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Fitch Ratings: US state and local governments (economies) are expected to return to normal in 2025. Steady reserves, reduced liabilities, and prudent budget management have prepared American state and local governments for 2025.The concept of high-speed copper connection is very popular. Recently, benefiting from the explosive demand growth of AI computing power, the market funds focus on the supporting concept of high-speed copper connection in the upper reaches of NVIDIA. On December 11th, a number of high-speed copper connection concept stocks rose sharply, with Zhaolong Interconnect rising by 12.58%, Woer Nuclear Materials by 8.70%, Shenyu Shares by 4.77% and Derun Electronics by 4.99%. High-speed copper connection, also known as high-speed connector, is a core data transmission component, which constitutes an efficient signal transmission system. Manager Public Offering of Fund said that the concept stocks of high-speed copper connection continued to rise, which actually benefited from the explosion of demand for AI computing power. Invista once introduced at GTC2024 that NVL72 uses copper cable interconnection to save costs significantly compared with optical modules. Shanxi Securities predicts that the new market of high-speed copper cable brought by GB200 will be close to 6 billion US dollars in 2025, and the usage scenarios of high-speed copper cable will continue to expand. It is found that a number of public and private equity funds have heavily invested in the concept stocks of high-speed copper connections that have risen recently in the third quarter. There are also fund managers who heavily invested in related stocks in the second quarter, but significantly reduced their positions in the third quarter, missing the rise of concept stocks in the fourth quarter. There are also some fund managers who continue to be optimistic about the stimulation of the demand of upstream industries caused by the outbreak of AI computing power, and have successively added high-speed copper connection concept stocks. (Securities Times)Imperial Commercial Bank of Canada: cut the preferential loan interest rate in Canada by 50 basis points to 5.45%.

Bank of America promoted 387 new managing directors, an increase of 16% compared with last year. According to informed sources, Bank of America promoted 387 employees to managing directors, an increase of 16% compared with last year's total. People familiar with the matter said that more than half of those promoted to managing director were women or ethnic minorities.US stocks closed: Nasdaq stood at 20,000 points for the first time in history, and star technology stocks such as Google and Tesla hit record highs. US stocks closed mixed, with the Dow down 0.22%, the S&P 500 index up 0.82% and the Nasdaq up 1.77%, breaking through 20,000 points for the first time and hitting a new record high. Star technology stocks are climbing, with Tesla, Google, Amazon, Meta and Netflix all hitting record highs. Among them, Tesla and Google rose by nearly 6%, while Amazon, Meta and Nai soared by more than 2%. Bitcoin regained its position of $100,000, and cryptocurrency concept stocks soared collectively. MicroStrategy rose by more than 9%, Riot Platforms rose by more than 6%, and Bit Digital and Coinbase rose by nearly 4%. Gold and silver mining stocks generally rose, Cordillen Mining rose more than 5%, Pan American Silver rose more than 3%, and harmony Gold and Hekela Mining rose nearly 3%.Christopher Babers, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, resigned. He will announce the news at the staff meeting. The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a statement saying that FBI Director Ray will resign at the end of the current government.

FBI Director Wray will resign before Trump takes office, ending his term ahead of schedule. Christopher Wray, director of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), announced that he will resign before President-elect Trump takes office (sworn in on January 20, 2025), ending his historic and turbulent term as the head of the highest law enforcement agency in the United States ahead of schedule. Wray said in a statement that he plans to resign at the end of Biden's presidency next month. Trump, who will take office on January 20, made it clear that he will not be allowed to continue as the director of the FBI, although Wray's 10-year term will not end until 2027. Trump posted on Truth Social on November 30th that he planned to nominate loyal ally Kash Patel as the director of the FBI.The US dollar index rose on the 11th. The US dollar index, which measures the US dollar against six major currencies, rose by 0.29% that day and closed at 106.710 in the foreign exchange market. As of the end of the new york foreign exchange market, 1 euro was exchanged for 1.0492 US dollars, lower than 1.0527 US dollars in the previous trading day; One pound was exchanged for $1.2745, down from $1.2774 in the previous trading day. One dollar was exchanged for 152.65 yen, higher than 151.93 yen in the previous trading day; One dollar was exchanged for 0.8848 Swiss francs, higher than 0.8829 Swiss francs in the previous trading day; 1 dollar to 1.4162 Canadian dollars, down from 1.4165 Canadian dollars in the previous trading day; One dollar was exchanged for SEK 10.9791, higher than SEK 10.9750 in the previous trading day.Securities Daily: Vigorously boosting consumption is the focus of macro-policy at present. The the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee meeting held on December 9 pointed out that it is necessary to vigorously boost consumption, improve investment efficiency and expand domestic demand in all directions. At present, China is in the stage of rapid growth of service consumption. In the future, all parties should continuously optimize and expand service supply, better stimulate the endogenous kinetic energy of service consumption, and provide strong support for expanding domestic demand and stimulating the economy. Promoting consumption is the main starting point for expanding domestic demand, and boosting consumption is the focus of macroeconomic policy. We firmly believe that with the continuous efforts of various policy initiatives, consumer confidence will continue to increase and consumption potential will continue to be released.