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International Monetary Fund: The Executive Committee completed the fourth review of the standby arrangement in Serbia, cancelled the standby arrangement and approved the 36-month policy coordination tool.Barclays: There is a high degree of uncertainty in the US interest rate forecast in 2025. Based on the baseline prospect of a soft landing of the US economy in 2025, Barclays interest rate strategists predict that the yields of 2-year and 10-year government bonds will close at 3.75% and 4.25% respectively next year, and the yield difference between 2s10s will widen by about 50 basis points. According to the report, interest rate cuts should push interest rates down, while longer-term yields are under pressure from factors such as rising neutral interest rates, high interest rate volatility, inflation risk premium and net bond expansion. But the incoming Trump administration will bring "great uncertainty".The regulatory authorities have made a heavy blow to market manipulation. During the year, there have been nine fines with the amount exceeding 100 million yuan. Since the beginning of this year, the CSRC has made a heavy blow to market manipulation. According to public statistics, as of December 9, the CSRC and the local securities regulatory bureaus issued 28 administrative punishment decisions (including 3 advance notices of administrative punishment disclosed by listed companies) for market manipulation during the year, and 61 persons (families) were punished, with a total amount of fines exceeding 2.352 billion yuan. Among them, 9 tickets were fined more than 100 million yuan. In the punishment of market prohibition, there is also a ticket for both identity prohibition and transaction prohibition. (Securities Daily)

Nymex January gasoline futures closed at $1.9525 per gallon, and Nymex January heating oil futures closed at $2.1835 per gallon. Nymex January natural gas futures closed at $3.1820/million british thermal unit.The annual strategy of brokers in 2025 will present "three major consensuses". At the end of recent years, the annual strategies of major brokers in 2025 will be held intensively, focusing on the interpretation of the new year's market, the market trend next year and the discussion and judgment of the allocation direction. Generally speaking, brokers have shown a "consensus" in three major directions. The first consensus is that it is generally believed that the A-share market is expected to become an important place for global capital allocation. In this direction, Chinese and foreign institutions have reached a consensus. The second consensus is to give optimistic expectations for the A-share market in 2025. The confidence of the organization's optimistic expectations lies in the fact that the market sentiment has obviously recovered under the boost of a series of positive policies this year, and there is still room for boosting in the medium and long term perspective. The third consensus is reflected in the direction of industry allocation. The new quality productivity based on semiconductors and computing power, as well as the policy themes based on mergers and acquisitions and market value management, have become a common optimistic track for many brokers. (Securities Daily)International Monetary Fund: The Executive Committee completed the fourth review of the standby arrangement in Serbia, cancelled the standby arrangement and approved the 36-month policy coordination tool.

Chicago soybean futures surged back, falling more than 0.2%. On Monday (December 9) in late new york, the Bloomberg Grain Sub-index rose 0.25% to 31.6525 points. CBOT corn futures rose 0.28% to 4.41-1/4 USD/bushel. CBOT wheat futures rose 0.40% to $ 5.58-1/4 a bushel. CBOT soybean futures fell 0.25% to 9.89-1/2 USD/bushel, rose to a daily high of 10.03-1/2 USD at 22:45 Beijing time, then fell back and refreshed to a daily low of 9.85-3/4 USD; Soybean meal futures rose by 0.59% and soybean oil futures fell by 0.63%.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said: The Golan Heights will always belong to Israel. After the fall of Assad, isolating Hamas opened the door for reaching a hostage agreement. If Hamas is allowed to control and distribute aid, it cannot be eliminated.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said: The Golan Heights will always belong to Israel. After the fall of Assad, isolating Hamas opened the door for reaching a hostage agreement. If Hamas is allowed to control and distribute aid, it cannot be eliminated.