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The Japanese yen faces new risks. Strategists worry that the Bank of Japan may wait until March or later to raise interest rates. A new risk is emerging for the Japanese yen. Foreign exchange strategists in Tokyo warn that the Bank of Japan may wait until March or later next year to raise interest rates. On Wednesday, the market tasted this danger, and the yen fell to its lowest level in more than two weeks as traders responded to a Bloomberg report that the Bank of Japan is known to think that it is no harm to raise interest rates later. The yen only fell to 152.82 against the dollar, and the market is still debating whether the Bank of Japan will take action at its next meeting on December 19 or about a month later. Shusuke Yamada, head of Japan's foreign exchange and interest rate strategy at Bank of America in Tokyo, said that if policymakers put off raising interest rates for a longer time, the situation would be very different. "If the interest rate hike is postponed until March, the yen carry trade is likely to make a comeback," Yamada said on Thursday. "The yen is likely to fall again to a level just below the 157 mark hit in 155 or November."The Polish minister said that Poland hopes that more countries will participate in Baltic policing, the EU must spend at least 100 billion euros on national defense, and the conditions for sending Polish MIG -29 fighters to Ukraine have not been met.Leshan Guotou Group and others set up an industrial guidance equity investment fund with a capital contribution of 4.5 billion yuan. According to Tianyancha App, recently, Leshan Jiarong Industrial Guidance Equity Investment Fund Partnership (Limited Partnership) was established, and the executive partner is Leshan Guorong Equity Investment Fund Management Co., Ltd., with a capital contribution of 4.5 billion yuan, and its business scope includes investment activities with its own funds. According to the partner information, the fund is jointly funded by Leshan State-owned Assets Investment and Operation (Group) Co., Ltd., Leshan Finance Bureau and Leshan Guorong Equity Investment Fund Management Co., Ltd.

For the first time, Nanjing Port docked with container ships of "longest ship scale" and "maximum load". Today (December 12th) morning, the largest container ship that entered the port since the opening of Nanjing Port, Panamanian vessel "Mai Di Hong Wei", successfully docked at Longtan Container Terminal, setting a new "double historical record" for the longest scale and maximum load of container ships entering the port. It is understood that the ship is 208.3 meters long, 29.8 meters wide and 33,715 tons deadweight. This voyage is a direct flight from Europe to Nanjing, which will directly increase the maximum container capacity of incoming ships from the current 1938TEU (standard container) to 2600TEU. The successful berthing indicates that 30,000-ton container ships can enter and leave Nanjing Port normally. (CCTV News)Russia is willing to engage with the United States on the Ukrainian issue. Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Zacharova said at a regular press conference on the 11th that Russia is willing to engage with the United States on the Ukrainian issue, but has not received any "serious suggestions" from the team of President-elect Trump.Hong Kong Stock Exchange: Before the end of 2025, the system will be technically compatible with the T+1 settlement cycle. The Hong Kong Stock Exchange announced on December 12 that it will launch a plan to improve the post-trading service of the stock spot market. Starting from mid-2025, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange will gradually introduce new post-trading functions on its OCP. The new functions include automatic report downloading and information exchange, real-time transmission and processing of transaction data, related positions and reference data, and real-time delivery instruction pairing. As part of the whole platform upgrade plan, HKEx will ensure that its system is technically compatible with the T+1 settlement cycle by the end of 2025. However, what kind of settlement cycle will be adopted in Hong Kong in the future will be decided after market discussion.

During the "slimming" of the brokerage business department, more than 100 companies were cancelled during the year, and the competition turned to differentiated services. The brokerage business of brokerage companies is welcoming a new round of changes. In the past few days, a number of brokers have announced the cancellation of their relevant business departments. According to the reporter's incomplete statistics, in the past two weeks, many brokers such as Nanjing Securities, Guosen Securities and Pacific Securities announced that they would "streamline" their business departments. Looking at it for a long time, more than 35 brokers have issued announcements during the year, "downsizing" hundreds of business departments. Insiders pointed out that the traditional offline outlet business development model has increasingly shown drawbacks and high cost pressure; At the same time, more and more customers rely on online transactions and mobile terminal transactions, so it is imperative to "streamline" the business department to reduce costs and increase efficiency. Future competition depends more on differentiated financial management and trading services. (Shell Finance)Reuters survey: the short bet of won is at the highest level since October 20, 2022; Indian Rupee's short bet reached the highest level since November 17, 2022; Investors reduced their short bets on Philippine peso, Indonesian rupiah, Thai baht and Singapore dollar.EU finalizes new sanctions against Russia: strike against the "shadow fleet". According to a report on the website of the German newspaper Sü ddeutsche Zeitung on December 11th, EU countries have reached an agreement on a new package of sanctions against Russia. Several diplomats told DPA that the new sanctions were aimed at strengthening the crackdown on the so-called "Russian shadow fleet" transporting oil and petroleum products. It is reported that more than 50 ships will be banned from entering EU ports. In addition, they can no longer get the services of EU enterprises. In June this year, the EU has taken preliminary measures to blacklist more than 20 Russian ships. It is reported that this is the 15th package of sanctions against Russia drawn up by the EU so far. The plan also stipulates that trade with more than 30 other business entities should be restricted, and the EU has determined that they should keep in touch with Russian defense and security departments. In addition, the EU also plans to impose an entry ban and asset freeze on some individuals. According to the report, senior EU officials are pleased that member States have reached a consensus on this. Kaya Karas, the EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, said: "This will further weaken (Russian President) Putin's war machine." Roberta Metsola, Speaker of the European Parliament, said: "This sends another strong signal: our support for Ukraine will not weaken." The sanctions plan will be officially confirmed at the meeting of foreign ministers of member States in Brussels on the 16th, and then will be published in the official gazette of the European Union and come into effect. (Reference message)