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Reuters survey: 56 out of 97 economists said that the Federal Reserve will cut the federal funds rate to 3.50%-3.75% or lower by the end of 2025 (70 out of 99 economists in November).Citigroup's chief financial officer said that investment banking fees may increase by 25% to 30% year-on-year. Income guidance is maintained at the high end of the range of $80 billion to $81 billion.The central bank will buy more than 4 tons of gold after half a year. Will the price of gold rise? According to the latest data from the Bank of China, the official gold reserve of China at the end of November 2024 was 72.96 million ounces, an increase of 160,000 ounces (about 4.54 tons) compared with the end of October, which means that the People's Bank of China increased its holdings of gold for the first time in half a year. Why did the central bank buy gold again after half a year? What is the trend of the subsequent gold price? Guo Zhongwei, chief analyst of non-ferrous industry in Zhongtai Securities, said in an interview that the uncertainty of the global situation has increased recently, especially Trump is about to officially take office as president of the United States, or the anti-globalization trend has been intensified, thus increasing the instability of the external environment. In this context, increasing gold holdings will help to enhance the security of China's reserve assets. . The market generally believes that the resumption of gold purchase by the Bank of China resonates with the global interest rate cut cycle, and the increase in holdings is significantly higher than the level of the last gold purchase before the suspension, which not only strongly supports the gold price, but also greatly boosts the market's confidence in the market outlook. (The country is a through train)

Market news: Egypt calls for a comprehensive political process in Syria.EUR/GBP fell 0.3% to 0.8249, the lowest point since March 2022.Exposing the MacBookPro without bangs was launched in 2026. According to the report of Omdia, a research institute, Apple plans to make a major design update for the MacBook Pro in 2026, when OLED screens will be introduced and a new appearance without bangs will be adopted. This will also be the biggest design change of the MacBook Pro since 2021. The 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro will adopt a hole-digging front camera design to replace the existing Liu Haiping design. Before 2026, there will be no major revision of the MacBook Pro.

Hershey: After Michael Del Bozo leaves, CEO Michelle Barker will temporarily take over the American candy business. A successor will be sought from internal and external candidates.Repeated calls for performance compensation exceeding 500 million yuan failed. On December 10th, Runbang Co., Ltd. (002483.SZ, share price of 5.57 yuan, market value of 4.938 billion yuan) disclosed that the company recently filed a lawsuit with Wang Chunshan, a performance compensation obligor, to the Intermediate People's Court of Nantong City, Jiangsu Province, which was accepted. It is worth mentioning that Runbang shares received a letter of inquiry before, and the CSI Small and Medium Investor Service Center asked the company to explain what specific measures have been taken to solve the unfulfilled performance commitments in 2023 and the current progress, as well as the reasons why judicial measures have not been taken to recover. According to the announcement, on February 20, 2019, Runbang shares purchased 73.36% equity of Hubei CNPC Youyi Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "CNPC Environmental Protection") by way of issuing shares, with 990 million yuan in equity transfer price and 9 individuals and enterprises including Wang Chunshan as the counterparty. On the same day, Runbang Co., Ltd. and Wang Chunshan, the performance promise party, signed the Performance Compensation Agreement, and since then, both parties have successively signed two supplementary agreements. Wang Chunshan, as the performance promisor, promised that the net profit of the target company (whichever is lower before and after deducting the non-recurring gains and losses) under the consolidated income statement audited by an accounting firm entrusted by a listed company in compliance with the securities law from 2019 to 2023 should not be less than 130 million yuan, 50 million yuan, 160 million yuan, 190 million yuan and 218 million yuan respectively. (per meridian)Lvkang Biochemical: The transaction price of selling 9.7768% equity of Pucheng Rural Credit Cooperative was 23.27 million yuan. Lvkang Biochemical announced that the company held the board of directors and the board of supervisors on December 9, 2024, and deliberated and passed the proposal of selling 9.7768% equity of Pucheng Rural Credit Cooperative. The equity will be transferred to Fujian Putan Thermal Energy Co., Ltd. at a transfer price of 23.27 million yuan. After the transaction is completed, the company will no longer hold the equity of Pucheng Rural Credit Cooperative. The transaction still needs to be approved by the financial supervision department and submitted to the shareholders' meeting for deliberation.