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FBI Director Wray will resign before Trump takes office, ending his term ahead of schedule. Christopher Wray, director of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), announced that he will resign before President-elect Trump takes office (sworn in on January 20, 2025), ending his historic and turbulent term as the head of the highest law enforcement agency in the United States ahead of schedule. Wray said in a statement that he plans to resign at the end of Biden's presidency next month. Trump, who will take office on January 20, made it clear that he will not be allowed to continue as the director of the FBI, although Wray's 10-year term will not end until 2027. Trump posted on Truth Social on November 30th that he planned to nominate loyal ally Kash Patel as the director of the FBI.Bank of Canada: Trump's tariff threat has brought "significant" uncertainty to Canada's economy. Bank of Canada Governor Mackler said on Wednesday that US President-elect Trump promised to impose a 25% tariff on goods imported from Canada at the beginning of his term of office, which constitutes an uncertain factor and may aggravate the general economic chaos in Canada.Competitors criticized Google for changing its search results and asked the European Union to file antitrust charges. More than 20 price comparison websites in Europe criticized Google's suggestions for modifying its search results on Wednesday, saying that these suggestions still did not meet the technical rules of the European Union, and urged regulators to file charges against Google. For more than a year, Google has been discussing with price comparison websites, hotels, airlines, restaurants and retailers how to abide by the Digital Market Law, which prohibits Google from favoring its own products and services on its platform. Last month, the company announced its latest proposal, which includes expanding the unit with the same format, allowing users to choose between comparison websites and supplier websites. If it can't reach an agreement with its competitors, it may return to the "ten blue links" format many years ago as an alternative. This form is currently being tested in Germany, Belgium and Estonia.

Egypt condemns Israel's military operations in Syria. The Egyptian Foreign Ministry issued a statement on the 11th local time, condemning Israel's organized attacks on infrastructure in Syria, deliberate bombing and destruction of bases, weapons, equipment and military systems in various parts of Syria, and its illegal bases established in Syria in the strongest terms. Egypt reiterated its firm opposition to Israel's use of Syria's internal affairs and its current vacuum to undermine Syria's national capacity and occupy Syrian land. Egypt believes that Israel's attacks on Syria systematically violate international law. Egypt warned that Israel's irresponsible policies may cause terrible risks. Egypt calls on the UN Security Council and the international community to shoulder their responsibilities, stop Israel's dangerous escalation in Syria and urge it to respect Syria's sovereignty and territorial integrity.Erdogan, Turkey: Thanks to the leaders of Somalia and Ethiopia for achieving historical reconciliation.Fitch: Steady reserves, reduced liabilities, and prudent budget management have prepared American state and local governments for 2025.

Dollar deposits and wealth management are popular again. Experts suggest paying attention to exchange risk. Although it is in the cycle of interest rate reduction by the Federal Reserve, dollar deposit products are still attractive to investors. Since December, a number of bank wealth management subsidiaries have intensively put on shelves US dollar wealth management products. Judging from the rate of return, the performance benchmark of some US dollar fixed-income wealth management products currently launched is close to 5%, but the performance benchmark of RMB wealth management products with the same risk level is mostly around 2%. According to the statistics of Puyi standard data, as of December 9, there were 1,312 surviving products in US dollar financing, and the surviving scale of US dollar financing reached 281.927 billion yuan, which has doubled from the surviving scale of 140.351 billion yuan at the end of December last year. In addition, although banks have previously lowered the interest rate of dollar deposit products, from the current point of view, the interest rate of some banks' dollar deposits remains above 4%, attracting many customers to buy. According to industry insiders, under the Fed's interest rate cut cycle, the main reason for the high heat of dollar wealth management and dollar deposits is the exchange rate expectation of a strong dollar. If the market expects the US dollar to appreciate or remain stable, holding US dollar assets (such as US dollar wealth management and US dollar deposits) can benefit from the potential exchange rate appreciation even if interest rates fall. In addition, in order to diversify risks, some investors choose to allocate part of their funds to US dollar assets to realize diversification of asset allocation. (Securities Daily)The concept of high-speed copper connection is very popular. Recently, benefiting from the explosive demand growth of AI computing power, the market funds focus on the supporting concept of high-speed copper connection in the upper reaches of NVIDIA. On December 11th, a number of high-speed copper connection concept stocks rose sharply, with Zhaolong Interconnect rising by 12.58%, Woer Nuclear Materials by 8.70%, Shenyu Shares by 4.77% and Derun Electronics by 4.99%. High-speed copper connection, also known as high-speed connector, is a core data transmission component, which constitutes an efficient signal transmission system. Manager Public Offering of Fund said that the concept stocks of high-speed copper connection continued to rise, which actually benefited from the explosion of demand for AI computing power. Invista once introduced at GTC2024 that NVL72 uses copper cable interconnection to save costs significantly compared with optical modules. Shanxi Securities predicts that the new market of high-speed copper cable brought by GB200 will be close to 6 billion US dollars in 2025, and the usage scenarios of high-speed copper cable will continue to expand. It is found that a number of public and private equity funds have heavily invested in the concept stocks of high-speed copper connections that have risen recently in the third quarter. There are also fund managers who heavily invested in related stocks in the second quarter, but significantly reduced their positions in the third quarter, missing the rise of concept stocks in the fourth quarter. There are also some fund managers who continue to be optimistic about the stimulation of the demand of upstream industries caused by the outbreak of AI computing power, and have successively added high-speed copper connection concept stocks. (Securities Times)Citigroup raised the carnival target price from $28.00 to $30.00.