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Wang Yi attended the 25th anniversary of Sino-Vietnamese land boundary demarcation and the 15th anniversary of the signing of the "Three Legal Documents". On December 10th, 2024, the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Commissioner and Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pei Qingshan attended the 25th anniversary of Sino-Vietnamese land boundary demarcation and the 15th anniversary of the signing of the "Three Legal Documents" in Beijing. Wang Yi said in his speech that China and Vietnam are friendly neighbors linked by mountains and rivers. In the long history, they have condensed into the traditional friendship of "deep friendship between China and Vietnam, comrades and brothers", and supported each other and helped each other in promoting the cause of socialist construction. The land border between China and Vietnam is not only a friendly bond between the two countries, but also a bridge for cooperation between the two sides. Twenty-five years ago, under the personal care and guidance of the leaders of the two parties and countries, the two sides insisted on solving the border issue through dialogue and consultation. After nine years of negotiation and consultation, they signed the Sino-Vietnamese Land Border Treaty, which laid a solid foundation for peace, stability and long-term stability in the border areas between the two countries and created favorable conditions for consolidating the traditional friendship between China and Vietnam and deepening the comprehensive strategic partnership between China and Vietnam. Over the past 25 years, with the joint efforts of both sides, the level of border management between China and Vietnam has been continuously improved, cross-border exchanges have become increasingly active, and border-related cooperation has yielded fruitful results. Wang Yi pointed out that we should create a clear and stable border, give full play to the basic and programmatic role of the Sino-Vietnamese land border treaty and the "three legal documents", strengthen the construction of border-related mechanisms such as the Land Border Joint Committee, continue to promote the legalization, systematization and standardization of border management, enhance the efficiency of border governance, and maintain a clear and stable border and a good order in border areas. We should create a border of prosperity and development, constantly improve the layout of port passages, promote the formation of a smart and convenient, compound development and friendly exchange port system, promote the connectivity of cross-border infrastructure such as bridges and roads, and promote regional coordinated development. We should build a friendly border for generations, encourage local exchanges and people-to-people exchanges, carry forward the valuable experience of successfully delineating the land border between China and Vietnam, uphold the spirit of good-neighborliness and frankness, and jointly safeguard peace, stability and development in the region. (Ministry of Foreign Affairs website)Institution: Bitcoin seems difficult to maintain its upward momentum. Bitcoin rose slightly in the day, but the transaction price was lower than the key level of $100,000 recently, because this cryptocurrency seems difficult to maintain its upward momentum. Last Thursday, after President-elect Trump nominated Paul Atkins, who supports cryptocurrencies, as the chairman of the SEC, Bitcoin reached a record high of $103,000. Trade Nation analyst David Morrison said in a report: "Yesterday, Bitcoin briefly broke through the $100,000 mark again, but shortly after the opening of the US stock market, with the selling of the stock market, Bitcoin plummeted."Trump's nominated chairman of the SEC once blamed the US government for FTX's downfall, and Trump's nominated chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission once blamed the FTX cryptocurrency exchange's collapse on an unusual suspect, that is, the US government itself. Atkins, 66, witnessed the disaster of FTX with his own eyes, and the collapse of the encryption empire still reverberates in the digital asset world. Patomak Global Partners, his consulting firm in Washington, DC, was listed as a creditor of FTX bankruptcy case, and the date of signing the consulting agreement of its board of directors was January 2022, about 10 months before the bankruptcy of Bankman-Fried. According to court documents, the company also served as a lobbyist for FTX. Atkins pointed out in a podcast last year that "the collapse of FTX was an international disaster, and I think it was because the United States did not formulate rules to adapt to this new technology". He also admitted that the fraud of Bankman-Fried was the core reason for the collapse of the exchange.

Tesla (TSLA.O) rose more than 3%, and Morgan Stanley and Cantor Ftzgerald upgraded its rating.Institution: AUD/NZD may rebound in the coming months. Jane Foley, foreign exchange strategist of ABN amro, said in a report that AUD/NZD may rebound in the coming months, because the growth momentum of New Zealand's economy is far less than that of Australia. "The weakness of the New Zealand economy and the risk of further sharp interest rate cuts by the New Zealand Federal Reserve indicate that the fundamentals do not support the further performance of the New Zealand dollar against the Australian dollar." The New Zealand Federal Reserve cut interest rates by 50 basis points in November and hinted that it would cut interest rates further in 2025. The Reserve Bank of Australia kept interest rates unchanged on Tuesday. The Dutch cooperative bank predicts that the Australian dollar will rise from the current 1.0991 to 1.12 against the New Zealand dollar within three months.The chief financial officer of Goldman Sachs expressed his intention to promote increased investment in technology, especially artificial intelligence.

The US military temporarily grounded the Osprey again. The US Marine Corps, Navy and Air Force confirmed to the media on December 9 that for security reasons, the US military has temporarily grounded the Osprey tilt-rotor transport aircraft again on a global scale. In the past five years, there have been frequent accidents of Osprey transport aircraft in various places, and the safety of Osprey has been questioned.Latvian Foreign Minister Blase said that we will cooperate with anyone appointed by Trump.Bank for International Settlements: Swap spreads are reflecting investors' concerns about excessive bond supply. The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) pointed out that huge government loans are having an impact on the global interest rate market, saying that investors have demanded higher premiums for buying sovereign bonds. In its quarterly report released on Tuesday, the agency pointed out that the swap spreads of various currencies and maturities have narrowed rapidly in recent months, which are "signs of possible oversupply". As investors are worried about huge debt and deficit expansion, the yields of government bonds in the euro zone and Japan have recently exceeded comparable swap rates. This leads to the so-called swap spread becoming negative. Because national debt is usually regarded as a safer investment than interest rate swap, it is unusual for the swap spread to enter the negative range. According to the Bank for International Settlements, the negative swap spread seems to reflect the pressure faced by investors and intermediaries because they need to absorb more government bonds in the near future. In the United States, the swap spreads for some maturities have been negative for many years.