Citigroup: It is expected that the gold and silver markets will resume their gradual upward trend within 3-12 months, reaching $3,000/ounce and $36/ounce respectively. Under basic conditions, it is expected that the price of crude oil will gradually drop to 60 USD/barrel in the middle of 2025, and will remain near this level in the second half of 2025 and 2026.According to the survey of Monetary Authority of Singapore, 33% people expect that the slope of Singapore's exchange rate will be lowered in the January monetary policy evaluation (previously 50%).Sony group's share price hit a record high in intraday trading.
IDC: It is estimated that the edge cloud market in China will grow at a compound annual rate of over 25% from 2023 to 2028. Recently, the latest report "China Edge Cloud Market Tracking Research, 2024H1" released by International Data Corporation (IDC) shows that in the first half of the year, the edge cloud market in China totaled 5.48 billion yuan, with a year-on-year growth rate of 21.0%. Among them, the market scale of edge public cloud services, edge exclusive cloud services and edge cloud solutions reached 3 billion yuan, 970 million yuan and 1.5 billion yuan respectively. According to IDC, it is estimated that the average annual compound growth rate of China's edge cloud market will be 25.5% from 2023 to 2028, taking into account the changing trend of customer expenditure in major industries, the commercialization progress of hot demand and the changes of bandwidth supply policy throughout the year.Before the Bank of Japan's policy meeting, it released chaotic signals. Japanese traders were confused about when to raise interest rates. After the Bank of Japan officials' remarks and media reports sent different signals, traders have been confused about when the central bank might raise interest rates in the past week. This kind of confusion led to sharp fluctuations in the market's interest rate hike bets. The overnight index swap pricing showed that the probability of raising interest rates in December was 22%, which was significantly lower than 60% at the beginning of last week. This week, the yen fell from 150 last Friday to a low of 152.18 to the dollar, and the exchange rate was 151.73 at 10:40 Tokyo time. Kazuo Ueda, governor of the Bank of Japan, said in an interview last month that the interest rate hike was approaching. A few days later, a report by the news agency emphasized the concern of the central bank about raising interest rates prematurely. Tomaki Nakamura, a member of the Dove Policy Committee, said last week that he was not opposed to raising interest rates, but this month's policy decision must consider data factors.Starbucks China responded to the new Chief Growth Officer: promoting the sustainable development of Starbucks brand in China. Recently, some media reported that the management of Starbucks China continued to adjust and hired CGO to manage the growth from digital marketing companies. In response to the above information, Sina Technology verified Starbucks, and the official response said: China is Starbucks' largest international market and an important engine for the company's future growth. In November, Starbucks China established the Chief Growth Officer (CGO) organization and appointed Tony Yang as the company's Chief Growth Officer (CGO). The establishment of CGO organization will continue to strengthen Starbucks' coffee leadership, accelerate the product innovation with coffee as the core, better refresh customers' Starbucks experience at various contacts through integrated marketing strategies, and promote the sustainable development of Starbucks brand in China. (Sina Technology)
Treasury futures closed in early trading, with the main contract of 2-year Treasury futures (TS) falling by 0.06%, 5-year Treasury futures (TF) falling by 0.13%, 10-year Treasury futures (T) falling by 0.15% and 30-year Treasury futures (TL) falling by 0.26%.Gold prices rose three times in a row, and brands such as Chow Tai Fook and Lao Fengxiang broke through 810 yuan. After a short-term shock, the gold trend became stronger. On December 11th, spot gold hit $2,700 per ounce, hitting a two-week high and rising for three consecutive days. As of press time, COMEX Gold reported $2,737.5 per ounce, up 0.7% in the day. In the domestic gold consumption market, the gold prices of gold brands such as Chow Tai Fook, Lao Fengxiang and Luk Fook Jewelry reached 812 yuan/gram, while the gold prices in Zhou Shengsheng reached 814 yuan/gram. (Dahe Finance Cube)Date of hearing the liquidation petition of R&F Property's subsidiary. On Wednesday, the Hong Kong court postponed the date of hearing the liquidation petition to December 16th, when representatives of R&F Properties (Hong Kong) will go to court with lawyers of Seatown Holdings Private Equity Fund. Seatown Holdings is supported by Singapore Temasek Holdings.