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European Commissioner Albuquerque: Europe must retain control of key technologies that underpin our economy.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Novak: GDP is expected to grow by 1%-1.3% in 2026.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Novak: Russia's unemployment rate is expected to fall to 2.2% in 2025.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Novak: Russia’s GDP is expected to grow by 1% in 2025.

European stocks generally rose at the opening, with the German DAX index rising 0.68%, the FCHI index rising 0.32%, the European Stoxx 50 index rising 0.6%, and the British FTSE 100 index rising 0.13%.

The number of unemployed people in Spain changed by 30,400 in January, compared with the previous value of -16,300.

Spain’s monthly unemployment rate in January was 1.26%, down from -0.67% in the previous month.

The Australian dollar/yen exchange rate rose to 109.44, a new high since 1990, up 1.6% on the day.

The commercial aerospace sector of Hong Kong stocks fluctuated and rose. Junda (02865.HK) rose by more than 27%, Asia Pacific Satellite (01045.HK) rose by more than 12%, and stocks such as Goldwind Technology (02208.HK), AVIC (02357.HK), Lens Technology (06613.HK) followed suit.

France's January adjusted monthly CPI initial value was -0.4%, expected -0.2%, and the previous value was 0.10%.

France's initial CPI annual rate in January was 0.3%, expected to be 0.6%, and the previous value was 0.80%.

The initial value of French CPI monthly rate in January was -0.3%, expected -0.1%, and the previous value was 0.10%.

France's initial adjusted CPI annual rate in January was 0.4%, expected to be 0.6%, and the previous value was 0.70%.

The French government budget in December was -124.742 billion euros, compared with the previous value of -155.4 billion euros.

France's preliminary monthly CPI data for January will be released in ten minutes.

French Finance Minister: Economic growth is expected to be 1% this year, and we are off to a good start.

Video and mobile communications services company Liberty Global: will work with Google to optimize cloud services in an artificial intelligence-first project to improve telecommunications systems and network scalability. A five-year partnership has been struck to deploy Google's Gemini artificial intelligence models and cloud tools across its European operations.

Ukraine’s Energy Minister: Russia’s attack left hundreds of thousands of homes without heat.

Ukraine Foreign Minister: Russian President Vladimir Putin waited until temperatures dropped before attacking energy sector.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister: Russia used 450 drones and more than 60 missiles to attack Ukraine last night.