According to Odaily, the U.S. stock market will close early on Wednesday, December 25, at 02:00 UTC+8, and remain closed on Thursday due to the Christmas holiday. Trading for CME's precious metals, energy, forex, and stock index futures contracts, as well as ICE's Brent crude oil futures contracts, will also end early today. Additionally, U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order granting federal government agencies a three-day holiday from December 24 to December 26. As a result, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) has postponed the release of its weekly crude oil and natural gas inventory data. The new release dates are set for December 29 at 23:30 UTC+8 for crude oil and December 30 at 01:00 UTC+8 for natural gas.