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Survey: More than 40% of analysts expect the Bank of Japan to raise interest rates this month, but most think that January next year is the best time. According to the latest survey, observers of the Bank of Japan predict that January is the most likely time to raise interest rates next time, but more than 40% of the respondents still expect to take action next week. According to the survey, about 52% of the 52 economists surveyed expect the Bank of Japan to raise the policy interest rate from 0.25% in January, compared with 32% in the last survey. About 44% of the respondents expect the central bank to take action at the end of the two-day meeting on December 19, down from 53% in the last survey. The survey results show that observers believe that the Bank of Japan's policy meeting this month is likely to move or not to move to a large extent. About 88% of the respondents said that the earliest possible time to raise interest rates in their risk scenarios is next week. Another equally high data shows that Japan's economic and price environment will justify raising interest rates this month.Backbone Technology: The holding subsidiary recently signed a strategic cooperation agreement on intelligent robots. Backbone Technology (002779) said on the interactive platform on December 12 that recently, Jiangsu Jianmi, the holding subsidiary of the company, signed strategic cooperation agreements with Dongsheng Zhilian and Nanjing Ji Rong respectively, working together to develop and apply automation, visualization and intelligent robots, and promoting the application and development of intelligent technologies in a wider range of fields. Jiangsu Jianmi's Lingrui P1 quadruped robot dog can be used for industrial park management, fire control and public security, daily inspection of power grid and electric power, and inspection of special operation scenes such as smelting enterprises and hazardous chemicals.The retail sector rose and strengthened, and more than 10 stocks such as Yonghui Supermarket rose and strengthened. More than 10 stocks such as Yonghui Supermarket, Maoye Commercial, Zhongbai Group, Nanning Department Store, Youhao Group and Dongbai Group rose and strengthened.

The ethylene plant of ExxonMobil Huizhou Ethylene Phase I Project entered the commissioning stage, and ExxonMobil China announced that in December 2024, the 1.6 million tons ethylene plant of ExxonMobil Huizhou Ethylene Phase I Project was handed over to China and entered the commissioning stage in an all-round way. ExxonMobil Huizhou Ethylene Project is located in Huizhou Daya Bay Petrochemical Park. The first phase of the project mainly includes ethylene plants, high-end polyethylene and polypropylene production plants in the middle and lower reaches, and supporting utilities, docks, storage and transportation and environmental protection facilities.Hang Seng Science and Technology Index rose to 1%, while Kewang shares rose, with Billie Billie (09626.HK) rising by over 4%, Baidu (09888.HK) rising by 2.8%, Aauto Quicker (01024.HK), Tencent Holdings (00700.HK) rising by 1.8% and Alibaba (09988.HK) rising by over 1%.The British authorities confiscated 110 million yuan of assets of Hongtong criminal Tian Wenjun, and the British authorities confiscated 110 million yuan of assets of Hongtong criminal Tian Wenjun. On December 10, the National Bureau for Combating Crime (NCA) of the United Kingdom issued an announcement, officially confiscating 12 million pounds (about 110 million yuan) of assets of China citizens Tian Wenjun and Hao Jiangbo in the United Kingdom, including two luxury houses in the suburbs of hampstead, London, two student apartments in Coventry and funds in several bank accounts. However, these assets account for less than 1% of the officially recognized crime proceeds of the Tian couple in China. NCA formally filed a case with the Queen's Bench Court of the British High Court on November 26th, and applied for approval of the civil recovery orders against Tian Wenjun and Hao Jiangbo. This means that the loan fraudsters Tian and his wife, who are wanted by the China police and have absconded in the UK for five years, need not be convicted, and their unexplained assets in the UK will be confiscated. (Caixin. com)

The bauxite of the Guinea project of Tianshan Aluminum Group was shipped for the first time. According to the news of Tianshan Aluminum Group, on the afternoon of December 11th, local time in Guinea, Zeng Chaolin, the chairman of the company, attended and presided over the first shipment ceremony of the bauxite of Guinea project. This inaugural ceremony marks that the whole chain of the project has entered the operation stage. Subsequently, the company will increase infrastructure investment and mining scale, and gradually increase production capacity and transportation capacity. It is expected that the bauxite self-sufficiency rate will be 100% within two years, ensuring the company to obtain stable and low-cost bauxite resources and continuously maintain the competitive advantage of the integrated industrial chain.Xu Chun, former deputy secretary of the Party Working Committee of Kunming Economic and Technological Development Zone, was "double-opened". According to the news from the Supervision Committee of Yunnan Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection, with the approval of Yunnan Provincial Committee, the Supervision Committee of Yunnan Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection filed a case review and investigation on the serious violation of laws and regulations of Ren Xuchun, former deputy secretary of the Party Working Committee of Kunming Economic and Technological Development Zone and former owner of the management committee. Xu Chun seriously violated the party's political discipline, the spirit of the eight central regulations, organizational discipline, integrity discipline, and work discipline, which constituted a serious duty violation and was suspected of accepting bribes. After the 18th, 19th, and even 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, he still failed to converge and stop, with serious nature and bad influence, which should be dealt with seriously. According to the Regulations on Disciplinary Actions in the Communist Party of China (CPC), the Supervision Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), the Law on Administrative Actions of Public Officials in People's Republic of China (PRC) and other relevant regulations, after being studied by the Standing Committee of the Yunnan Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and reported to the Yunnan Provincial Party Committee for approval, Xu Chun was decided to be expelled from the party. The Yunnan Provincial Supervision Commission gave him the punishment of dismissal from public office; Collect their illegal income; The suspected crime was transferred to the procuratorate for review and prosecution according to law, and the property involved was transferred together.According to sources, Hamas handed over a list of hostages to be released, including Americans.