Korean media: The director of the South Korean Police Department who was arrested in an emergency for "civil strife" was sent to the hospital due to the deterioration of his health. According to Yonhap News Agency's latest news from the police on the 12th, Zhao Zhihao, the director of the South Korean Police Department who was arrested in an emergency on suspicion of "civil strife" in the early morning of the 11th, has been sent to the hospital for treatment due to the deterioration of his health. (World Wide Web)COMEX silver fell 1.00% in the day and is now quoted at $32.63 per ounce.The Baltic dry bulk freight index fell 4.61% to 1055 points.
Market News: The Slovak Prime Minister said that Slovakia supports the normalization of relations between Russia and western countries and opposes the emergence of a new iron curtain in Europe. The Slovak Prime Minister emphasized that all conflicts will be finally resolved through negotiations.The European Central Bank announced that it would cut three key interest rates in the euro zone. On the 12th local time, the European Central Bank held a monetary policy meeting at its headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany, and decided to cut all three key interest rates by 25 basis points. This is also the fourth time that the European Central Bank cut interest rates this year after it announced a rate cut in June this year. According to the latest interest rate resolution announced by the European Central Bank, the deposit mechanism interest rate is reduced to 3.0%, the main refinancing interest rate is reduced to 3.15%, and the marginal lending interest rate is reduced to 3.40%. (CCTV News)New Cape: At present, the company's revenue from AI products is not high. The new Cape said on the interactive platform on December 12 that the company actively explored in the field of artificial intelligence and gradually established its own AI corpus to support the research and development of intelligent services and products. At present, the company's AI product revenue is not high, which will not have a significant impact on the company's performance.
The Baltic dry bulk freight index fell 4.61% to 1055 points.Analyst: The interest rate of the European Central Bank will be pushed to the low end of the neutral range. Marchel Alexandrovich, an economist at Saltmarsh Economics, said that the European Central Bank cut interest rates by 25 basis points again, which is the fourth time in this easing cycle. The monetary policy statement reiterated that the Committee would not commit to a specific interest rate path in advance. However, the new forecast shows that the core inflation rate is 1.9% in 2026 and 2027, which indicates that interest rates may continue to push to the low end of the neutral range.Enterprise IT Expenditure Survey: Google Cloud is expected to be the first choice for 50% of the respondents. Tae Kim, a science and technology columnist, wrote that according to a recent survey, Google Cloud has risen rapidly in the enterprise AI expenditure competition and may become the winner. According to the 2025 CIO survey released by Piper Sandler, 81 CIOs were asked about their budget priorities in different suppliers and technical fields. According to the survey, 87% of CIOs surveyed expect to increase the IT budget in 2025, which is the highest proportion of the survey since 2020. In this survey, the status of Google Cloud has risen significantly, surpassing Microsoft and OpenAI to become the "most strategic" AI supplier, with a support rate of 27%, a significant increase from 15% six months ago. Relatively speaking, Microsoft's support rate dropped from 33% to 24%. When asked which cloud company they plan to use to test or implement AI projects next year, 50% of the respondents chose Google Cloud, making it the top AI infrastructure provider. In addition, Harsh Kumar, a Piper semiconductor analyst, pointed out that these results are also beneficial to Invista, because all cloud companies are the main buyers of AI chips in NVIDIA. Kumar estimates that the entire AI chip market will have more than $500 billion in business opportunities by 2028.