Bank of Canada Governor Macklem: Inflation is expected to be close to 2% later next year.

Bank of Canada Governor Macklem: The committee will continue to discuss whether monetary policy is tight enough and how long it needs to be tight.

Bank of Canada Governor Macklem: Volatility in the next few years is not expected to be as great as in the past few years.

Bank of Canada Governor Macklem: Economic growth and employment are expected to improve after 2024, and inflation will be close to the 2% target.

Bank of Canada Governor MacCallum: Once we are confident that we are clearly on the path back to price stability, we will consider whether and when we can cut interest rates.

Bank of Canada Governor Macklem said that the 2% inflation target has come into view; we have not yet reached the target, but conditions are increasingly conducive to achieving the target.

According to Nikkei: Japan’s newly established artificial intelligence security agency will study the application of ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence in military risks.

Lufthansa will resume flights to Tel Aviv, Israel, from January 8.

After the Bank of England announced its bond sales plan, the spread between the British 2-year and 30-year government bonds remained stable at 4 basis points.

According to a statement from the Qassam Brigades, an armed faction affiliated with Hamas, on the 15th, the organization fired multiple rockets towards Jerusalem that day.

The Bank of England has released a quantitative tightening bond sales plan for the first quarter of 2024. The Bank of England will tend to sell shorter-term bonds.

The U.S. Congressional Budget Office: It predicts that the core personal consumption expenditures price index will increase by 3.4% in 2023, lower than the 4.1% expected in July; it predicts that the core personal consumption expenditures price index will increase by 2.4% in 2024.

The U.S. Congressional Budget Office: The average unemployment rate is expected to be 3.9% in the fourth quarter of 2023, and the unemployment rate is expected to be 4.4% in the fourth quarter of 2024 and 2025.

The U.S. Congressional Budget Office: Maintained the U.S. GDP growth forecast in 2024 at 1.5%; revised the 2025 growth forecast to 2.2% from 2.4% in July.

The U.S. Congressional Budget Office: Revised its 2023 U.S. real gross domestic product (GDP) growth forecast to 2.5% from 0.9% in July, reflecting data as of December 5.

According to the Dutch ANP news agency: The Dutch government agrees to Bulgaria’s accession to the Schengen Area.

The S&P 500 turned positive and the Nasdaq 100 rose 0.7%.

The U.S. 30-year Treasury bond yield continues to fall, approaching 4%.

Fitch: Monetary policy changes and geopolitical conflicts will continue to be key drivers of gold investment demand in 2024.

Fitch: The key to nickel consumption growth in 2024 will be battery production.