Blinken arrived in Jordan to attend an emergency meeting on Syria. It is reported that US Secretary of State Blinken arrived in Jordan on Thursday to attend an emergency meeting on Syria. Blinken will meet with Jordanian Foreign Minister Assafadi and King Abdullah.Enterprise IT Expenditure Survey: Google Cloud is expected to be the first choice for 50% of the respondents. Tae Kim, a science and technology columnist, wrote that according to a recent survey, Google Cloud has risen rapidly in the enterprise AI expenditure competition and may become the winner. According to the 2025 CIO survey released by Piper Sandler, 81 CIOs were asked about their budget priorities in different suppliers and technical fields. According to the survey, 87% of CIOs surveyed expect to increase the IT budget in 2025, which is the highest proportion of the survey since 2020. In this survey, the status of Google Cloud has risen significantly, surpassing Microsoft and OpenAI to become the "most strategic" AI supplier, with a support rate of 27%, a significant increase from 15% six months ago. Relatively speaking, Microsoft's support rate dropped from 33% to 24%. When asked which cloud company they plan to use to test or implement AI projects next year, 50% of the respondents chose Google Cloud, making it the top AI infrastructure provider. In addition, Harsh Kumar, a Piper semiconductor analyst, pointed out that these results are also beneficial to Invista, because all cloud companies are the main buyers of AI chips in NVIDIA. Kumar estimates that the entire AI chip market will have more than $500 billion in business opportunities by 2028.The news of the US stock market was delivered before the market. ① The three major stock index futures of the US stock market fell, and the market focused on PPI data. ② As of press time, Dow futures fell 0.19%, S&P 500 futures fell 0.18%, and Nasdaq futures fell 0.27%. (3) Germany's DAX index rose by 0.06%, Britain's FTSE 100 index rose by 0.11%, France's CAC40 index fell by 0.04% and Europe's Stoxx 50 index fell by 0.03%. ④WTI crude oil fell 0.06% to 70.25 USD/barrel. Brent crude oil fell 0.07% to $73.47/barrel. ⑤ American finance is under great pressure, with a budget deficit of $366.8 billion in November, up 17% year-on-year. ⑥ ING is bearish on the prospect of commodities next year, and gold is expected to outshine others. ⑦ Macy's department store fell 8.2% before the market, and the company lowered its profit outlook after discovering accounting errors. 8 Broadcom's share price rose by 4.3% before the market closed. In the news, Apple may cooperate with Broadcom to develop AI server chips. 9 ⑨Adobe's U.S. stocks fell by about 9% before the market, and the company's annual performance guidance was worse than expected.
South Korea's finance ministers and Japan's finance ministers held an online meeting, and the two sides reiterated the importance of the partnership between the two countries.Tang Lin, a former director-level cadre of the Higher People's Court of Guizhou Province, held a trial in the first instance. On December 12, 2024, the Intermediate People's Court of tongren city, Guizhou Province held a trial in the first instance to hear the case of Tang Lin, a former director-level cadre of the Higher People's Court of Guizhou Province. Tongren city People's Procuratorate prosecuted the charges: During 2012-2023, defendant Tang Lin took advantage of his position as President of Liupanshui Intermediate People's Court, Vice President of Guizhou Higher People's Court, Director of Legal Affairs Office of Guizhou Provincial People's Government, Executive Vice President of Guizhou Higher People's Court, and the convenience of his authority and position to help relevant units and individuals in handling cases, and illegally accepted other people's property totaling RMB 21.47 million. From December 2007 to January 2011, Tang Lin took advantage of his position as the president of Liupanshui Intermediate People's Court to facilitate the illegal possession of public property with others, totaling RMB 660,000, of which RMB 330,000 was shared by individuals. The public prosecution agency requested Tang Lin to be investigated for criminal responsibility for accepting bribes and corruption. (Dynamic and static Guizhou)Russian central bank: Russia's current account surplus in November was $3.2 billion.
After the European Central Bank decided not to interest rates, the yield of euro zone government bonds changed little; The yield of German 10-year government bonds rose by 1 basis point to 2.14%.On December 11th, it was reported that the U.S. government was divided over the U.S. steel acquisition, and Biden considered blocking the transaction. It was reported that the U.S. Department of Defense, the Ministry of Finance and the State Council all believed that the Japanese Steel Company's $15 billion acquisition of American steel companies would not bring national security risks, but U.S. President Biden was expected to block the transaction. Earlier, some media quoted people familiar with the matter as saying that Biden planned to block the acquisition of American steel companies later this month on the grounds of national security. The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States has been reviewing the proposed acquisition for most of this year, and the group must submit its decision to Biden before December 22 or 23.Polls show that the support rate of Japanese Prime Minister Shi Pomao's cabinet has dropped to 26.8%. According to a report by the Japan News Agency on the 12th local time, the poll conducted by the agency in December showed that the support rate of Shi Pomao's cabinet was 26.8%, down 1.9 percentage points from last month. (CCTV News)