Fed Goolsby: The economy will continue at a steady pace as we move into 2026.

US President Trump: Nominated Troy Edgar as the next US Ambassador to El Salvador.

According to NBC News: U.S. President Trump is expected to sign an executive order as early as this week to speed up the reclassification process of marijuana.

New energy vehicles:1. Japan plans to increase taxes on pure electric vehicles in 2028. 2. Changan Automobile: With the expansion of L3 scale, it can be reduced to 150,000-level models in the future. 3. Xpeng executives revealed that L3 is expected to be fully launched in the next quarter. 4. Hongmeng Zhixing starts internal testing of L3 conditional autonomous driving. 5. Tesla was required to make rectifications within a time limit in California, otherwise sales would be suspended. 6. Waymo is discussing raising billions of dollars in funding at a valuation of more than $100 billion. 7. Tesla: Plans to produce up to 8 gigawatt hours (GWh) of battery cells per year in Berlin starting in 2027. Artificial Intelligence:1. Qianwen launched a new AI mini theater function. 2. Alibaba releases movie-level video model Wanxiang 2.6. 3. Doubao AI mobile phone has resumed sales, and was interviewed to refute the rumors. 4. ByteDance Seedance 1.5 pro audio and video creation model is officially released. 5. Meta launches SAM Audio, an AI model for sound segmentation. Others:1. The United States threatens to take countermeasures against EU companies over digital tax issues. 2. Foreign media: Apple plans to expand its iPhone product line from five to seven models by the fall of 2027. 3. A former employee of 360 claimed to have helped Zhou Hongyi "make false accounts worth at least several billion." Zhou Hongyi issued a statement: Extremely untrue and the impact was bad. 4. Taiwanese media: Samsung Electronics is close to finalizing an agreement with NVIDIA and will supply more than 30% of its sixth-generation HBM4 chips in 2026.

Market news: The United States and Japan will consider projects that may use US$550 billion in funds.

Japan's seasonally adjusted merchandise trade balance in November was 62.893 billion yen, expected to be -206.9 billion yen, and the previous value was -4.222 billion yen.