USD/JPY of USD/JPY continued to rise, breaking through the 152 mark, and now it is up by 0.04%, after falling by 0.5%.Goldman Sachs believes that there will be more large-scale strategic transactions in 2025. Dennis Coleman, chief financial officer of Goldman Sachs, said on Tuesday that it is expected that the company's "strategic" transactions will accelerate in 2025, including large-scale mergers and acquisitions. He said: "The intensity of our dialogue with customers is accelerating, and some aspects of the overall strategic activities are becoming more obvious. The confidence of the CEO and customers will certainly increase, and they think there may be more and larger transactions and more strategic activities. "Agricultural Bank of China took the lead in setting up the largest ESG-linked RMB syndicated loan for China Aluminum Industry in China. Recently, Agricultural Bank seized the opportunity of "two innovations" policy, initiated the service scheme of "sustainable development-linked syndicated loan+equipment renewal loan" in the industry, and successfully won the bid for the lead bank, agent bank and sustainable development coordination bank of China Aluminum Industry's 500,000-ton 600-ka electrolyzer capacity replacement and upgrading project. It is understood that the project uses the world's advanced electrolytic aluminum equipment technology to replace the original production capacity, which will greatly reduce the production energy consumption of enterprises and increase the proportion of clean energy use. At present, it has been included in the list of technical transformation and equipment renewal refinancing projects of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. (Zhongxin. com)
CEO of Goldman Sachs (GS.N): I believe that the new government's decision on tariffs will be made in a way around growth.The security department of the South Korean Presidential Palace confronted the investigation team for more than five hours. The special investigation team of emergency martial law of the National Investigation Headquarters of the South Korean police tried to detain and search the South Korean Presidential Palace today (December 11), but due to the failure to reach an agreement with the security department of the Presidential Palace on the search method, as of 17: 00 local time, the investigators still did not enter the Presidential Palace. In response to this situation, a spokesman for the Common Democratic Party, the largest opposition party in South Korea, said that "the behavior of the security guard that hinders the seizure and search of the presidential palace belongs to the behavior of protecting the leaders of civil strife, which is equivalent to participating in civil strife." (CCTV International News)World Meteorological Organization: The possibility of La Niñ a phenomenon in the next three months is more than half. On the 11th local time, the World Meteorological Organization released the latest forecast. From December 2024 to February 2025, there will be a 55% possibility of changing from the current neutral state of neither El Niñ o nor La Niñ a phenomenon to La Niñ a phenomenon, but its intensity is expected to be relatively weak and its duration is short. (CCTV News)
Bank of Japan officials believe that there is little risk that the depreciation of the yen will push up inflationary pressure at this stage.United States Department of Agriculture (USDA): It is estimated that the total inventory of wheat in the United States at the end of the period will be 795 million bushels, and analysts expect 815.08 million bushels. USDA had previously expected 815 million bushels.Since 2024, 27 new funds have been established in the US municipal bond ETF market, setting an annual record high. New members include PGIM and Rockefeller Asset Management. However, in the $142 billion municipal bond ETF market, the asset management scale of many ETFs is less than $50 million.