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伊隆·马斯克本周访问了中国。这是其三年来首次访华，恰逢中国正努力表明其对外资企业开放的姿态。自周二抵达北京以来，马斯克会见了中国的外交部长、商务部长和工信部长，并与顶级电池供应商宁德时代的董事长共进晚餐。马斯克在旅途中尚未发表任何公开声明。但中国外交部援引这位亿万富翁的话说，美国和中国经济是“连体婴”，并表示马斯克反对两国脱钩。一位分析师表示，马斯克此行不仅仅是为了特斯拉，还是一份呼吁太平洋两岸稳定的“政治声明”。在特斯拉方面，马斯克来访之际，该公司正面临来自中国制造的电动汽车的激烈竞争以及在中国的价格战。Elon Musk visited China this week. His first visit to China in three years comes as Beijing is pushing to show it is open to foreign business. Since landing in Beijing on Tuesday, Musk has met with China's foreign, commerce and industry ministers and has dined with the Chairman of top battery supplier CATL. Musk has yet to make any public statements during his trip. But China foreign ministry quoted the billionaire as describing the U.S. and China economies as "conjoined twins" and saying that Musk was opposed to their decoupling. Musk's visit is not just about Tesla, but its a "political statement" calling for stability on both sides of the Pacific, one analyst says. On Tesla’s side, Musk’s visit comes as the company faces heightened competition from Chinese-made electric vehicles and a price war in China.
周二早些时候中国发射了神舟十六号，将包括第一名平民在内的三名宇航员送入轨道。在新闻发布会上，中国载人航天局还重申了将于2030年实现载人登月的计划。而美国的目标是在SpaceX和Blue Origin等私营企业的帮助下，于2025年年底将宇航员送回月球表面。同时两国均计划在月球上建立永久载人基地。除了月球计划，美国和中国还都在火星上登陆了漫游车，且北京也计划在小行星上登陆航天器。太空越来越被视为中美竞争的新领域。China launched the Shenzhou-16 to send three astronauts, including its first civilian, into orbit early Tuesday. In its press conference, the China Manned Space Agency also reiterated China’s plan for a manned lunar landing by 2030. The U.S. aims to put astronauts back on the lunar surface by the end of 2025, aided by private sector players such as SpaceX and Blue Origin. Plans for permanent crewed bases on the moon are also being considered by both countries. In addition to their lunar programs, the U.S. and China have also landed rovers on Mars and Beijing plans to follow the U.S. in landing a spacecraft on an asteroid. Space is increasingly seen as a new area of competition between China and the United States.
美国长期抵押贷款平均利率（30 年期住房贷款）本周攀升至6.79%，为去年11月以来的最高水平。为降低顽固的高通胀，美联储在14个月内上调基准利率10次。美联储主席鲍威尔最近表示，在本月的政策制定者会议上可能会放弃再次加息。尽管如此，暂停并不意味着加息不会在今年晚些时候再次恢复。鉴于通胀仍然居高不下，其他美联储官员仍表示支持进一步加息。今年美国房地产市场复苏很慢，抵押贷款利率上升和市场上房屋库存不足限制了销售。根据房地产数据公司Attom周四发布的一项分析，第一季度购房贷款与去年同期相比下降了44.3%。Average long-term US mortgage rate（30-year home loan） climbs to 6.79% this week, highest level since November. The Fed has raised its benchmark interest rate 10 times in 14 months in a bid to lower stubbornly high inflation. Fed Chair Jerome Powell has recently signaled that the Fed may forego another interest rate hike at this month’s meeting of policymakers. Still, a pause now doesn’t mean the Fed couldn’t resume hiking later this year. And other Fed officials continue to express support for more hikes, given inflation remains elevated. The U.S. housing market has been slow to regain its footing this year, with elevated mortgage rates and a thin inventory of homes on the market working to limit sales. As a result, home purchase loans were down 44.3% in the first quarter compared to the same period last year, according to an analysis released Thursday by real estate data firm Attom.- 曾被称为女版乔布斯的“滴血验病”实验室创始人霍姆斯今起服刑
血液检测实验室Theranos的创始人伊丽莎白·霍姆斯周二抵达德克萨斯州的联邦监狱，开始其11年零3个月的服刑期。霍姆斯曾是硅谷的偶像和纸面上的亿万富翁。2003年，19岁的她从斯坦福大学辍学创办了一家公司，这家初创公司声称发明了一项技术，只需几滴血就可以准确地检测一系列疾病。在接下来的十年里，霍姆斯将Theranos打造成硅谷的宠儿，一度估值超过90亿美元。直到2015年，《华尔街日报》在一项调查报告中称，在Theranos使用其专有技术提供的数百项测试中，只有大约12项真实进行过，而且准确性令人怀疑，自此，这家公司开始解体。2022年1月，她被判犯有四项欺诈罪。霍姆斯是罕见的因欺诈而受审并被定罪的硅谷创始人。Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of the blood-testing lab Theranos, arrived at a federal prison in Texas on Tuesday to start serving an 11-year, 3-month sentence. Holmes was once a Silicon Valley icon and paper billionaire. In 2003, when she dropped out of Stanford University at age 19 to start a company, a startup that claimed to have invented technology that could accurately test for a range of conditions using just a few drops of blood. Over the next decade, Holmes built Theranos into a darling of Silicon Valley, at one point valued at more than $9 billion. Her company began to unravel after a Wall Street Journal investigation in 2015 reported that Theranos had only ever performed roughly a dozen of the hundreds of tests it offered using its proprietary technology, and with questionable accuracy. She was found guilty of four counts of wire fraud in January 2022. Holmes is now the rare Silicon Valley founder to be tried for and convicted of fraud.
点对点支付应用程序和提供类似银行服务的非银行机构在过去十年中大受欢迎。但消费者金融保护局周四警告说，Venmo、PayPal 和CashApp的客户不应长期将钱存放在这些应用程序中，因为在危机期间资金可能不安全。CFPB的这一警告是在硅谷银行、Signature银行和First Republic银行倒闭数周后发出的。联邦存款保险公司为银行账户提供高达250,000美元的保险。但存储在 Venmo、CashApp或Apple Cash中的钱并没有存放在传统的银行账户中。因此，如果这些支付应用程序发生类似于银行挤兑的事件，账户中的资金可能无法得到保护。Peer-to-Peer payment apps and non-banks offering bank-like services have exploded in popularity in the last decade. But the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau warned Thursday, customers of Venmo, PayPal and CashApp should not store their money with those apps for the long term because the funds might not be safe during a crisis. The alert comes several weeks after the failure of Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank and First Republic Bank. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation insures bank accounts up to $250,000. But money stored in Venmo or CashApp or Apple Cash is not being held in a traditional bank account. So, if there is an event similar to a bank run with those payment apps, those funds may not be protected.
医疗保险和医疗补助服务中心周四表示，它将支付获得食品和药物管理局批准的新阿尔茨海默症药物Leqembi的费用，虽然将要求医生收集该药物临床表现的真实数据。Leqembi在1月份获得了FDA的加速批准，因有证据表明它可以减缓早期阿尔茨海默症患者认知能力的下降。Medicare 目前仅在患者参加临床试验时才支付Leqembi的费用。而这种药物每年花费26,500美元，大多数人负担不起。周四此举发生在FDA咨询委员会6月9日会议之前，届时专家小组将投票决定是否建议FDA全面批准Leqembi。如果一切顺利，那么需要这种药物的Medicare覆盖人群则能根据新规则获取药物。疾病控制和预防中心估计美国约有600万阿尔茨海默症患者。The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said Thursday that it will pay for new Alzheimer’s drug Leqemi that are granted approval from the Food and Drug Administration, although it will require physicians to collect data on how well the drugs perform in the real world. Leqembi received accelerated approval from the FDA in January, based on the evidence suggesting it would slow cognitive decline in early Alzheimer's patients. But the medication costs $26,500 a year, making it out of reach for most people. Medicare currently pays for Leqembi only if patients are enrolled in a clinical trial. The move Thursday came ahead of an FDA advisory committee meeting on June 9 at which a panel of experts is expected to vote on whether to recommend that the FDA grant full approval to Leqembi. If the advisory committee meeting goes well and the FDA grants traditional approval, people on Medicare who want the drug should be able to get it under the new Medicare rules. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that about 6 million people are living with Alzheimer.2023年底特律大奖赛将于本周末重返市中心街头。这是该项赛事自1991年以来在贝尔岛 (Belle Isle) 举办了几十年之后首次回归底特律市中心。市中心的街道正在改造成一条1.7英里的赛道，从周五开始到周日结束，IndyCars将在数以万计的观众面前以每小时200英里的速度飞驰而过。NBC将实况转播该项赛事。除比赛外，底特律市还计划举办音乐会和其他活动。底特律大奖赛始于1982年。来自世界各地——包括加拿大、英国和德国——热爱这项运动的游客均会前来观看。大奖赛网站上仍可购买门票。周五是“免费大奖赛日”，这意味着1号看台和9号看台按照先到先得的原则免费向公众开放。周日预留座位已售罄，但仍可购买普通门票。The 2023 Detroit Grand Prix is returning to the streets of downtown this weekend. After decades on Belle Isle, the race is heading back to its roots as a downtown race for the first time since 1991. The city's streets are being transformed into a 1.7-mile race track where, beginning Friday and ending Sunday, IndyCars will speed past tens of thousands of spectators at speeds of 200 mph. The Grand Prix is set to be broadcast on NBC, and, in addition to the race, concerts and other activities are planned. The Detroit Grand Prix began in 1982. Visitors who love the sport have come from all over ― including Canada, Great Britain and Germany — to watch it. Tickets are still available on the Grand Prix website. Friday is "Free Prix Day" meaning that Grandstands 1 and 9 are free to the public on a first-come first-serve basis. Reserved seating is sold out for Sunday, but general admission tickets are still available.
州长惠特默周三在底特律地区商会的会议上宣布了一项新的经济发展战略，同时肯定了她的由政府通过纳税人资助的补贴吸引公司在密西根州创造新就业机会的方法。惠特默称，该计划被称为“在密歇根制造”，由三种类型的投资组成：项目、人员和地点。她没有提供该战略包括的提案的具体细节，而是承诺在不久的将来会更详细地列出这些提案。但她说，当涉及到新项目落地时，该计划提出了“密歇根制造的转型棕地基金”和“密歇根制造的先进制造和清洁技术竞争力基金”。棕地基金将专注于为新投资准备场地。竞争力基金将帮助密歇根州从CHIPS法案和通货膨胀减少法案中获得联邦资金，以促进国内半导体和清洁能源行业的发展。惠特默说，州经济发展机构已经看到企业寻求国家支持以在密歇根州扩张或搬到密州的兴趣创下历史新高。Gov.Gretchen Whitmer announced a new economic development strategy Wednesday at the Detroit Regional Chamber's Mackinac Policy Conference while affirming her administration’s approach to luring companies to create new jobs in Michigan with taxpayer-funded subsidies. Dubbed "Make It In Michigan," Whitmer said the program is made up of three types of investments: those in projects, people and places. She offered few specifics on the full slate of proposals the strategy includes, promising to lay them out in greater detail in the near future. But she said when it comes to landing new projects, the program proposes a "Make it In Michigan Transformational Brownfield Fund" and "Make it in Michigan Advanced Manufacturing and Clean Tech Competitiveness Fund." The brownfield fund will focus on preparing sites for new investments. Meanwhile, the competitiveness fund would help Michigan secure federal dollars from the CHIPS Act and Inflation Reduction Act to boost domestic semiconductor and clean energy sectors, Whitmer said. The state's economic development agency has seen record interest from businesses seeking state support to expand in Michigan or move to the state, Whitmer said.
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