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Italian 10-year bond yields continued to rise, rising by 10 basis points to 3.29%.Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC): As there was no one-off income from equity securities trading in the last quarter, bank profits declined, which was partially offset by strong net interest income; The bank reported that its quarterly net interest income increased by $4.5 billion and its net interest margin rose to 3.23%. Bank of America's profits fell by 8.6% to $65.4 billion in the third quarter of 2024.Tian Xuan, Dean of Tsinghua University National Institute of Finance and Professor of Finance: Comprehensive measures are taken to promote sustained and stable economic growth and high-quality development. The Central Economic Work Conference proposed that next year, we should persist in striving for progress while maintaining stability, promoting stability through progress, maintaining integrity and innovation, making innovations before breaking, systematically integrating and cooperating, enriching and improving the policy toolbox, and improving the foresight, pertinence and effectiveness of macro-control. In this regard, Tian Xuan, dean of Tsinghua University National Finance Research Institute and professor of finance, said that the meeting clarified the core strategy of economic work next year, emphasized the innovation, systematicness and coordination of policies, and reflected the decision-makers' accurate judgment on the economic situation and positive attitude towards new changes and challenges. Tian Xuan said that compared with the past, the current policy orientation is more positive, such as "moderately loose monetary policy" and "more active fiscal policy", paying more attention to innovation, while adhering to the basic principles and bottom line, exploring new working ideas, paying more attention to the systematic nature of policies, considering the mutual influence and synergistic effect between various policies and the coordination and cooperation between different departments and policies, and maximizing the policy effect through comprehensive policies to solve the outstanding problems currently facing and promote the economy. (SSE)

Russian Foreign Minister: It's not the first time that Ukrainian President refused to propose a ceasefire. On December 12, local time, the Russian Foreign Ministry reported that Hungarian Foreign Minister Sergei Jardot had spoken with Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov and told Ukrainian President Zelensky that he had rejected the Hungarian proposal for a temporary ceasefire and an exchange of prisoners of war in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. Lavrov said that this is not the first time that the Ukrainian authorities rejected the relevant suggestions made by other countries after releasing their own signals. Hungarian Prime Minister Orban said on the 11th local time that Ukrainian President Zelensky explicitly rejected the proposal of a ceasefire on December 25th. "Hungary's rotating presidency of the European Union has come to an end. We have made the latest efforts for peace and proposed a ceasefire on December 25th and a large-scale exchange of prisoners of war. Zelensky explicitly rejected and ruled out this possibility ".European Central Bank President Lagarde: We must be very cautious. European Central Bank President Lagarde: We must be very cautious because service prices and wages are rising rapidly. Financial difficulties are self-created uncertainties.Institution: The European Central Bank may further cut interest rates by 100 basis points in 2025. Des Lawrence, an analyst at State Street Global Investment Management, said that after the European Central Bank cut interest rates by 25 basis points, it may cut interest rates by another 100 basis points in 2025. The senior investment strategist said in a report that the European Central Bank can and should cut interest rates further in the coming quarters. Lawrence said that the recent PMI data shows that the economic slowdown is expanding beyond the troubled manufacturing industry, and the service industry is also under pressure.

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