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US media: Hamas may agree to temporarily stay in Gaza after the ceasefire of the Israeli army. On the 12th, the US media reported that the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) had softened its negotiating position and might agree to temporarily stay in Gaza after the ceasefire. Hamas has not yet responded to this news. (Xinhua News Agency)According to the data released by Shanghai Steel Union, the price of battery-grade lithium carbonate (in early trading) dropped by 100 yuan compared with the previous day, with an average price of 76,350 yuan/ton.Zhejiang: By 2027, the output value of the province's industrial machine tool industry will exceed 150 billion yuan. The Office of the Leading Group for High-quality Development of Manufacturing Industry in Zhejiang Province recently issued the Implementation Plan for High-quality Development of Industrial Machine Tool Industry in Zhejiang Province (2025-2027). The "Implementation Plan" proposes that by 2025, the output value of the province's industrial machine tool industry will exceed 120 billion yuan, making it the highland of the national high-end industrial machine tool industry. Positive results have been achieved in the construction of the national advanced manufacturing cluster of East Zhejiang industrial machine tools, with 30 new "little giant" enterprises specializing in manufacturing and 50 new products. Form a number of application scenarios with national promotion value. By 2027, the output value of the province's industrial machine tool industry will exceed 150 billion yuan, the supporting level of key core technologies and key functional components will be greatly improved, and the level of integrated application will be at the forefront of the country.

Shanghai ranks third in the world! The Global Financial Technology Center Development Index (2024) was released. It was learned from the 6th Shanghai International Forum on Financial Technology that the Shanghai Financial Technology Industry Alliance released the "Global Financial Technology Center Development Index (2024)", which was released for the second consecutive year. The results of this index show that new york, London, Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Tokyo, Chicago, Hong Kong, Singapore and San Francisco rank among the top ten in the world. The index is mainly composed of indicators such as the development level, development potential and development environment of financial technology, which intuitively reflects the development of financial technology in different cities around the world in quantitative form. Compared with the previous index, the list of the top ten cities remains unchanged, but the gap between the index scores of cities has further narrowed, showing the increasingly fierce competition in the development of financial technology in major cities around the world. (CBN)From January to October, the national output of photovoltaic polysilicon, silicon wafers, batteries and components all increased by more than 20% year-on-year. According to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, from January to October 2024, China's photovoltaic industry operated smoothly as a whole. According to the announcement of photovoltaic industry norms, enterprise information and industry associations, the output of photovoltaic polysilicon, silicon wafers, batteries and components in China increased by more than 20% year-on-year, and the export volume of photovoltaic cells increased by more than 40%. In the polysilicon sector, the national output from January to October was about 1.58 million tons, up 39.0% year-on-year. In the silicon wafer link, the national output from January to October was about 608GW, and the export volume was about 53.2GW. In the battery sector, from January to October, the national output of crystalline silicon batteries was about 510GW, and the export volume was about 45.9GW. In terms of components, from January to October, the national output of crystalline silicon components was about 453GW, and the export volume was about 205.9GW.Faba Bank: Some people think that Trump's policies (especially tariffs) will not cause inflation. However, market analysts have been misled and need to take Trump's tariff policy seriously.

The annual evaluation report of the big model in the financial field was released, and the big model of Step Star/Fortune Leap Star performed well. The 6th Shanghai International Forum on Financial Technology was held in Shanghai. At the meeting, Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, together with Shanghai University of Finance and Economics and Shanghai Cooper Technology Co., Ltd., released the Report on Evaluation of Large Models in Financial Field (2024), which comprehensively evaluated 20 models from five dimensions: model basic ability, financial security and value alignment ability, financial risk control ability, financial professional cognitive ability and financial business auxiliary expansion ability. The comprehensive scores of Anthropic, Step Star/Fortune Star and Alibaba ranked in the top three. Step-2-16k model of Step Star/Fortune Star got the second comprehensive score, and the multi-modal comprehensive score of Finstep model got the first.Hong Kong Treasury Bureau: It plans to conduct public consultation on the OTC trading of virtual assets and the licensing system for custody service providers next year. Chen Haolian, deputy director of the Financial Services and Treasury Bureau of the Hong Kong SAR Government, said that it plans to conduct public consultation on the OTC trading of virtual assets and the licensing system for custody service providers next year to promote the sustainable development of different sectors of the virtual asset market. At present, there are three licensed virtual asset trading platforms in Hong Kong, and the Hong Kong Treasury Bureau plans to submit a bill on the supervision system for the issuers of legal tender stable currency to the Legislative Council for deliberation within this month.The EUR/USD of the euro against the US dollar hit a new low since November 26th, and is now reported at 1.0463.