Market news: South Korea's ruling party has elected a new party leader, and the new leader said that a presidential election may be held soon.The yield spread of US 10-year Treasury bonds relative to China's has widened to about 250 basis points, the largest in 22 years.The Ministry of Water Resources started the emergency water quantity dispatching of the Pearl River during the dry season from 2024 to 2025. It was learned from the Ministry of Water Resources that the first emergency water quantity dispatching of the Pearl River during the dry season from 2024 to 2025 was started at 8: 00 on December 12. According to the Ministry of Water Resources, through the implementation of this emergency water regulation, the runoff of the lower reaches of Xijiang River and Beijiang River will continue to increase, which can effectively suppress the salty tide in the Pearl River estuary and increase the water storage capacity of local reservoirs in Zhuhai and other places. The Ministry of Water Resources will guide the Pearl River Water Conservancy Commission and the water conservancy departments of the relevant provinces (autonomous regions) to closely monitor the rain, water and salt conditions in the Pearl River Basin, forecast the scope and extent of the upstream influence of salt tide, issue early warning in time, implement unified dispatching of river basin water projects, and make every effort to ensure the water supply safety of important cities in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
Zou Yingguang, General Manager of CITIC Securities: It is expected that the demand for cross-border investment and financing at home and abroad will be further released. At the investor open day of CITIC Securities in 2024, Zou Yingguang, General Manager of CITIC Securities, said that the demand for two-way cross-border investment and financing is very strong, whether it is a China enterprise "going abroad" or an overseas investor "coming to China". Among them, with the rapid evolution of China's new open economic system, cross-border finance will usher in greater development space, and securities companies will be in cross-border finance. In the medium and long term, China's macro securitization rate is still accelerating, the internationalization of Chinese-funded enterprises will continue to increase, and the opening up of China's capital market will continue to increase. It is expected that the demand for cross-border investment and financing from domestic and foreign customers will be further released.The extremist organization claimed responsibility for the attack on the headquarters of the Afghan Refugee and Repatriation Affairs Department. On the 12th local time, the Islamic State khorasan province, a branch of the extremist organization, claimed responsibility for the attack on the headquarters of the Afghan Refugee and Repatriation Affairs Department. On the 11th, a suicide attack occurred at the headquarters of the Afghan Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation, which killed four people and seriously injured four others. Khalil Rahman Haqqani, Acting Minister of the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation, died in the attack.According to the data released by Shanghai Steel Union, the price of battery-grade lithium carbonate (in early trading) was the same as that of the previous day, with an average price of 76,450 yuan/ton.
An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.6 occurred in the sea area northeast of Fiji. According to the measurement of the European and Mediterranean Earthquake Center, at 13: 51 local time on December 12th, a magnitude of 5.6 earthquake occurred in the sea area 478 kilometers northeast of Suva, Fiji (15.201 degrees south latitude and 178.282 degrees west longitude) with a focal depth of 10 kilometers.The bauxite of the Guinea project of Tianshan Aluminum Group was shipped for the first time. According to the news of Tianshan Aluminum Group, on the afternoon of December 11th, local time in Guinea, Zeng Chaolin, the chairman of the company, attended and presided over the first shipment ceremony of the bauxite of Guinea project. This inaugural ceremony marks that the whole chain of the project has entered the operation stage. Subsequently, the company will increase infrastructure investment and mining scale, and gradually increase production capacity and transportation capacity. It is expected that the bauxite self-sufficiency rate will be 100% within two years, ensuring the company to obtain stable and low-cost bauxite resources and continuously maintain the competitive advantage of the integrated industrial chain.Zuckerberg is reported to have donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund.