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Brazilian President's Office: Brazilian President Lula recovered well after surgery, and his speech and diet were normal.China Institute of Building Research signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Huawei, and China Institute of Building Research Co., Ltd. signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. According to the agreement, the two sides will deepen cooperation around the digital and intelligent transformation of the construction industry.The Ministry of Commerce held a special meeting of the party group to emphasize the need to vigorously boost consumption. On the 13th, Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao presided over a special meeting of the party group to convey the spirit of studying the Central Economic Work Conference and to study, deploy and implement the work. The meeting stressed that it is necessary to vigorously boost consumption. We will intensify efforts to expand the scope, implement the trade-in policy for consumer goods, innovate diversified consumption scenarios, expand service consumption, and actively develop the first-round economy. It is necessary to expand high-level opening to the outside world and stabilize foreign trade and foreign investment. We will expand independent opening and unilateral opening in an orderly manner, steadily expand institutional opening, and promote the free trade pilot zone to improve quality and efficiency and expand the reform mandate. Efforts should be made to stabilize trade in goods and actively develop service trade, green trade and digital trade. We will deepen the reform of foreign investment promotion system and mechanism, steadily push forward the opening of service industry, expand the pilot projects in the fields of telecommunications, medical care and education, and continue to build the brand of "Investing in China". Promote high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road", deepen and improve the overseas comprehensive service system.

Spot palladium fell more than 2.00% in the day and is now reported at $957.09 per ounce.In November, personal housing loans stabilized and rebounded. On December 13, the central bank released financial statistics for November 2024. The financial data was generally stable and maintained strong support for the real economy. It is noteworthy that the growth rate of household loans has been rising recently, mainly because personal loans have stabilized and rebounded. From the perspective of residents' departments, the short-term and medium-and long-term loans in the first 11 months increased by 1.29 trillion yuan and 453.8 billion yuan respectively, of which the medium-and long-term loans of residents increased by 66.9 billion yuan in November, increasing for two consecutive months. With the intensive introduction and effective implementation of a package of incremental policies, social expectations and market confidence are gradually picking up. Market experts generally predict that the effective financing demand in the market will be further improved, financial resources will flow more to major strategies, key areas and weak links, and financial support for the high-quality development of the real economy will be more powerful and effective. (21 Finance)Market News: The European Central Bank will release the data of the Emergency Anti-epidemic Bond Purchase Program (PEPP) once a month from January 8 next year.

Supreme People's Procuratorate: Make full use of the rule of law to serve high-quality development. The reporter learned from the Supreme People's Procuratorate on December 13 that the meeting held on the day of the Supreme People's Procuratorate required that procuratorial organs should fully perform their legal supervision duties in accordance with the law, strive to create a harmonious and peaceful social environment, a safe and stable rule of law environment, a fair and just market environment, and a clean business environment, and make full use of the rule of law to serve high-quality development. (Xinhua News Agency)The average auction yield of 25-day cash management bills in Canada is 3.276%.The Shanghai-Kunming Railway's relocation line in Songjiang section was fully connected. At 4: 33 on December 13th, the Shanghai-Kunming Railway's relocation line in Songjiang section was fully connected, marking the completion of the Shanghai-Kunming Railway's relocation project in Songjiang and its successful introduction to Shanghai Songjiang Station. Shanghai Songjiang Station has become a large-scale station where Shanghai-Suzhou-Lake high-speed railway, Shanghai-Kunming high-speed railway and Shanghai-Kunming railway stand side by side. In the future, both high-speed railway and ordinary-speed passenger transport services will be launched. (released in Shanghai)