The USD/CHF intraday decline expanded to 0.8%, at 0.8366.

German Geoscience Research Center: A 6.5-magnitude earthquake occurred on Sakhalin Island.

Shell (SHEL.N): The Prelude floating liquefied natural gas facility in Australia has completed major modifications and LNG cargo shipments have resumed.

German Geoscience Research Center: A 6.0-magnitude earthquake occurred on Sakhalin Island.

Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa will visit Poland, Finland, Sweden, the Netherlands, the United States, Canada and Germany starting from January 5.

Deputy Governor of the Bank of Russia: But we will start lowering the main interest rate in 2024.

Deputy Governor of the Bank of Russia: We need to keep key interest rates high for a long time.

Spot palladium fell more than 2.00% during the day and is currently trading at $1,129.88 per ounce.

Brent crude oil fell by US$0.4 in the short term, falling below US$79/barrel, down 0.32% on the day.

Hong Kong Stock Exchange documents show that on December 22, JPMorgan Chase’s shareholding ratio in Bilibili (BILI.O) increased from 6.94% to 7.22%.

London Metal Exchange (LME) aluminum inventories increased 5.2%, the highest level since June.

Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov: The West’s strategy of trying to launch a strategic attack on Russia has completely failed.

Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov: We hope that the goals of Ukraine’s special military operations can be achieved.

The South African rand fell 1% against the dollar.

German electricity prices will fall by 5.9% to 92 euros/MWh in the next year.

Bank of Thailand: As of the end of the third quarter, Thailand’s household debt-to-GDP ratio increased slightly to 90.9%.

According to RIA Novosti: The Prime Minister of Romania announced that Romania will join the Schengen Area and a political agreement has been reached on this. Schengen air and sea borders will be lifted for Romanian residents starting in March next year.

UK 10-year government bond yields opened at 3.433%, their lowest level since April.

Turkey seeks to acquire U.S. F-16 engines for its domestic fighter jets.

According to the French newspaper Le Figaro: Lebanese Hezbollah leader Nasrallah was informed half an hour before the attack on October 7 that Hamas planned to launch a multi-pronged attack on southern Israel.