经济与疫情

联储主席，Jerome Powell 暗示美国央行收回债券购买行为仍遥遥无期，这些操作原本用于支持被疫情影响的经济（pandemic-damaged economy），即使他之前声称期待今年下半年更多正常经济活动回暖。他淡化了人们对通胀的担忧（play down on concerns over inflation），既是由于疫情期间的紧急援助，又或者是那些接种疫苗后的尚未失业的美国人开始消费所释放出的被抑制的需求。“经济要达到预期的就业和通胀目标，仍然有很长的路要走，”Powell 周二对议员银行委员会（Senate Banking Committee）称，“这可能需要一定的时间，去取得进一步进展。”记者 David Rovella。

美国股市逆转了损失，在Powell发表对于通胀的评论之后，他对于增长的谨慎展望刺激了交易员进行对冲购买（his cautious outlook for growth spurred traders to buy the dip）。国债上涨，亚洲股票开端不明朗（Treasuries edged higher and Asian equities look set for a mixed start.）

南非非常关注疫苗Sputnik V的效果，这种疫苗专门针对新冠变种病毒。该国还关注在俄罗斯传播的腺病毒5号（adenovirus 5），此前有研究该病毒让人们更加容易感染HIV。

许多国家正在放开管制，其他国家仍然在最近一波新冠肺炎的病毒的斗争中。捷克的医院几乎满座，由于重症病房（Intensive care unit, ICU）已经住满病人，意大利实施严格中心区域封锁。在美国，前一天刚发布噩梦般里程碑，新冠死亡人数达到50万，一些好消息出现了。强生宣称，下个月将到货2000万剂一次注射疫苗，以及瑞辉制药（Pfizer-BioNTech）和摩德纳（Moderna） 的二次注射疫苗，预计下个月到达，将足够给1.3亿美国人加上防护。

商业新闻

ReNew Power，印度最大的一家可再生资源生产商，快达成一项协议，即与一家空白支票公司 RMG Acquisition Corp. II（该公司Nasdaq上市，专用于目的收购，可能是作者讽刺） 进行合并。该交易将由高盛完成，估值ReNew集团以80亿美金。

周二，特斯拉收益下降（百度、谷歌翻译：抹去了年初至今的涨幅），短期交易价格低于去年12月，电动汽车板块计入标普500的时候。Tesla shares wiped out their year-to-date gains Tuesday and briefly traded below the level they were at when the electric-carmaker entered the S&P500 Index in December.

白宫闹事

白人至上主义者，以及其他粗暴的特朗普追随者，如何于1月6日在攻破国会大厦的？负责大头安全的执法人员，在首次听证会上指责，此次五角大楼事件是毫无头脑、史无前例的、无聊的攻击。 How did white supremacists and other rioting Trump followers breach the U.S. Capitol on Jan, 6? The law enforcement officials responsible for the building’s security blamed the Pentagon, intelligence lapses and each other during the first hearings about the unprecedented, deadly attack.

黑客事件

俄罗斯黑客嫌疑人交代，其使用SolarWinds Corp开发的软件，侵入美国政府及公司。情报委员会主席，议员Mark Warner说，他使用网络武器侵入美国政府和公司，潜力太强大以至于差点宕机。弗吉尼亚民主党称此次侵入，其攻击及渗透程度远超其之前所见。他的委员会也正在举办关于非法爬取信息的听证会，正在调查一起攻击事件，这起事件中特朗普拒绝指责俄罗斯。然而，Biden团队被曝出正打算严惩墨西哥，由于以下几起事件：黑美国的信息，之前网络权限乱使用事件，以及预谋刺杀Vladimir Putin的主要竞争对手，俄罗斯反对党领袖，Alexei Navalny。

01 Bloomberg News Original

Fed Chair Jerome Powell signaled that the U.S. central bank was nowhere close to pulling back on its bond-buying support for the pandemic-damaged economy, even as he voiced expectations for a return to more normal activity later this year. He also played down concerns over inflation from another big Covid bailout or the unleashing of pent-up demand as vaccinated Americans who didn’t lose their jobs start spending. “The economy is a long way from our employment and inflation goals,” Powell told the Senate Banking Committee Tuesday. “And it is likely to take some time for substantial further progress to be achieved.” —David E. Rovella

U.S. stocks reversed losses after Powell’s comments on inflation, and his cautious outlook for growth spurred traders to buy the dip. Treasuries edged higher and Asian equities look set for a mixed start. Here’s your markets wrap.

South Africa has concerns about the efficacy of the Sputnik V vaccine against a fast-spreading variant of the coronavirus first identified there. The country is also concerned about the adenovirus 5 vector used in the Russian shot, which has in previous studies appeared to make people more susceptible to HIV infection.

While many countries are loosening restrictions, others are still being battered by the latest wave of Covid-19 infections. Czech hospitals are nearing “total exhaustion” as intensive-care units fill with patients and Italy is imposing a new hard lockdown in areas close to the country’s original epicenter. In the U.S., a day after it surpassed the nightmarish milestone of 500,000 confirmed deaths, some good news arrived: Johnson & Johnson said it will be ready next month to ship 20 million doses of its one-shot vaccine. Along with two-shot vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, the delivery targets through next month will be enough to fully vaccinate 130 million Americans. Here is he latest on the pandemic.

How did white supremacists and other rioting Trump followers breach the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6? The law enforcement officials responsible for the building’s security blamed the Pentagon, intelligence lapses and each other during the first hearings about the unprecedented, deadly attack.

Steven Sund, former chief of the U.S. Capitol Police, testified Feb. 23 during a Senate hearing in Washington over the January attack on Congress.

02 ReNew Power, India’s Biggest Renewable Power Producer

ReNew Power, India’s biggest renewable power producer, is nearing an agreement to merge with blank-check company RMG Acquisition Corp. II. The deal would give Goldman Sachs Group-backed ReNew an enterprise value of $8 billion.

Tesla shares wiped out their year-to-date gains Tuesday and briefly traded below the level they were at when the electric-carmaker entered the S&P 500 Index in December. Guess who is partly to blame?

The suspected Russian hackers who compromised software created by SolarWinds Corp. to break into U.S. government agencies and companies used a cyber weapon “so potentially powerful it could have been crippling,” said Senator Mark Warner, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. The Democrat from Virginia called the assault “a level of attack and level of penetration that is much greater than what we have seen.” His committee, which is holding hearings on the sprawling breach, is digging into an attack President Donald Trump refused to blame on Russia. The Biden administration, however, is reportedly preparing to punish Moscow for the hack, as well as previous cyber malfeasance and the attempted murder of Vladimir Putin’s arch rival, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.