The European Central Bank predicts that the inflation rate will drop to 2% in the fourth quarter of 2025.Dong Ximiao, Principal Investigator of Zhaolian: Support small and medium-sized banks to better establish a long-term mechanism for capital replenishment. The Central Economic Work Conference proposed to effectively prevent and resolve risks in key areas and firmly hold the bottom line of systemic risks. The meeting also proposed that the risks of local small and medium-sized financial institutions should be properly handled. Dong Ximiao, chief researcher of Zhaolian, believes that more resolute and effective measures should be taken to promote the real estate market to stop falling and stabilize, speed up the reform of small and medium-sized financial institutions, and firmly hold the bottom line of no systemic risks. (SSE)South Korean investors flocked to the gold market. Today, the South Korean National Assembly passed the "Yin Xiyue General Special Inspection Law for Civil Disturbance" and the "Jin Jianxit Inspection Law". According to a survey released by the Korean polling agency on the 12th, 74.8% of the respondents thought that President Yin Xiyue should immediately step down or be impeached, and stop performing his duties. The political situation is turbulent, and the sales of gold bars of the five major banks in South Korea have also increased significantly. On the first day after the emergency martial law incident, that is, on the 4th of this month, more than 1.5 billion won of gold bars were sold, far exceeding the daily average. (CCTV Finance)
South Asia Stock Market | Pakistan Stock Index closed up more than 3%, and Sri Lanka Stock Market continued to hit a record high. On Thursday (December 12), the KSE 100 Index of Karachi Stock Exchange of Pakistan closed up 3.04% to 114,000 points, which was the second consecutive trading day. Karachi's all-share index closed up 2.45% to 72,109.52 points, which also continued to hit a record high. The total share price index of Colombo, Sri Lanka, closed up 1.09% to 14,035.81 points, hitting a record high for several consecutive days. Since the close on November 25th, the cumulative increase has exceeded 9.00%. The Bangladesh DSE Generalized Index closed down 0.37% to 5105.43 points, with a cumulative decline of 1.76% this week (five consecutive natural days).The main force of Brent crude oil futures fell by 1.01% in the day to 72.80 US dollars/barrel.Traders have reduced their bets on the easing policy of the European Central Bank, and it is now expected that the interest rate reduction will be less than 125 basis points in 2025.
GBP/USD fell 0.4% to 1.2700, the lowest level in a week.Netac Technology: A joint working group was established with ZTE to continuously promote the landing of orders. Netac Technology released a record of investor relations activities, and Netac Technology continued to strengthen cooperation with ZTE at the strategic level. The two sides have jointly established a joint working group and continued to promote the landing of orders. The bidding work for some projects has been started. The next step is to focus on obtaining stable and substantial orders and continuously create a computing ecological pattern. In addition, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area storage base covers a wide range, and related work is in the process of promotion. The suspension and restriction of sales of NVIDIA Gaosuanlike has no significant impact on Netac Technology. The company has launched a heterogeneous computing power dispatching platform, and has maintained a good cooperative relationship with domestic computing power card manufacturers. The dispatching platform gives priority to recommending customers to test and adapt domestic computing power cards, and related work is in progress.The yield of Italian 10-year government bonds rose by 9 basis points to 3.28%, the highest level since December 2.