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Citigroup raised the target price of Broadcom from $205.00 to $220.00.Brazil's central bank will provide at least $1 billion in spot dollar auctions. The decline of the Brazilian real against the US dollar narrowed.Shanghai Nickel closed down over 2%, Shanghai Tin fell over 1%, alumina rose about 1%, international copper closed down 0.51%, Shanghai Copper closed down 0.51%, Shanghai Aluminum closed down 0.22%, Shanghai Zinc closed up 0.25%, Shanghai Lead closed down 0.69%, Shanghai Nickel closed down 2.40% and Shanghai Tin closed down 1.62%. Alumina closed up 1.09% at night. Stainless steel night plate closed down 0.92%.

Economists predict that the Fed will only cut interest rates three times next year. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg expect that the Fed will cut interest rates for the third time in a row this month, and lower the expected number of interest rate cuts next year. The market expects Federal Reserve Chairman Powell and his colleagues to cut interest rates by 25 basis points next week. If the expectation is true, it means that interest rates have been lowered by 1 percentage point since September. Next year's interest rate cut will slow down faster than officials expected three months ago. Most economists predict that interest rates will be cut only three times in 2025 because of the small progress in fighting inflation.Porsche: It is confirmed that as of December 31, 2024, the net debt forecast is 5 billion to 5.5 billion euros.European natural gas futures fell by more than 11% this week, and the EU carbon tax fell by about 6%. At the end of the European market on Friday (December 13th), ICE UK natural gas futures fell by 3.41% to 102.560p/kcal, with a cumulative decline of 11.49% this week. TTF benchmark Dutch natural gas futures fell 3.57% to 41.030 Euro/MWh, down 11.67% this week. ICE EU carbon emissions trading license (futures price) fell 2.80% to 64.25 euros/ton, down 5.94% this week.

Dennis Shen, an economist at Scope Ratings: The reasons for the Fed to cut interest rates further after December are obviously reduced. Inflation is still sticky, the economic and financial markets are overheated, and the slight increase in unemployment rate earlier this year has been reversed. The Trump administration may bring more inflation risks in the short term.The S&P 500 index fell, and the Nasdaq 100 index rose to 0.6%.The US media said that Trump proposed that the EU send peacekeepers to Ukraine. On December 12, the US Wall Street Journal quoted people familiar with the matter as saying that US President-elect Trump had proposed that EU member States send peacekeepers to Ukraine to monitor the possible ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia. (CCTV International News)