us digital dollar Featured

COMEX silver futures rose 1.0% in the day to $33.09 per ounce.CFO of Goldman Sachs: As President-elect Trump nominates candidates for government positions, the FTC may take a new direction.MicroStrategy rose more than 5%, and Bitcoin strengthened again today, rising nearly 4% to nearly $100,000.

Russian President Vladimir Putin: External sanctions are pushing Russia to develop artificial intelligence solutions.If the Bank of Canada cuts interest rates by 50bp as expected, it is expected that the pace of interest rate cuts will slow down. The Bank of Canada cut interest rates sharply for the second time in a row this month, and hinted that policymakers are prepared to slow down the pace of monetary easing. The bank cut interest rates by 50 basis points to 3.25%, bringing borrowing costs to the upper part of their expected range of neutral interest rates. However, they also hinted that after the sharp interest rate cut expected by the market and most economists, there may be a smaller interest rate cut again in 2025. Officials dropped their previous statement that they expected to further reduce borrowing costs. "With the policy interest rate greatly reduced, we expect that if the economic development is generally in line with expectations, monetary policy will adopt a more gradual approach," Bank of Canada Governor Mackler said in a prepared speech. "Looking ahead, we will evaluate the necessity of further reducing the policy interest rate one by one."Toronto stock index GSPTSE rose 0.21% to 25,558.81.

The S&P 500 index opened up 0.5%, while the Nasdaq 100 index rose 0.9%.China plans to build about 10,000 superior specialties of traditional Chinese medicine by 2029. The reporter learned from state administration of traditional chinese medicine on the 11th that China will promote the construction of superior specialties of traditional Chinese medicine at different levels to further improve the clinical efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine. By 2029, a network of superior specialties of traditional Chinese medicine with complete professional fields, wide geographical coverage, reasonable structural layout and obvious characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine will be formed, and the overall scale of superior specialties of traditional Chinese medicine in China will reach about 10,000. (Xinhua News Agency)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.