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Jon Gray, President of Blackstone Group: The US market and economy are in a "sweet spot" state.Spanish Foreign Minister: The debate on sanctions is on the table. Let's engage quickly and clearly on the Syrian issue. We must discuss the removal of Sharm el-Liberation from the list of terrorists.Dollar deposits and wealth management are popular again, and experts such as CITIC Mingming have paid attention to exchange risk. Since December, many bank wealth management subsidiaries have intensively put on shelves dollar wealth management products. According to the statistics of Puyi standard data, as of December 9, there were 1,312 surviving products in US dollar financing, and the surviving scale of US dollar financing reached 281.927 billion yuan, which has doubled from the surviving scale of 140.351 billion yuan at the end of December last year. Although banks have previously lowered the interest rate of dollar deposit products, from the current point of view, the interest rate of some banks' dollar deposits remains above 4%, attracting many customers to buy. Judging from the rate of return, the performance benchmark of some US dollar fixed-income wealth management products currently launched is close to 5%, but the performance benchmark of RMB wealth management products with the same risk level is mostly around 2%.

Mackler M, Governor of the Bank of Canada: (Regarding the potential tariff policy) We can't make policies based on what may happen. If the (US) tariffs are implemented as promised, it will cause serious damage to the Canadian economy.Financial support has accelerated the purchase and storage of stock houses. In order to help commercial houses to go out of stock and increase the supply of affordable housing, all localities have continued to promote the acquisition of completed stock commercial houses for affordable housing. Recently, all kinds of financial support for the storage and storage of existing commercial housing is accelerating. "By making good use of funds such as housing rental group purchase loans to support the acquirer to carry out purchasing and storage work, it can revitalize the stock and digest the inventory, which has a great impact on the market's stability." The researchers said that at present, the tools that can provide funds for purchasing and storage, such as refinancing of affordable housing, special loans and special bonds, are still in the process of landing, and various localities are also exploring the purchasing and storage and subsequent operation modes of existing commercial housing. (Securities Daily)Trump's tariff risk is surging in the gold and silver market, new york futures premium is expanding, COMEX gold futures and COMEX silver futures premium are expanding, and traders weigh the possibility of including precious metals in the comprehensive tariff measures proposed by US President-elect Trump. At 21:24 Beijing time (within 10 minutes before the release of US CPI inflation data), the main contract of new york gold futures rose to 2759.70 nil/ounce, which was once 60 USD/ounce higher than the spot price; Silver futures are more than $1 an ounce, or 3%. "This is a pre-emptive panic pre-deployment before tariffs." Nicky Shiels, head of metal strategy at MKS Pamp SA, said. She said that banks and funds bought futures on the New York Mercantile Exchange and sold contracts in London, which promoted price fluctuations.

Iraqi Prime Minister and Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister discussed the situation in Syria by telephone. On December 11th, local time, Iraqi Prime Minister Al-Sudani telephoned Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed. During the call, the two sides discussed the latest development of the situation in Syria and its impact on the region. The two sides unanimously stressed that Arab countries need to strengthen coordination and jointly promote dialogue among Syrian parties to ensure Syria's security, sovereignty and territorial integrity. The two sides also held discussions on strengthening bilateral relations and deepening development in various fields. In addition, Sudani also congratulated Muhammad on Saudi Arabia's winning the right to host the 2034 World Cup. (CCTV)Apple released iOS 18.2: Siri integrated ChatGPT. After more than six weeks of testing, Apple announced that iOS 18.2, iPadOS 18.2 and macOS Sequoia 15.2 were officially launched. It is reported that iOS 18.2 allows users to create custom Genmoji expressions, built-in application Playground that can generate images, and intelligent voice assistant Siri that integrates ChatGPT. According to public reports, at WWDC2024, Apple announced a cooperation with OpenAI, and Siri will integrate ChatGPT.Israel lifted the restrictions on the northern part of the Golan Heights. The IDF released a message on the evening of 11th local time, saying that after the assessment by the IDF Homeland Defense Command, Israeli Defense Minister Katz approved the lifting of the restrictions on the northern part of the Golan Heights, and the allowed scale of activities changed from partial activities to full-scale activities. With the cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon starting last month, this is the first time that the restrictions in the region have been relaxed.