US Senate Majority Leader Schumer will meet with Secretary of State nominee rubio later today.Citizen Financial Holdings rose 3.3% to an intraday high.The chief financial officer of Goldman Sachs said that it is expected that strategic M&A activities will accelerate in 2025.
The US military temporarily grounded the Osprey again. The US Marine Corps, Navy and Air Force confirmed to the media on December 9 that for security reasons, the US military has temporarily grounded the Osprey tilt-rotor transport aircraft again on a global scale. In the past five years, there have been frequent accidents of Osprey transport aircraft in various places, and the safety of Osprey has been questioned.Latvian Foreign Minister Blase said that we will cooperate with anyone appointed by Trump.The Syrian transitional government officially took over power. Who is the caretaker prime minister? According to pro-Syrian opposition media reports on the 10th, the Syrian transitional government with Mohamed Bashir as caretaker prime minister officially took over power on the same day. The resume published on the website of "Syrian National Salvation Government" shows that Bashir was born in the Zawiyah Mountain area of Idlib province in northwest Syria in 1983. In 2007, he graduated from the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Aleppo University, Syria, majoring in communication, and taught after graduation. In 2011, he became the head of the precision instrument department of a laboratory of Syrian natural gas company. In March 2011, Bashir participated in anti-government demonstrations in Syria. In 2012, Bashir gave up his post in the Syrian government and formally joined the Syrian opposition, engaging in military, civil affairs, education and other fields in the opposition-controlled areas. After the opposition established the "Syrian Government for Salvation" in 2017, Bashir worked in the Ministry of Charity and Missionary and the Ministry of Development and Humanitarian Affairs. From 2022 to 2023, Bashir served as the Minister of Development and Humanitarian Affairs. In January 2024, Bashir became the Prime Minister of the Syrian National Salvation Government. According to public information, the "Syrian Government for Salvation" was established in 2017 with the support of the Syrian opposition armed "Liberation Syria" Alliance (also translated as "Sham Liberation Organization"), which is considered to be one of the main forces to defeat the Syrian government forces. (World Wide Web)
The New Zealand dollar fell 1% against the US dollar to 0.5804.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.USD/JPY stood at 152 for the first time since the end of November, rising by 0.41% in the day.