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The compound annual growth rate of average daily turnover is 30%. The ETF market in Hong Kong is growing rapidly. The compound annual growth rate of average daily turnover in the past five years is as high as 30%, and the average daily turnover in the first 11 months of this year reached HK$ 18.7 billion. According to HKEx, Hong Kong ETF market will continue to innovate and expand with diversified product selection, market structure optimization and international cooperation."High-end liquor" was actually produced in a small workshop in a ravine. The police cracked a case of manufacturing and selling fake liquor across three provinces. The so-called high-end liquor was actually produced in a small workshop where garbage was everywhere in a remote ravine, and the price from production to sale was dozens of times. The police in Fuzhou, Jiangxi Province cracked a case of manufacturing and selling counterfeit liquor across Hubei, Henan and Jiangxi, arrested five suspects at the scene and seized more than 30 boxes of high-grade liquor such as counterfeit Maotai, Wuliangye and Jiannanchun. (CCTV News)Trump: The Middle East issue is easier to solve than the Russian-Ukrainian issue. Trump was interviewed by Time magazine in the United States. One of the questions was: "It is reported that you told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that you wanted him to end the Gaza war before you took office. What did he say about it? " Trump replied: "Before I talk about this issue, I think the Middle East issue is easier to deal with than the situation in Russia and Ukraine ... As we talk, things in the Middle East are going on very productively." However, Trump refused to disclose what exactly "something productive is happening" means. Asked whether he supports the "two-state solution" to the Palestinian-Israeli issue, Trump said: "I support the peace plan, which can take different forms. When I wrote the Abraham Agreement, it should have covered many people. "

Zhang Liling, Assistant Managing Director (Economic Research) of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, will leave in May next year. On December 13th, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority announced that Ms. Zhang Liling, Assistant Managing Director (Economic Research), has resigned for personal reasons and will leave in May 2025. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority will arrange an open recruitment for the post of Assistant President (Economic Research), and will make a separate announcement after the recruitment process is completed.Four departments: Strengthen the application and promotion of artificial intelligence in small and medium-sized enterprises and build a number of vertical industry models suitable for small and medium-sized enterprises. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Finance, the People's Bank of China and the General Administration of Financial Supervision issued the Special Action Plan for Digital Empowerment of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (2025-2027) to strengthen the application and promotion of artificial intelligence in small and medium-sized enterprises. Give play to the platform role of on-site exchange activities in pilot cities of digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises, publicize and promote typical application scenarios and solutions of artificial intelligence to empower small and medium-sized enterprises, and accelerate the replication and promotion of artificial intelligence applications in small and medium-sized enterprises. Encourage all localities to refer to the typical application cases and application maps of artificial intelligence in small and medium-sized enterprises, and promote the popularization of artificial intelligence technology in key business scenarios of small and medium-sized enterprises such as R&D design, manufacturing, quality inspection, operation and maintenance, and management. Strengthen the application foundation of artificial intelligence in small and medium-sized enterprises. Support open source communities such as the Open Atomic Open Source Foundation to take the lead in establishing an artificial intelligence open source community, set up special artificial intelligence open source projects focusing on the characteristic needs of small and medium-sized enterprises, and provide training frameworks, development examples, testing tools and open source codes that can be replicated and easily promoted. Guide small and medium-sized enterprises to actively participate in open source projects and lower the threshold for the deployment and development of artificial intelligence. Encourage leading enterprises, trading institutions, platform enterprises, data service enterprises and other business entities to build public data sets and industry data sets, and provide high-quality data for small and medium-sized enterprises for artificial intelligence model training. Build a number of vertical industry models suitable for small and medium-sized enterprises, and strengthen the supply of large model technology products for small and medium-sized enterprises.Ecb governing Committee Escriva: it is logical to further cut interest rates at the next monetary meeting. If the basic scenario remains unchanged, interest rates will continue to be cut. The general idea yesterday was to continue to cut interest rates by 25 basis points. The lack of vitality in the European economy is a challenge.

Barclays: Raise the target price of Standard Chartered from 940p to 970p.Pacific Securities: Goldwind Technology's performance is expected to achieve rapid growth, with the first "buy" rating. Pacific Securities Research Report pointed out that with the profit recovery of wind turbine business and the contribution of wind farm investment and development and wind power service business, Goldwind Technology's (002202.SZ) performance is expected to achieve rapid growth. The first coverage gives a "buy" rating. Goldwind Technology has ranked first in the domestic wind power market for 13 consecutive years since 2011; However, in recent years, under the strong competitive pressure of wind turbine enterprises after the second line, their market share has declined. In the future, with the increase of market concentration, Goldwind Technology, as a leader, is expected to increase its share. At the end of the third quarter of 2024, the company's external order volume was 41.38GW, and sufficient in-hand order volume supported its share increase.Spot gold fell $6 in the short term and is now reported at $2,676 per ounce.