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The European Central Bank cut interest rates by 25 basis points, warning that economic growth will slow down. The European Central Bank cut interest rates by 25 basis points to 3%, and warned that economic growth will be weaker than its previous forecast. This is the fourth time that the European Central Bank has cut interest rates since June, bringing the benchmark interest rate to its lowest level since March 2023. At the same time, the European Central Bank warned that the euro zone economy will only grow by 1.1% in 2025, lower than its forecast of 1.3% in September. It was widely expected that the European Central Bank would cut interest rates. Investors expect that the European Central Bank will cut interest rates more than the Federal Reserve next year, because it is widely expected that the economic growth of the euro zone will lag behind that of the United States. The euro zone's export-dependent economy is also vulnerable to Trump's threat to impose tariffs of up to 20% on all American imports.Double 12 is in full swing, Pinduoduo's 10 billion subsidy is overweight "super double supplement", and Pinduoduo's 10 billion subsidy "super double supplement" is in full swing. Active goods are superimposed with double discounts on the daily price of 10 billion subsidies, and the highest discount can be further reduced by 50%. The price of Dyson hair dryer is only 1999 yuan; The price of Cobos T50 PRO sweeping robot is only 2599 yuan; The price of Li Ning Red Rabbit 7 running shoes is only 129 yuan, and the price has dropped by nearly 70%. In the last round of double replenishment activities, brands such as Li Ning, Lego, Fila and Fuji Camera all achieved excessive growth, and the average daily sales of Yili dairy products increased by 54 times from the previous month. "Super Double Supplement" is becoming a new engine for the growth of brands in the promotion of e-commerce.COMEX silver fell 1.00% in the day and is now quoted at $32.63 per ounce.

Japanese government bond futures rose, recovering some of the earlier declines.The survey shows that the European Central Bank is expected to cut interest rates for the fourth time this year to provide support for the economy, and the European Central Bank is bound to cut interest rates for the fourth time this year, loosening the troubled euro zone economy with the inflation rate approaching 2%. According to the survey, all the respondents except one analyst predicted that the European Central Bank would cut the deposit interest rate by 25 basis points to 3% again on Thursday. Only JPMorgan Chase is expected to cut interest rates by more than 50 basis points, believing that the recent data show that economic growth and inflation are weakening.Jilin: Promote the high-quality development of ice and snow economy. According to the information office of Jilin Provincial People's Government, the press conference on "Implementation Opinions on Promoting the High-quality Development of Ice and Snow Economy in Jilin Province" was held on the 12th. The "Implementation Opinions" deployed 30 key tasks in 7 aspects. Zhang Chunda, deputy director of the Provincial Development and Reform Commission, said that from the aspects of promoting infrastructure construction and strengthening policy support, efforts will be made to consolidate the development foundation of the ice and snow industry and help the ice and snow economy accelerate iterative upgrading.

Shenzhen Energy Investment established a new energy development company, and the enterprise search APP showed that recently, Shenneng (Zhuolu) New Energy Development Co., Ltd. was established, with Li Xuedong as the legal representative and a registered capital of 2 million yuan. Its business scope includes: solar power generation technical services; Technical services for wind power generation; Research and development of wind farm related systems; Energy storage technology services, etc. Enterprise survey shows that the company is indirectly wholly-owned by Shenzhen Energy.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 largest automobile ro-ro terminal on the Yangtze River trunk line was officially put into operation in Suzhou. On December 12th, Haitong Taicang Automobile Terminal, the largest automobile ro-ro terminal on the Yangtze River trunk line, was officially opened for production and operation. On the same day, three ro-ro ships docked at Haitong Wharf, and more than 3,300 cars were loaded on board and sent to Mexico, Peru, South Korea, Guatemala and other countries. The coastline of Haitong Taicang Automobile Terminal is 708 meters long, and it can berth two foreign trade ro-ro ships of 70,000 tons and one domestic trade ro-ro ship of 3000 tons at the same time. The land area of the yard is 860,000 square meters, the number of parking spaces is 32,000, and the designed annual automobile throughput is 1.3 million.