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HSBC: The Bank of Japan may raise interest rates next week. Economists at HSBC Global Research pointed out that the Bank of Japan may raise interest rates at its meeting in December. Frederic Neumann and Jun Takazawa, the bank's economists, said that the recent hawkish remarks by officials reflected both foreign exchange fluctuations and the improvement of economic data. Most members of the Bank of Japan's Policy Committee may have enough confidence that wages will continue to increase generally next year and will choose to raise interest rates before December and January, when Trump takes office. Japan's economy and prices are still on the normal track, and wages, consumption and service inflation have all made progress. HSBC predicts that the Bank of Japan will raise interest rates by 25 basis points again in the first quarter of 2026, bringing the policy interest rate to 1%.Testimony of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: A few days ago, a tectonic event happened here-an earthquake that has never happened in a hundred years. We have changed the face of the Middle East, but it has an impact on all big countries. This incident needs to be noted when testifying and needs my attention.Yunnan Statistics Bureau: The burden of labor support in Yunnan is relatively light, and the demographic dividend is better than that in the whole country. Recently, the series of reports on the achievements of Yunnan's economic and social development in 75 years in New China released by Yunnan Statistics Bureau concluded that the age structure of Yunnan's population is better than that in the whole country, and the demographic dividend still exists. On the whole, the age structure of Yunnan population is better than that of the whole country, and the labor resources are abundant. The total dependency ratio (43.4%) is lower than the national average level (46.5%), the dependency burden of the labor force is relatively lighter than that of the whole country, and the demographic dividend is better than that of the whole country. (The Paper)

Beijing Securities Regulatory Bureau: issued a warning letter to Yu Shunkun, an independent director of China Resources Shuanghe. On December 10th, the website of Beijing Securities Regulatory Bureau issued a decision on issuing a warning letter to Yu Shunkun. After investigation, during his tenure as an independent director of China Resources Shuanghe, Yu Shunkun bought 10,000 shares of China Resources Shuanghe from July 15th, 2024 to July 19th, 2024, with a transaction amount of 174 400 yuan, and sold them. The above acts violated the provisions of Article 44 of the Securities Law. According to the provisions of Article 170 of the Securities Law, the Beijing Securities Regulatory Bureau decided to take administrative supervision measures to issue a warning letter to Yu Shunkun.The Hang Seng Science and Technology Index fell, having previously risen by more than 4%; The increase of Hang Seng Index narrowed to 0.4%, after rising by more than 3%.The net sales of southbound funds exceeded HK$ 4 billion.

In the afternoon, the downward trend of spot bond interest rate expanded, and the downward trend of spot bond interest rate expanded. The yield of 10-year treasury bonds was 5.25bp to 1.8525%, the yield of ultra-long-term treasury bonds was 4.25bp to 2.0675%, and the yield of 10-year CDB bonds was 5bp to 1.92%.The latest development of quantum computing research: A new generation of quantum chips can improve the quantum error-correcting function. The internationally renowned academic journal Nature recently published a quantum computing paper saying that the latest generation of quantum chips of Google Quantum AI can realize the quantum error-correcting function of suppressing errors below a critical threshold, which is considered to be a necessary condition for realizing the practical application of quantum computing in the future. Researchers believe that the performance expansion of the latest generation of quantum chips may promote the operational requirements of large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computing. (Zhongxin. com)Chongqing State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission: Resolutely lay a solid foundation for comprehensively deepening the reform of state-owned enterprises and accelerate strategic restructuring and professional integration. Chongqing State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission officially announced today that on December 9, Chongqing State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission held a December 2024 economic operation scheduling meeting for municipal key state-owned enterprises. The meeting stressed that it is necessary to resolutely fight a tough battle to comprehensively deepen the reform of state-owned enterprises in light of the landmark achievements of the "five new breakthroughs." It is necessary to promote the reshaping of the main business of the group to achieve a "new breakthrough", focus on the reshaping of the main business of the group, further sort out the business of the sub-enterprises, effectively support the core functions and main business of the group, and enhance the core competitiveness; Promote "new breakthroughs" in stopping losses and controlling losses, further promote structural adjustment, reduce costs and increase efficiency, and revitalize assets, and strive to control the losses of municipal state-owned enterprises at the target ratio by the end of the year; Promote slimming and fitness to achieve a "new breakthrough", accelerate strategic restructuring and professional integration, and accelerate the reduction of the number of legal entities and reduce the management level of enterprises in accordance with the requirements of reduction. It is necessary to focus on the most realistic and urgent problems that restrict high-quality development, and promote state-owned state-owned enterprises to further comprehensively deepen reforms.