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Ameriprise Financial's Chief Economist Russell Price predicts that the overall PCE will increase by 0.3% in December, and the core PCE will increase by 0.2%, which is consistent with general market estimates. Economists generally predict that the month-on-month growth rate of core PCE inflation (excluding volatile food and energy prices) will accelerate by 0.2%, and the year-on-year growth rate will remain at 2.8%. Russell Price believes that maintaining a pause is a very rational and reasonable view, predicting that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates by 25 basis points at its June meeting.

During the Apple earnings call, Cook was asked about his views on future iPhone models in terms of form innovation. Usually, he would refuse to reveal information about future products, but this time he gave an encouraging answer. Cook said: "I think there is still a lot to come, the innovation of the iPhone is far from over, and smartphones still have a lot of room for innovation. I am extremely optimistic about our product line." An analyst mentioned DeepSeek, a large model deeply explored by currently hot Chinese companies. Cook believes that DeepSeek's artificial intelligence model represents "innovation driving efficiency". "Overall," he said, "I think innovation driving efficiency is a good thing."