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German Chancellor Angela Scholz called for a vote of confidence to pave the way for the February 23rd election.Syrian opposition forces announced the lifting of the curfew in Damascus. The Sham Liberation Organization, which currently controls the Syrian capital Damascus, issued a statement on the afternoon of the 11th local time, informing Damascus to lift the curfew and calling on local residents to return to their jobs and contribute to the construction of the city. Earlier, the organization announced that a curfew was imposed in Damascus, the capital of Syria. (CCTV News)Traders increased their bets on the Fed's interest rate cut. After the CPI report was released, swap traders increased their bets on the Fed's interest rate cut before the end of 2025. They now predict that by that time, they will cut interest rates by 87 basis points, which means that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates by 25 basis points next week. In 2025, there will be another two interest rate cuts of 25 basis points each time, which is less than the four times proposed by Fed officials in the latest quarterly bitmap in September.

Polish and Estonian Prime Ministers held talks to discuss regional security and other issues. Polish Prime Minister Tusk met with Estonian Prime Minister michal in Warsaw on December 11th, local time. The two countries discussed the issues of aid to Ukraine, regional security and cooperation, and Poland's taking over the rotating presidency of the European Union. Michal pointed out at a news conference that it is necessary for NATO member countries to spend more than 2.5% of their gross domestic product (GDP) on defense, and Estonia has already exceeded 2% of GDP in 2022. Michal pointed out that NATO countries are still lacking in air defense and ammunition production capacity, which must be solved quickly. Tusk said that he shared the same attitude with michal on regional security and aid to Ukraine, and he hoped that the conflict between Russia and Ukraine could be ended in a way acceptable to all. (CCTV News)Ping An Property & Casualty Shanghai Branch responded with a fine: the internal accountability mechanism was started, and the rectification work was carried out. On December 11th, the ticket disclosed by Shanghai Supervision Bureau of the State Financial Supervision and Administration Bureau showed that China Ping An Property Insurance Co., Ltd. Shanghai Branch was fined 730,000 yuan for entrusting an institution without legal qualification to engage in insurance sales activities, and compiling or providing false reports, statements, documents and materials. In this regard, Ping An Property & Casualty Shanghai Branch responded that the company completely obeyed the punishment decision of the regulatory authorities, and ordered the punished institutions to carefully analyze the causes of the problems found in the supervision at the first time, and started the internal accountability mechanism to pursue the relevant responsible persons. In response to the problems pointed out by the regulatory authorities, the relevant departments have been instructed to take the lead in organizing the relevant institutions to carry out rectification work, and to carry out self-examination and self-correction of related problems and centralized rectification work. (澎湃)UN Secretary-General Guterres: I fully believe that the Syrian people can choose their own destiny.

Diplomat: The EU envoy failed to reach an agreement on the 15th round of sanctions against Russia.Before the release of CPI in the United States, the probability of the Fed cutting interest rates by 25 basis points in December was 86.1%. According to CME's "Fed Observation", the probability of the Fed keeping the current interest rate unchanged by December was 13.9%, and the cumulative probability of cutting interest rates by 25 basis points was 86.1%. The probability of keeping the current interest rate unchanged by January next year is 10.6%, the probability of cutting interest rates by 25 basis points is 69.1%, and the probability of cutting interest rates by 50 basis points is 20.2%.Macy's fell 8.2% before the market, and the company lowered its profit outlook after discovering accounting errors.