About 200 people have been killed by gang attacks on civilians in Haiti. Recently, a large-scale violence against civilians in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, has killed about 200 people, most of whom are elderly people. Witnesses said that the massacre continued.Tomato Fiction: In the coming year, 200 million yuan will be invested to support fine content. On December 11th, at the Tomato Fiction Creators' Conference, Tomato Fiction announced that it will invest 200 million yuan in cash to support fine content in 2025, and continue to launch a series of support plans to make efforts in IP ecology. In 2024, tomato novels launched more than 10 support programs, and a total of 120 million yuan of extra bonuses were distributed.Jin Guanping, Economic Daily: Implement more active and promising macro policies. The article points out that the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee held a meeting on December 9 to analyze and study the economic work in 2025, and put forward "implement more active and promising macro policies" and "strengthen unconventional countercyclical adjustment" in view of the macro policy orientation next year, and clearly implement more active fiscal policies and moderately loose monetary policies. This important deployment has released a clear signal of strengthening macro-control and strong and steady growth. Implementing a "more active" fiscal policy means increasing fiscal countercyclical adjustment and improving the effectiveness of fiscal policy while maintaining policy stability and continuity. "Moderately loose" means that monetary policy will better reflect the supportive stance and orientation, maintain a reasonable and sufficient liquidity, and further reduce the comprehensive financing costs of enterprises and residents.
Analyst: There may be a RRR cut of 50 basis points to 100 basis points next year. Tan Yiming, chief fixed income analyst of Minsheng Securities, said that there may be a RRR cut of 50 basis points to 100 basis points next year, considering the supply pressure of government bonds, the restoration of credit supply and the provision of long-term stable low-cost funds for financial institutions.Meituan Enterprise Edition released the SIMPLE model: to meet the demands of enterprise consumption compliance, cost reduction and efficiency improvement, and experience improvement. Meituan Enterprise Edition held the second enterprise consumption management conference of "SIMPLE Activating Enterprise Endogenous Force" in Shanghai. At the meeting, Renmin University Business School, Meituan Enterprise Edition, Meituan Research Institute and Ipsos jointly released the SIMPLE model, focusing on serving enterprise consumption management and digital transformation. At present, the scale of consumption expenditure of enterprises in China has reached trillion level, and "integration of supply chain, scene management and control, and service performance" will become the key to competition in the future. (Sina Technology)Japanese manufacturers' confidence index turned negative to the central bank's forecast in December. A short-term survey in Reuters, Japan, found that Japanese manufacturers' business confidence deteriorated further in December due to concerns about US protectionist policies. The survey of 505 large Japanese non-financial enterprises showed that manufacturers' confidence index fell from 5 in November to -1 in December, which was the first time since last February, and the number of pessimists exceeded optimists for the first time in 10 months. The loss of business confidence may cast a shadow over the Bank of Japan's forecast. The Bank of Japan had previously predicted that a steady recovery driven by rising wages and consumption would help inflation reach the 2% target in a sustainable way and justify further interest rate hikes. Many manufacturing industries have reported that business confidence has declined. Among electronic machinery manufacturers, steel and non-ferrous metal manufacturers, pessimists far exceed optimists.
Goldman Sachs: I don't agree that gold can't reach $3,000 under a strong dollar. Goldman Sachs said that we don't agree with the view that the price of gold can't rise to $3,000 per ounce by the end of 2025 when the dollar remains strong for a long time. We predict that gold will reach $3,000 per ounce by the end of 2025, and the reduction of interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve (rather than the strengthening of the US dollar) is the downside risk of this prediction.Trump appointed TOM BARRACK as the US ambassador to Turkey.South Korean Finance Minister and US Treasury Secretary Yellen confirmed that they will work closely together.