US Secretary of State Blinken: Overthrowing the Assad regime is a good opportunity, but it also involves considerable risks. The extremist organization "Islamic State" will try to use this time to rebuild its power in Syria, and the United States will not let this happen. The Syrian people must choose their own future.Barclays: There is a high degree of uncertainty in the US interest rate forecast in 2025. Based on the baseline prospect of a soft landing of the US economy in 2025, Barclays interest rate strategists predict that the yields of 2-year and 10-year government bonds will close at 3.75% and 4.25% respectively next year, and the yield difference between 2s10s will widen by about 50 basis points. According to the report, interest rate cuts should push interest rates down, while longer-term yields are under pressure from factors such as rising neutral interest rates, high interest rate volatility, inflation risk premium and net bond expansion. But the incoming Trump administration will bring "great uncertainty".The State Council, USA: American hostage envoy Roger Carstens has arrived in Beirut, and we are urging all parties to support this effort.
Nymex January gasoline futures closed at $1.9525 per gallon, and Nymex January heating oil futures closed at $2.1835 per gallon. Nymex January natural gas futures closed at $3.1820/million british thermal unit.Israel told the United Nations that it had taken "limited and temporary measures" to deal with any threat to citizens, especially in the Golan Heights.Mark Long will convene representatives of most political parties to hold consultations on the candidate for prime minister on the 10th. On December 9th, local time, the Elysee Palace announced that French President Mark Long would invite representatives of all political parties except the far-left party "Unyielding France" and the far-right National Union to hold consultations on the candidate for prime minister at the Elysee Palace at 14: 00 on December 10th, and try his best to find a way to reach an agreement so as to form a government in the interests of all.
In order to step up military operations against Syria and expand its long-term strategic advantage, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a speech on the 8th that the drastic changes in the situation in Syria have brought so-called new opportunities and challenges to Israel. The so-called opportunity, according to the analysis of Israeli and Arab media, Israel is taking this opportunity to strengthen and expand its occupation and control of the temporary border areas between the two countries, even on the Syrian side, so as to gain greater strategic advantages over Syria and neighboring countries in the long run. Secondly, Israel can further attack the military targets in Syria and weaken the overall military strength of Syria. Thirdly, Israel believes that the drastic changes in the Syrian situation have objectively blocked Iran's way of providing assistance to Hezbollah, seriously weakened Iran's influence in the region, and helped it to further exert pressure on Hezbollah and Hamas armed forces in Gaza.Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau: Retaliatory tariffs ended Trump's previous taxation.Representatives of entrepreneurs in Taiwan Province: The mainland economy has shown great resilience and vitality. On December 9, 2024, the annual meeting of the Cross-Strait Entrepreneur Summit was held in Xiamen, Fujian. The theme of the annual meeting of the summit is "Building a new era industrial chain between the two sides of the strait to promote cross-strait economic integration and development", including the opening ceremony, keynote speech, special forums of various industrial cooperation promotion groups of the summit and the summary of the annual meeting. More than 700 business people from both sides of the strait attended the meeting. Song Tao, director of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, met with Taiwan Province entrepreneurs attending the 2024 Cross-Strait Entrepreneur Summit in Xiamen, Fujian. Representatives of entrepreneurs in Taiwan Province said that the mainland economy has shown strong resilience and vitality, and the prospects for developing new quality productive forces are bright. (CCTV)