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The data shows that from January to November, 2024, the financing scale of the IPO market in the UK fell by about 9% to US$ 1 billion. Looking around the world, the scale of IPO in London market fell to the 20th place this year, ranking behind Oman. Due to the low valuation and weak liquidity, many companies turn their IPO destinations to other places (Amsterdam, the Netherlands, etc.).Us treasury secretary yellen: there may be no currency that can compete with the us dollar. us treasury secretary yellen: a wide range of tariffs will hurt the competitiveness of the United States. The use of the dollar is supported by the strong American economy, and there may be no currency that can compete with the dollar.Spot platinum just broke through the $940.00/oz mark, and the latest price was $940.55/oz, up 0.23% in the day; The main force of Nymex platinum futures recently reported $952.9 per ounce, up 0.40% in the day.

Apple or cooperated with Broadcom to develop AI server chips using TSMC's advanced process. According to The Information, Apple's cooperation with Broadcom this time is not complete design and production outsourcing in the traditional sense, but some key "chiplet" are provided by Broadcom. Core is a design method that modularizes the functions of the processor. Apple can combine multiple cores into a complete chip. This method not only simplifies the manufacturing process, but also effectively protects Apple's overall design secrets, even if the partners can't fully understand the chip architecture. It is reported that this processor code-named "Baltra" will be produced by TSMC in N3P process. N3P is an advanced manufacturing technology released by TSMC in April 2024, and it is expected to be applied to the processor of iPhone 17 Pro for the first time. This process technology has higher performance and energy efficiency advantages, and will provide strong support for AI servers.The previous crude oil futures 2401 contract closed up 1.28% at 536.70 yuan/barrel. Shanghai Gold closed up 0.64% and Shanghai Bank closed up 0.04%.Kuwait priced the oil sold to Asia in January at the parity level with Oman/Dubai.

Lebanese military: After the withdrawal of Israeli troops, the Lebanese army will be stationed in five locations in southern Lebanon. On the 11th, local time, the Lebanese military issued a statement saying that as the first phase of army deployment, the Lebanese army, in coordination with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, will be stationed in five locations around Shyam town in southern Lebanon after the withdrawal of Israeli troops. According to the statement, this is an initiative made after discussion by the Supervisory Committee, and the deployment will be completed in the next stage. At the same time, as part of the operation, the military will conduct an investigation to remove unexploded ordnance. The Lebanese army urged people to avoid the area and follow military instructions until the operation was completed. (CCTV)Google launched Gemini 2.0, calling it a brand-new AI model for the Agentic era. On December 11th, local time, Google CEO sundar pichai released a note: Today, I am excited to launch the next model of Google for this new Agentic era: launching Gemini 2.0, our most powerful model. With the new development of multimodal-such as local image and audio output-and the use of local tools, it will enable us to build new artificial intelligence agents and bring us closer to our vision of universal assistants.German Ministry of Economic Affairs: German government abandons expansion plan of natural gas plant.