Citigroup's chief financial officer said that the spending of American consumers in its branded credit card business between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday increased by a median digit year-on-year.On December 10th, it was learned from China Academy of Sciences that the research device of heavy ions with low energy and high current and high charge state, a major national scientific research instrument, has been accepted by experts organized by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and the research of heavy ions in China has been added with new tools.Swedish Finance Minister: Europe should set the deficit target within 3%, and Europe must triple its capital market.
Dow Jones opened down 0.2%, S&P 500 rose 0.1%, Nasdaq rose 0.3%, Oracle Bone Inscriptions fell 7.8%, and Q2 revenue fell short of expectations. Data platform MongoDB fell 7.3%, CFO and COO will leave. Alaska Airlines rose 12.0% to buy back $1.1 billion in shares. Dada Group fell 2.5% and Mizuho lowered its target price to $3.50.Trump's nominated chairman of the SEC once blamed the US government for FTX's downfall, and Trump's nominated chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission once blamed the FTX cryptocurrency exchange's collapse on an unusual suspect, that is, the US government itself. Atkins, 66, witnessed the disaster of FTX with his own eyes, and the collapse of the encryption empire still reverberates in the digital asset world. Patomak Global Partners, his consulting firm in Washington, DC, was listed as a creditor of FTX bankruptcy case, and the date of signing the consulting agreement of its board of directors was January 2022, about 10 months before the bankruptcy of Bankman-Fried. According to court documents, the company also served as a lobbyist for FTX. Atkins pointed out in a podcast last year that "the collapse of FTX was an international disaster, and I think it was because the United States did not formulate rules to adapt to this new technology". He also admitted that the fraud of Bankman-Fried was the core reason for the collapse of the exchange.The chief financial officer of Goldman Sachs said that it is expected that strategic M&A activities will accelerate in 2025.
White House: Biden is fully briefed by the National Security Team.ISHARES China ETF fell 4.3%.OPEC Secretary-General Haitham al Ghais was re-elected. The next regular meeting of OPEC will be held on May 28th, 2025.