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The price of natural gas futures in the United States continued to rise, with an increase of 5%.Schneider, former CEO of Nestle, was nominated to join the supervisory board of Siemens.Fitch: The progress of inflation decline seems to have ended. Brian Coulton, chief economist of Fitch, said that the decline of core commodity prices (the main force of inflation decline this year) seems to have ended. With the increase of automobile prices, the core commodity prices rose by 0.3% month-on-month. Service inflation is declining, but the rate of decline is very slow, because rent inflation is stubborn, and the service inflation is 4.6%, which is still far higher than the pre-epidemic level.

Russian Presidential Press Secretary: The telephone conversation between Putin and Trump has not been prepared yet. On December 11th, local time, Russian Presidential Press Secretary peskov said that there is no telephone conversation between Russian President Putin and US President-elect Trump at present, and Russia is waiting for Trump's inauguration ceremony on January 20th next year. Peskov also said that at present, Russia has no plans to hold a summit meeting with Turkish and Iranian leaders on the Syrian situation, Putin's visit to Turkey "has not yet been finalized" and he is not ready to meet with Hungarian Prime Minister Orban. (CCTV News)The short-term decline of USD/CAD against Canadian dollar further expanded to nearly 70 points, and it is now reported at 1.4138.If the Bank of Canada cuts interest rates by 50bp as expected, it is expected that the pace of interest rate cuts will slow down. The Bank of Canada cut interest rates sharply for the second time in a row this month, and hinted that policymakers are prepared to slow down the pace of monetary easing. The bank cut interest rates by 50 basis points to 3.25%, bringing borrowing costs to the upper part of their expected range of neutral interest rates. However, they also hinted that after the sharp interest rate cut expected by the market and most economists, there may be a smaller interest rate cut again in 2025. Officials dropped their previous statement that they expected to further reduce borrowing costs. "With the policy interest rate greatly reduced, we expect that if the economic development is generally in line with expectations, monetary policy will adopt a more gradual approach," Bank of Canada Governor Mackler said in a prepared speech. "Looking ahead, we will evaluate the necessity of further reducing the policy interest rate one by one."

China plans to build about 10,000 superior specialties of traditional Chinese medicine by 2029. The reporter learned from state administration of traditional chinese medicine on the 11th that China will promote the construction of superior specialties of traditional Chinese medicine at different levels to further improve the clinical efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine. By 2029, a network of superior specialties of traditional Chinese medicine with complete professional fields, wide geographical coverage, reasonable structural layout and obvious characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine will be formed, and the overall scale of superior specialties of traditional Chinese medicine in China will reach about 10,000. (Xinhua News Agency)Russian President Vladimir Putin: External sanctions are pushing Russia to develop artificial intelligence solutions.Market News: The US CPI report in November may suggest that the core PCE index, the inflation indicator favored by the Federal Reserve, may rise slightly to 2.9% in the last two months of 2024.