Sou Hu Cai Jing·2026-02-18 00:07Group 1: International Market Trends - The international precious metals market experienced significant volatility, with spot gold fluctuating between $4870/oz (down 0.14%) and $4880/oz (up 0.05%), while New York futures fell below $4870/oz (down 0.75%) and $4880/oz (down 0.52%) [1][2][3] - Spot gold previously fell below $4850/oz (down 2.93%) and $4860/oz (down 2.71%), with New York futures also dipping to $4860/oz (down 3.72%) and $4870/oz (down 3.50%), leading to a decline in U.S. gold mining stocks, with companies like Kinross Gold and AngloGold Ashanti seeing declines over 4% [6][7][8] - In the energy market, Brent crude oil fell below $67/barrel (down 2.43%), and WTI crude oil dropped below $62/barrel (down 1.21%), attributed to progress in U.S.-Iran nuclear negotiations, which reduced market risk premiums [12][13][14] - U.S. natural gas futures dropped 6.00%, currently at $3.048/million BTU [15] Group 2: U.S. Stock Market Performance - The U.S. stock market saw slight gains, with the Dow Jones up 0.08%, Nasdaq up 0.14%, and S&P 500 up 0.12%; Apple rose over 3%, Nvidia increased over 1%, and Amazon ended a nine-day decline with a 1.19% rise, during which it lost over $450 billion in market value [16][17] - However, Google and Microsoft fell over 1%, and Tesla also dropped over 1% [16][17] Group 3: Corporate Developments - Berkshire Hathaway reduced its holdings in Bank of America by 50.8 million shares and in Apple by 10.3 million shares for the third consecutive quarter, while increasing its stake in The New York Times by 5.1 million shares [19][20] - Meta and Nvidia entered a multi-year agreement to procure millions of Blackwell, Rubin GPUs, and Grace, Vera CPUs to expand AI data centers, and will jointly design the next generation of AI models [21][22] - SoftBank completely divested its holdings in Nvidia, while Tiger Global Management reduced its Amazon stake by 9.3% to 10 million shares [23][24] Group 4: Domestic Market Insights - On New Year's Eve 2026, UnionPay and NetUnion processed 4.931 billion payment transactions, a 21.64% increase from the previous year; during peak red envelope distribution (23:50 to 00:20), online payment peaked at 144,700 transactions per second, a 7.18% year-on-year increase, setting a new record [35] - In corporate news, Hesai's stock rose over 7% in early trading due to its laser radar being featured in two humanoid robots for the Spring Festival Gala [37]