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一 | Consumer prices rose 3.7% in September compared to a year ago, holding steady from the previous month and running hotter than economists had expected.While inflation has fallen significantly from a peak of about 9% last summer, price increases remain more than a percentage point higher than the Fed's inflation target.The data arrives roughly three weeks before the Fed plans to make its latest rate-hike decision. Last month, the Fed left its benchmark interest rate unchanged, noting that it expects to raise rates one more time this year.Increases in housing and gasoline prices made up the largest contributors to price movement last month, government data showed.The stubbornness of the price hike data held true for a separate key metric, core inflation, which strips out volatile food and energy prices.Core inflation rose 4.1% in September compared to a year ago, matching the rate demonstrated over the previous month.Despite hotter-than-expected annual inflation, the report holds some good news for the performance of price hikes last month.Consumer prices increased a significant 0.4% in September compared to the previous month, a marked slowdown from the month-over-month inflation rate in August, according to the data released on Thursday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.Mixed signals from the economy in recent weeks have complicated the Fed's effort to bring down inflation while averting a recession, an outcome known as a "soft landing."A rapid rise in U.S. government bond yields over recent weeks has elevated borrowing costs for consumers seeking mortgage loans and corporations pursuing funds to expand their business. The jump in borrowing expenses threatens to slow economic activity in the coming months.However, a blockbuster jobs report on Friday showed that employers added 336,000 jobs in September, exceeding economist expectations by nearly twofold and reversing a monthslong hiring slowdown.The unemployment rate held steady at 3.8%, a historically low figure, government data showed.The robust hiring suggests that businesses remain willing to add workers, despite an aggressive series of interest rate hikes over the past year.The good economic news may pose a difficulty for the Federal Reserve, however, as it tries to cool the economy and slow down price increases.While the breakneck hiring could alarm central bankers, a simultaneous moderation of wage growth shown by the hiring data could alleviate fears of upward pressure placed on prices in the event of a sharp rise in worker pay.Wages increased 4.2% on an annual basis last month, exceeding the inflation rate but falling well below the 6% pace recorded in March, data showed.Despite significant progress over the past year, the Fed remains far from its target inflation rate, Fed Chair Jerome Powell said at a press conference in Washington, D.C., last month."The process of getting inflation sustainably down to 2% has a long way to go," Powell said."Given how far we have come, we're in a position to proceed carefully as we assess the incoming data and the evolving outlook and risks," Powell added.。对此，Meta 强烈抨击了 FTC 的观点，表示 FTC 的这些担忧都仅仅只是推测，而没有任何实质性证据。该公司认为这起诉讼会成为错误的先例，向市场上的其他公司发出了“冷酷的信息”，影响了 VR 领域的创新。

二 | Meta 公司已经明确否认了 FTC 的所有观点。该公司表示监管机构诉讼的整个前提是有缺陷的，那就是 Beat Saber 和 Supernatural 的合并无法垄断这个领域。前者是一款音乐和节奏类游戏，而后者是基于订阅的健康服务。Meta 表示两款产品所面向的消费群体和竞争对手都是完全不同的。针对通过收购 VR 公司和应用来垄断 VR 生态的这个 FTC 观点，Meta 公司也予以驳斥。Meta 公司表示已经投资了数十亿美元让 VR 空间更受欢迎也向更多的开发者开放。