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The FBI director said that his resignation was the best way to avoid friction. Christopher Babers, the FBI director who decided to resign, explained his decision, saying that it was the best way to avoid further friction against the background of criticism from President-elect Trump who was seeking to appoint his cronies as the head of the intelligence department. The FBI quoted Lei as saying: "My purpose is to continue to focus on our mission-the irreplaceable work we do on behalf of Americans every day. I think this is the best way to avoid getting the FBI involved in more friction. " He added that the decision to resign was not easy for him.Institution: The battery price stabilized in November, and it is expected to rise slightly in 2025. On December 12, according to the latest research of TrendForce Jibang Consulting, in November 2024, the sales of electric vehicles in China continued to increase, which boosted the demand for power batteries, and the price of Ferrous lithium phosphate batteries remained stable, while the ternary batteries declined slightly. The demand for batteries in the energy storage market maintained the peak season characteristics, and with the price advantage of large-capacity batteries, the proportion of shipments increased. However, the average price of energy storage batteries continued to decline in November due to the slowdown in demand for orders at the end of the year. The agency expects that the price of some lithium battery materials may rise slightly in the peak season of 2025, which is expected to repair the serious losses of the company in the early stage. However, due to the fact that the relationship between supply and demand has not changed from surplus to shortage, the expected increase in material prices is limited, and battery manufacturers actively control costs, the battery price trend will be stable next year.Japan's housing prices exceed the annual income by 10 times and Tokyo's by 18 times. According to the Nikkei News, in Japan, the price of new residential buildings has risen faster than the increase of wages, making it increasingly difficult for the actual demand class to afford. As an investment target, the popularity is deeply rooted, and developers also supply a large number of houses with over 100 million yen. Especially in Tokyo, the average price is 18 times of the annual income, and it is becoming a market that ignores the actual demand level. According to the prefectures and counties in Japan, the highest ratio of house price to income is 17.78 times that of Tokyo. The average annual income is 5.92 million yen, and the price of residential buildings reaches 105.26 million yen.

The CSI convertible bond index closed up by 0.46% at noon, while the auto model convertible bond, the alliance convertible bond and the profit convertible bond rose by 15.85%, 13.27% and 11.35% respectively. Tianyuan convertible bonds fell by 15.28% and Yingtong convertible bonds fell by 5.30%.Afternoon comments on Hong Kong stocks: Hang Seng Index rose by 1.72%, Hang Seng Technology Index rose by 2.55%, Hong Kong stocks closed at noon, Hang Seng Index rose by 1.72% and Hang Seng Technology Index rose by 2.55%. Chinese brokerage stocks and consumer stocks were among the top gainers, with China Merchants Securities, Mengniu Dairy and Tongcheng Travel up over 7% and over 5% respectively.Thai Prime Minister: Energy prices will fall next year.

Domestic big model fierce battle video generation track domestic video big model broke out in a concentrated way. Recently, all kinds of funny videos made with AI big model became popular on the Internet. Behind this is the rapid rise of domestic video models, and the threshold of Wensheng video and Tusheng video has been greatly reduced. At the end of March this year, the "Dream AI" platform was tested internally, and the web version was opened in May, and it was officially put on the mobile terminal in August. On June 6th, official website, a large model of "Keling" video generation, was officially launched, and 15 days later, it announced the launch of graphic video function. Various video generation models of Internet vendors have mushroomed. On July 4th, Shangtang Technology released Vimi；, a large model of character video generation; On July 6, the online AI generated a clear image of the video model; On September 19, Alibaba Cloud Tongyi Wanxiang released a video generation model, which launched the functions of Wensheng video and Tusheng video. On December 3rd, the video generation function of Tencent Hybrid Model was launched. The industry believes that at present, the domestic large-scale video model has significantly improved the consistency, controllability and richness of the picture. After improving the imaging quality and breaking through the bottleneck of generation time, it is expected to greatly open up the downstream commercial space.Iflytek and other robot technology companies have a registered capital of 30 million yuan. According to Tianyancha App, Anhui Lingdong General Robot Technology Co., Ltd. was recently established with Hu Guoping as the legal representative and a registered capital of 30 million yuan. Its business scope includes industrial robot manufacturing, industrial robot sales, intelligent robot research and development, electrical equipment sales, computer software and hardware and auxiliary equipment retail, information system integration services, intelligent robot sales, mechanical equipment leasing, etc. According to shareholder information, the company is jointly held by Anhui Xunfei Yunchuang Technology Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Iflytek (002230), Anhui Yanzhi Technology Co., Ltd. and Anhui Lingji Wanwu Technology Partnership (Limited Partnership).Another member of South Korea's ruling party said he would vote to impeach President Yoon.