations.
                        
06:05

                            Meta CEO: The sales opportunity for AI glasses is about 10 million pairs.
                        
05:15

                            Meta Platforms CEO Zuckerberg: Nearly 1 billion monthly active users currently use Meta's artificial intelligence technology in all their applications.
                        
05:13

                            Meta Platforms CEO Zuckerberg: Meta AI applications will focus on scaling and increasing user engagement this year and will focus on business development next year.
                        
05:12

                            Meta Platforms CEO Zuckerberg: Business messaging should be the next pillar of our business.
                        
05:11

                            Meta Platforms CEO Zuckerberg: Improvements to the recommendation system have driven users' stay time on Facebook to increase by 7%, on Instagram by 6%, and on Threads by 35% in the past six months.
                        
05:10

                            Meta Platforms CEO Zuckerberg: Threads currently has more than 350 million monthly active users.
                        
04:49

                            Meta's impressive revenue dispelled concerns about its advertising business, and its stock price rose by more than 6% after the market closed.
                        
                            Meta Platforms (META.O) said first-quarter sales reached $42 billion and said growth would remain steady in the coming months, dispelling concerns that Trump's tariffs would hurt its global digital advertising business. The social media giant said its first-quarter revenue grew 16%, beating analysts' expectations. Meta had previously expected the company's revenue to grow 8% to 16% year-on-year in the current quarter, pushing its shares up more than 6% in after-hours trading. In addition, the company had a net profit of $16.6 billion in the first quarter. Meta also said it had lowered its full-year spending forecast by $1 billion. However, Meta's metaverse business unit, Reality Labs, recorded an operating loss of $4.2 billion on sales of $412 million. Reality Labs has accumulated losses of more than $60 billion since the end of 2020.
                        
04:26

                            Meta Platforms (META.O): We continue to monitor the active regulatory environment, including legal and regulatory headwinds in the EU and the United States, which could have a significant impact on our business and financial results.
                        
04:25

                            Meta Platforms (META.O): We expect total full-year 2025 spending to be between $113 billion and $118 billion, down from our previous outlook of $114 billion to $119 billion.

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