1. Shipments by North American semiconductor equipment manufacturers (the three-month moving average) hit another all-time high of $3.93 billion in SEMI:11 month, up 5 per cent from October and 50.6 per cent year-on-year.

2. According to CNN and Fox News, US President Joe Biden said in an interview with the media on December 22, local time: “if he is in good health, he will take part in the 2024 election and seek re-election.”

3. Us: in November, the core PCE price index rose 4.7 per cent from a year earlier and is expected to be 4.5 per cent, the highest since 1989; month-on-month growth of 0.5 per cent, an estimate of 0.4 per cent and a previous value of 0.4 per cent.

4. The Japanese Atomic Power Regulatory Commission held a regular meeting to discuss the future review policy around the application of the nuclear sewage discharge plan. At present, Tepco’s water storage tanks at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant can store 1.37 million tons of nuclear sewerage. As of December 16, the reserves have reached 1.29 million tons, and more than 90% of the water storage tanks are full.

5. America’s PCE price index rose 5.7% in November from a year earlier, the highest since 1982. The US personal consumption expenditure core deflator (core PCE price index) rose 0.5 per cent month-on-month in November, compared with an estimated 0.4 per cent and a previous value of 0.4 per cent. The core PCE price index in the United States rose 4.7% in November from a year earlier and is expected to reach 4.5%, the highest level since 1989.

6. The South Korean government said it was discussing the issue of reducing the ownership tax burden on homeowners, but made clear its opposition to the political proposal to temporarily retain a higher transfer tax on multiple homeowners, saying there were no plans to change the current plan. Residential property prices in South Korea rose 23.9% from July to September compared with the same period last year, the biggest increase among the 56 countries in the global house price index, according to the Global Housing Price Index released by British real estate consultancy Knight Frank12 on March 19.

7. According to the data released by the Global Banking and Financial Telecommunications Association (SWIFT) on December 22nd local time, in November 2021, in the ranking of global payment currencies based on amount statistics, the RMB global payment ranking remained the fifth in the world. Proportionally, the share of global payments in renminbi rose from 1.85 per cent in October to 2.14 per cent in November; in terms of amount, in November 2021, renminbi payments increased by 18.89 per cent compared with October, while overall payments in all currencies increased by 2.87 per cent over the same period.

8. IMF: the US dollar accounted for 59.15% of known global reserves in the third quarter, while the proportion of RMB rose. The euro’s share of global reserves was flat at 20.48 per cent in the third quarter, according to quarterly global foreign exchange reserve data released by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The renminbi accounted for 2.66 per cent of global reserves in the third quarter. Sterling accounted for 4.78% of global reserves in the third quarter. The yen accounted for 5.83% of global reserves in the third quarter. The share of global reserves of the Canadian dollar fell to 2.19 per cent in the third quarter. The Australian dollar’s share of global reserves fell to 1.81 per cent in the third quarter.