Jon Finer, US Deputy National Security Adviser: (When asked about the prospect of the Gaza peace agreement before Biden's term ends) After the cease-fire of Hezbollah, this matter has gained new vitality. Biden wants to end the Gaza war and return the hostages to their homes. We will send officials to the Middle East in the next few weeks. The talks will focus on how to take the hostages home. This is the goal of this government in the remaining weeks.Apple will provide Globalstar satellite connection for smart watches, and Apple plans to provide Globalstar satellite communication function on smart watch devices. Future models will provide blood pressure testing tools, and the new watch will adopt MediaTek for the first time. The share price of Globalstar US stocks jumped, with an increase of as high as 21%.LME metal futures closed mixed, while LME copper futures closed down $16 to $9,216/ton. LME aluminum closed up $20 to $2,608/ton. LME zinc futures closed up $9 to $3,135/ton. LME lead closed down $3 to $2,064/ton. LME nickel futures closed down $281 to $15,715/ton. LME tin closed down $142 to $29,776/ton. LME cobalt was flat at $24,300/ton.
Onshore RMB rose 71 points against the US dollar last night, and onshore RMB against the US dollar (CNY) closed at 7.2491 yuan at 03:00 Beijing time, up 71 points from Monday's closing night. The turnover was $516 billion.Allianz's investment in national pension has been approved, and the pace of foreign investment in China's insurance market has accelerated. The State Financial Supervision and Administration recently approved the change of registered capital of national pension, and agreed that Allianz Investment Co., Ltd. will subscribe for 2% of the shares of national pension for about 284 million yuan, becoming the first foreign shareholder of national pension, thus increasing the registered capital of national pension to about 11.378 billion yuan. Since the beginning of this year, a number of foreign investors have increased the insurance market in China. Analysts said that this aspect shows that China's insurance industry has further deepened its opening to the outside world, providing a more relaxed policy environment for foreign investors to overweight China's insurance market; On the other hand, it shows that it has confidence in the development of insurance industry in China and will attract more foreign-funded institutions to enter the insurance market in China. (SSE)The Israeli Prime Minister said that he hoped to "establish relations" with the Syrian transitional government. On December 10, local time, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a video speech saying that Israel hopes to "establish relations" with the Syrian transitional government, but if it poses a threat to Israel, Israel will not hesitate to launch an attack. Netanyahu said that Israel has no intention of interfering in Syria's internal affairs, but will make all necessary efforts to ensure Israel's security. (CCTV)
The intraday increase of USD/CHF against the Swiss franc expanded to 0.50%, and it is now reported at 0.8831.The U.S. military statement said that senior U.S. generals in Middle East affairs visited U.S. troops in Syria.Biden: We have restored full employment and successfully reduced inflation. US President Biden: We have restored full employment and successfully reduced inflation, and achieved a soft landing that most people think is unlikely to happen. Next month, my government will end and a new one will begin. Most economists believe that the new government will inherit a fairly strong economy, and at least for now, the economy is undergoing a fundamental transformation. It has laid a more solid foundation for sustainable and broad-based high productivity growth. I sincerely hope that the new government can retain and further develop this achievement on this basis. We have created more than 16 million new jobs, which is the largest number of new jobs in any presidential term in American history. This is the lowest average unemployment rate among all governments in the past 50 years. The stock market hit a record high. I wish I owned a lot of stocks. Worst of all, I admit that for 36 years, I have been listed as the poorest person in Congress.