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Real-time News
The yield on Japans two-year government bonds fell 1.0 basis point to 1.345%.On March 31st, Zhengzhou rapeseed meal futures opened higher but then fluctuated downwards. Canadian canola futures closed higher, with the benchmark contract rising 1.00%, following the upward trend in international crude oil futures. Rapeseed meal spot prices fell slightly, with overall demand remaining weak. In major producing areas like South China, seedling planting has not yet commenced on a large scale, and feed companies are generally adopting a low-inventory strategy, only maintaining rigid restocking, resulting in rapeseed meal deliveries from oil mills remaining at a relatively low level of 0.91 million tons. In the short term, rapeseed meal prices are expected to fluctuate with a slightly bearish bias.On March 31, the Ministry of Finance released the 2026 central government budget. Among the central governments expenditures this year, science and technology expenditures are budgeted at 426.42 billion yuan, a 10% increase compared to the 2025 actual expenditure (387.7 billion yuan). This is significantly higher than the average growth rate of central government expenditures (5.5%), and also the highest growth rate among the major categories of central government expenditures exceeding 100 billion yuan. In 2012, central government expenditures on science and technology first exceeded 200 billion yuan (approximately 221 billion yuan), and in 2018, this expenditure first exceeded 300 billion yuan. This year, central government expenditures on science and technology are expected to exceed 400 billion yuan for the first time, accounting for approximately 9.4% of total central government expenditures. In the 2026 central government budgets investment expenditure table released by the Ministry of Finance, science and technology expenditures are budgeted at approximately 8.29 billion yuan, a 93.7% increase compared to last years actual expenditure, of which basic research is budgeted at approximately 8.04 billion yuan, an increase of 186.6%.According to the Financial Times, British chip startup Fractile is seeking to raise $200 million to challenge Nvidia (NVDA.O).The yield on 20-year Japanese government bonds fell 5.0 basis points to 3.255%.
