Report Summary 1. Industry Investment Rating No investment rating information provided in the content. 2. Core Viewpoints - The AI chip demand remains strong as TSMC's January revenue showed significant growth, indicating the continued AI boom. The central bank will continue a moderately loose monetary policy to promote stable economic growth and reasonable price recovery [1][2]. 3. Summary by Directory A. Mid - view Event Overview - Production Industry: The five - department joint release aims to enhance the supply capacity of the information and communication industry for low - altitude infrastructure, including promoting 5G - A development, upgrading base stations, and accelerating technology - industrial maturity. TSMC's January revenue reached NT$401.26 billion (about $12.71 billion), a 36.8% year - on - year increase and 19.8% month - on - month increase, the highest in history [1]. - Service Industry: The central bank will continue a moderately loose monetary policy, using various tools like reserve requirement ratio and interest rate cuts to ensure sufficient liquidity and reasonable growth of social financing [2]. B. Industry Overview - Upstream: Black commodity prices declined, egg prices dropped, and chemical product prices were at a low level [3]. - Midstream: PX and urea had high operating rates among chemical products, while others were low. Power plant coal consumption increased, and the production of pork products rose [3]. - Downstream: The sales of commercial housing in first - and second - tier cities decreased seasonally, while the number of domestic flights continued to rise [4]. C. Key Industry Price Indicators - Agriculture: Corn prices remained stable, while egg, palm oil, cotton, and pork prices declined. Copper prices rose slightly, and zinc prices fell [39]. - Non - ferrous Metals: Aluminum prices increased, while nickel prices decreased slightly. - Black Metals: The prices of steel products and iron ore all declined, except for a slight increase in glass prices. - Non - metals: Natural rubber prices rose slightly, and the China Plastic City price index decreased. - Energy: Crude oil prices (WTI and Brent) declined, while liquefied natural gas and coal prices changed slightly. - Chemicals: The prices of PTA, polyethylene, urea, and soda ash all declined, and the cement price index decreased. - Real Estate: The building materials and concrete price indices both declined [39].
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