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OPEC lowered the growth rate of global crude oil demand for the fifth consecutive month. The OPEC monthly report shows that the growth rate of global crude oil demand in 2024 will be lowered from 1.82 million barrels per day to 1.61 million barrels per day. Reduce the growth rate of global crude oil demand in 2025 from 1.54 million barrels per day to 1.45 million barrels per day; For the fifth consecutive month, the growth forecast of global crude oil demand this year and next is lowered.EIA: The net import of crude oil in the United States will drop by 20% in 2025. The us energy information administration (EIA) said on Tuesday that it is expected that the net import of crude oil in the United States will drop by 20% to 1.9 million barrels per day next year, which will be the lowest level since 1971, suggesting that the output of the United States will increase and the demand of refineries will decrease. EIA said in its Short-term Energy Outlook in December that the US oil production is expected to increase from 13.24 million barrels per day in 2024 to 13.52 million barrels per day in 2025. EIA also said that the crude oil processing capacity of refineries will be 16 million barrels per day in 2025, a decrease of 200,000 barrels per day compared with 2024. EIA now predicts that the average spot price of Brent crude oil in 2025 will be $73.58 per barrel, which is lower than the previous forecast of $76.06 per barrel. The average spot price of crude oil in the United States is $69.12 per barrel, which is lower than the last forecast of $71.60 per barrel.JPMorgan Chase's guidance on adjusting net interest income is now expected to exceed analysts' expectations. JPMorgan Chase changed the previous statement that analysts were too optimistic, saying that the bank now expects net interest income to exceed expectations next year. Marianne Lake, head of consumer and community banking in JPMorgan Chase, said at a financial services conference hosted by Goldman Sachs Group on Tuesday that this key income may be about $2 billion higher than the current estimate.

Jinggu Forestry: The application for issuing A shares to a specific target was accepted by Shanghai Stock Exchange. Jinggu Forestry announced that the company received the Notice on Accepting the Application for Issuing Securities by Listed Companies on the Main Board of Yunnan Jinggu Forestry Co., Ltd. in Shanghai Stock Exchange on December 11, 2024. The Shanghai Stock Exchange checked the prospectus and related application documents submitted by the company for the issuance of securities by listed companies on the main board of Shanghai Stock Exchange, and considered that the application documents were complete and in line with the statutory form, and decided to accept them and conduct audit according to law. The company's issue of A shares to a specific target needs to be examined and approved by the Shanghai Stock Exchange and approved by the China Securities Regulatory Commission before it can be implemented.The news before the US stock market was delivered by express delivery. ① The three major stock index futures of the US stock market were mixed, and the market held its breath for CPI tonight. ② As of press time, Dow futures fell by 0.13%, S&P 500 futures rose by 0.11%, and Nasdaq futures rose by 0.22%. (3) Germany's DAX index rose 0.08%, Britain's FTSE 100 index rose 0.08%, France's CAC40 index rose 0.07%, and Europe's Stoxx 50 index fell 0.07%. ④WTI crude oil rose 1.04% to $69.30/barrel. Brent crude oil rose 0.97% to $72.89/barrel. 90% economists predict that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates by 25 basis points next week. 6 Goldman Sachs is firmly bullish on gold: the price of gold can also rise to $3,000 under a strong dollar. ⑦ Many houses fell by about 6.5% before the market opened, and the company announced that it would raise $7 million by selling shares. ⑧ Yihang's smart market rose by more than 1%. In the news, Shenzhen has built the world's leading low-altitude economic industry ecology. 9 Macy's fell 12% before the market, and the company lowered its profit forecast for the fiscal year.The United States has approved the sale of arms facilities worth nearly 600 million US dollars to Kuwait and Ukraine. The US Department of Defense said in a statement that the State Council has approved the sale of vehicle maintenance equipment with an estimated value of 300 million US dollars to Kuwait. On the same day, it also approved the sale of F-16 fighter maintenance services and related equipment to the Ukrainian government at a cost of US$ 266.4 million.

The first intellectual property securitization product in Henan was issued, and the first special plan for supporting intellectual property assets in Henan Province (Huatai-Luoyang Guohong Industrial and Financial Intellectual Property Assets Support Special Plan [Specializing in Expertise and Innovating]) with Luoyang Industrial and Financial Group as the original owner was issued in the capital market, with the issuance scale of 133 million yuan and coupon rate accounting for 2.67%, which indicated that the intellectual property securitization business in Henan Province had achieved a "zero breakthrough". This special plan takes the intellectual property pledge loan claims of 25 scientific and technological innovation enterprises in Luoyang as the underlying assets, covering scientific and technological enterprises in many important fields such as high-end equipment manufacturing, new energy, electronic information, energy conservation and environmental protection, providing financial support for scientific and technological enterprises from research and development to industrialization, and boosting the transformation and application of intellectual property value from "intellectual property" to "assets". (Dahe Finance Cube)Xiangming Intelligent: Shareholder Yang Jianfen completed the reduction of 1% of the shares, and Xiangming Intelligent (301226.SZ) announced that the shareholder Yang Jianfen reduced the company's shares by 1.088 million shares from November 29, 2024 to December 10, 2024, accounting for 1% of the total share capital. This reduction plan has been completed.Brent crude oil futures closed at $72.19 a barrel, up 0.07%.