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Pimco and Fidelity believe that the economic outlook in the euro zone is weak, and the European Central Bank has cut interest rates by more than market expectations. Investors such as Pimco and Fidelity International believe that the economic outlook in Europe is bleak, which may force policymakers to cut interest rates by more than market expectations. The latest market pricing shows that the European Central Bank is expected to cut its key interest rate to 1.75% next year. The bank cut interest rates for the third time in a row on Thursday, to 3%. However, Fidelity said that the borrowing cost may be further reduced to 1.5%, and Pimco also believed that there was a risk of a larger interest rate cut. Further repricing may aggravate the rise of European bonds, which have outperformed the US and UK bond markets in 2024. A Bloomberg index, which tracks the return of euro bonds, has risen by more than 3% this year, while the corresponding indexes of US bonds and British bonds have risen by 2% and fallen by 2% respectively. "Market expectations are still more hawkish than we expected," said Salman Ahmed, global head of macro and strategic asset allocation at Fidelity. "If downside risks become a reality, then the European Central Bank may cut interest rates further." The retail price of refined oil may end up stranded. According to calculation, as of the seventh working day on December 13th, the average price of reference crude oil varieties was 70.58 USD/barrel, with a change rate of -0.87%, and the corresponding domestic retail price of gasoline and diesel should be lowered by 40 yuan/ton. At 24: 00 on December 18th, it is the last price adjustment window of the retail price in 2024, so the retail price is likely to end stranded. By December 13th, 2024, the domestic retail price of gasoline and diesel had experienced "9 up, 9 down and 6 stranded". After the fluctuation offset, gasoline and diesel (standard products) were reduced by 115 yuan/ton and 125 yuan/ton respectively. (Jin Lianchuang)

A number of officials from Turkey and Qatar will visit Syria to meet with the Syrian transitional government. On the 12th local time, the Syrian Ministry of Information announced that the Turkish Foreign Minister, the head of the intelligence department and the head of Qatar's national security department will visit Syria and meet with the leader of the Sharm el-Liberation Organization, Giulani, and the caretaker Prime Minister of the Syrian transitional government, Bashir. Up to now, Turkish and Qatar officials have not announced relevant news.Turkish Foreign Minister held talks with US Secretary of State to discuss the situation in Syria. On December 13th, local time, Turkish Foreign Minister Feidan held talks with US Secretary of State Blinken, focusing on the latest development of the situation in Syria. Feidan said that the talks discussed the cooperation between Turkey and the United States. The primary task of the two countries is to ensure the stability of Syria and prevent extremist organizations "Islamic State" and the PKK from occupying a dominant position in Syria. In addition, the advancement of the armed "Syrian National Army" supported by Turkey in the region is also one of the topics. Blinken revealed that the United States and Turkey have reached a broad consensus on the future of Syria. The two sides discussed the future role of the United States and Turkey in Syria and the necessity of continuing efforts to crack down on the extremist organization "Islamic State". (CCTV News)Qin Xinghua, Anneng Logistics: Under the general tone of "Striving for Progress in Stability", the logistics industry is welcoming new opportunities for development. The Central Economic Work Conference was held in Beijing from December 11 to 12. The conference analyzed the current economic situation and deployed economic work in 2025. Qin Xinghua, founder, CEO and president of Anneng Logistics, said that this meeting has made various plans for economic work next year, and a comprehensive and systematic layout is of great significance to the overall improvement and sustainable development of the economy. The meeting put forward key measures such as "solidly promoting high-quality development", "expanding domestic demand in all directions" and establishing the implementation of "more active fiscal policy" and "moderately loose monetary policy", and finalized the general tone of "striving for progress while maintaining stability" for economic development in 2025. It is foreseeable that the economic and social development situation will be stable and good next year, and the high-quality development trend will become more prominent. "As an important link in the economic development chain, the logistics industry will usher in new development opportunities under this economic background." Qin Xinghua was encouraged by the development of the enterprise.

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.Four departments: By 2027, the digital transformation of specialized and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises should be completely reformed. 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). According to the notice, by 2027, the "100-city" pilot project for the digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises has achieved solid results, and the digital transformation of specialized and special small and medium-sized enterprises should be completely reformed, forming a number of transformation benchmarks with a digital level of three or four; The digital level of the pilot provincial-level specialized and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises has reached the second level and above, and the numerical control rate of key processes of industrial small and medium-sized enterprises in the country has reached 75%; The cloud access rate of small and medium-sized enterprises exceeds 40%. Initially build a digital transformation ecology of small and medium-sized enterprises, which is coordinated by the Ministry and the province, the integration of large and medium-sized enterprises, the adaptation of supply and demand in key scenes, and the strong public service guarantee, and empower small and medium-sized enterprises to specialize in special new development.Ping An, China: From January to November, the accumulated property insurance premium income was 292.3 billion yuan.