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White House official: Biden talked with King Abdullah of Jordan on Monday.Economist: Pork price, temperature, incremental policies and other factors are expected to push up CPI. Looking forward to the next stage, Wen Bin, chief economist of China Minsheng Bank, predicts that the year-on-year increase of CPI may rebound. With the increase of meat demand in winter, the price of pork will rise seasonally. In addition, the further drop of temperature will affect the production, storage and transportation of fresh vegetables, fresh fruits and other products, which may push up food prices. The domestic package of incremental policies will continue to improve domestic demand and boost consumer confidence, which is expected to boost the core CPI. (Securities Daily)Apollo's flagship private equity fund aims to raise $25 billion.

The overall scale of bonus ETF exceeds 71.1 billion yuan, leading the products to exceed 20 billion yuan. As the largest dividend ETF at present, the scale of Huatai Bairui bonus ETF rose to 20.121 billion yuan on December 6, becoming the first dividend ETF to exceed 20 billion yuan. According to the data, the product takes the dividend index of Shanghai Stock Exchange as the benchmark for performance comparison and adopts the investment strategy of complete replication method. As of December 9, the product had a floating profit of 18.21% during the year. According to incomplete statistics, as of December 9, 13 bonus ETFs have been newly established this year (excluding QDII funds, Hong Kong Stock Connect and other overseas products). On the whole, there are 37 bonus ETF products with a market size of 71.185 billion yuan. (Securities Daily)WTI January crude oil futures closed up 1.17 USD, or 1.74% to 68.37 USD/barrel. Nymex January natural gas futures closed up 3.45% at $3.1820/million British heat.The application of AI continues to deepen and the prosperity of the sector continues to improve. Recently, a number of artificial intelligence companies have intensively released their latest products, and the related concept sectors in the A-share market are active. Analysts believe that overseas AI applications are growing strongly, and the growth potential of domestic AI applications is expected to explode. On the one hand, the performance of the core AI application companies in US stocks has grown rapidly, further strengthening the AI narrative logic; On the other hand, domestic AI application scenarios are more extensive and have achieved good application results in many fields such as education and office. It is suggested to focus on the growth and liquidity of domestic AI applications.

At the end of the year, banks intensively sold certificates of deposit at the highest interest rate of 3%. Near the end of the year, many small and medium-sized banks began to sell certificates of deposit, and the annualized interest rates of some three-year and five-year certificates of deposit could reach more than 2%, even as high as 3%. At the same time, some banks have "raised the deposit interest rate against the trend" to attract depositors. The industry believes that near the end of the year, although some small and medium-sized banks raised deposit interest rates, on the whole, the downward trend of deposit interest rates is a general trend, and there is still room for downward trend in the future. (Securities Daily)Congressional Budget Office (CBO): In October and November 2024 (that is, the first two months of fiscal year 2025), it is estimated that the federal budget deficit will total $622 billion. This amount is $242 billion more than the deficit in the same period of the previous fiscal year.Chief negotiator of Volkswagen: We still had constructive discussions.