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U.S. stocks of semiconductor ETFs rose by 2.57%, global technology stock index ETFs and technology industry ETFs rose by over 1%, while energy industry ETFs fell by over 0.3%.Blinken said that the United States is trying to bring back the citizens found in Syria. When meeting in Jordan to discuss the political transition in Syria, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said that the United States is trying to bring back an American citizen found in Syria on Thursday.Two States in the United States sued Glock, a gun manufacturer, for ignoring the design flaw that "pistols can easily become machine guns". On the 12th, the prosecutors in New Jersey and Minnesota respectively sued Glock, an Austrian weapons manufacturer, accusing the pistol manufactured by them of design defects and being easily converted into illegal machine guns. According to the complaint, Glock knew this situation for a long time, and continued to sell this pistol to the United States and profit from it, which promoted the proliferation of gun violence in the United States. (Xinhua News Agency)

BYD Lian Yubo: It is estimated that BYD will sell 4.25 million vehicles in the whole year. On December 13th, BYD's chief scientist Lian Yubo said: "Up to now, BYD has sold more than 10 million new energy vehicles. By the end of this month, we can probably achieve the annual sales of 4.25 million vehicles. " He also mentioned: "There are still some challenges in industrial development. For example, the overall anti-risk ability of our industrial chain needs to be improved, and there are still breakthroughs in chips, operating technologies, industrial software and nuclear materials. We still need to strengthen research and achieve complete autonomy and controllability."IBM and Illinois will cooperate with universities and industry to establish the National Center for Quantum Algorithms in Chicago.White House: Biden's approval of an aid program to Ukraine will provide more air defense systems, etc. On December 12, local time, John Kirby, strategic communication coordinator of the US White House National Security Council, said at the White House briefing that day that US President Biden approved a new Ukrainian security assistance program on the 12 th, which will provide Ukraine with more air defense systems, artillery, drones and armored vehicles. Kirby said that this is the 72nd such material deployment assistance announced by the United States, and the United States will continue to provide additional aid packages until the end of the current government.

BNP Paribas looks forward to 2025: The Federal Reserve is expected to stay put for the whole year, and the US yield will rise. The 2025 outlook report released by BNP Paribas on Thursday shows that the yield of US Treasury bonds is expected to rise, and under the strong dollar, it will reach parity against the euro. The bank predicts that with the entry into force of the tariff measures proposed by the incoming Trump administration, the US inflation rate will start to pick up from the middle of next year, prompting the Fed to remain inactive throughout 2025. Calvin Tse, the bank's head of macro strategy for the Americas, said that customers are advised to continue to allocate low US Treasury bonds next year, because they expect that inflation will accelerate from mid-2025 after the soft landing of the economy, and the yield of 10-year Treasury bonds will be 4.65% at the end of the year. Tse also said that inflation is expected to be higher and the Fed is more hawkish next year.Russian Ministry of Defence: Russian armed forces occupied seven settlements in one week.Uruguay's GDP in the third quarter increased by 4.1% year on year.