Goldman Sachs CFO Coleman: US President-elect Trump announced the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). It is expected that this progress will lead to more M&A transactions.Mackler, Governor of the Bank of Canada: The current policy focus is to keep inflation close to the target. Mackler, Governor of the Bank of Canada: Due to the sales tax holiday, the overall rate is expected to slow down to 1.5% in January. We will focus on core inflation indicators to help us evaluate CPI trends. It is expected that the inflation rate will drop at the end of the sales tax holiday. The current policy focus is to keep inflation close to the target. We hope to see economic growth accelerate to absorb unused capacity in the economy and keep the inflation rate at around 2%.Saudi Arabia won the right to host the 2034 World Cup, and the FIFA Council confirmed that the 2034 World Cup will be hosted by Saudi Arabia, which is the third time that Asia has hosted the World Cup. At the same time, Saudi Arabia is also the only bidding country for the 2034 World Cup. The Saudi Football Association announced its bid to host the 2034 World Cup on October 9, 2023. By the deadline of November 1, 2023, there was still only one bidding country in Saudi Arabia. This is the first time in nearly 60 years that FIFA has determined the right to host the World Cup without competitors. Saudi Arabia is also the fourth Asian country to host the World Cup after South Korea and Japan in 2002 and Qatar in 2022. This is the second time that the World Cup has entered West Asia.
After the announcement of the Bank of Canada's interest rate decision, USD/CAD fell 50 points to 1.4140.Hershey's share price fell by about 4%.Fitch: The progress of inflation decline seems to have ended. Brian Coulton, chief economist of Fitch, said that the decline of core commodity prices (the main force of inflation decline this year) seems to have ended. With the increase of automobile prices, the core commodity prices rose by 0.3% month-on-month. Service inflation is declining, but the rate of decline is very slow, because rent inflation is stubborn, and the service inflation is 4.6%, which is still far higher than the pre-epidemic level.
Bitcoin exceeded $99,000/piece, up 2.49% in the day.The Canadian dollar expanded its gains to an intraday high.Goldman Sachs CFO Coleman: US President-elect Trump announced the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). It is expected that this progress will lead to more M&A transactions.