The international gold price plunged, and the COMEX gold main contract fell by 1.3%, approaching the $2,670 mark.A number of A-share companies "lead wars for their children" and state-owned institutions have become important buyers. Recently, subsidiaries of a number of listed companies in the A-share market have launched capital increase and share expansion in order to obtain more financial support. According to the incomplete statistics of the Securities Times reporter, since November alone, more than 10 listed companies have issued relevant announcements on the introduction of strategic investors by subsidiaries, most of which are distributed in power equipment, pharmaceutical biology, basic chemical industry and other industries. It is worth noting that many of the strategic investors introduced by the subsidiaries of the above-mentioned enterprises are state-owned investment institutions. For this wave of "war-inducing" trend, people in the industry interviewed by reporters believe that due to the influence of relevant policies, listed companies have great resistance to spin-off and listing, which is an important reason for their subsidiaries to increase their capital and shares. Most of the targets that state-owned investment institutions choose to buy shares are new businesses or core businesses of hard-tech enterprises, which can not only ensure the safety of state-owned funds, but also obtain high premium returns in future IPO opportunities. (Securities Times)Trump proposed that the EU send peacekeepers to Ukraine. On the 12th, the US Wall Street Journal quoted people familiar with the matter as saying that US President-elect Trump had proposed that EU member states send peacekeepers to Ukraine to monitor a possible ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia. The article said that on the 7th, during his talks with French President Macron and Ukrainian President Zelensky, Trump said that Europe should play a major role in monitoring the ceasefire, and the United States would not send troops to participate. According to the report, the proposal is still in its early stage, and it is still unclear which countries will participate, how many troops will be sent and what role the United States will play in it. At the same time, it is also unknown whether EU countries can deploy soldiers to participate in the mission and whether they can get domestic political support. However, according to informed sources, Trump is not obsessed with any specific plan to end the conflict, and he has not thought deeply about this issue at present.
The financial difficulties led to the sell-off of the real, and the Brazilian central bank intervened, and the Brazilian central bank intervened in the foreign exchange market, which led to the sell-off of the real due to the deterioration of the country's financial prospects. Before the central bank issued the intervention statement, the real hovered near the intraday low, and the decline quickly narrowed after the statement was issued. At 14:52 Sao Paulo time (1:52 am Beijing time), the real fell by only 0.4% against the US dollar, making it no longer the worst emerging market currency on Friday.Surveillance camera startup Verkada negotiated financing at a valuation of $4.5 billion.Chicago wheat futures fell more than 1.1%, US demand fell, and global supply was strong. In late new york on Friday (December 13th), the Bloomberg Grain Sub-index fell 0.71% to 31.5695 points, and this week it has fallen 0.09%. CBOT corn futures fell 0.23% to $ 4.42-1/2 a bushel, up 0.57% this week. CBOT wheat futures fell 1.16% to $5.52/bushel, down 0.72% this week. CBOT soybean futures fell 0.77% to 9.95-1/2 USD/bushel, down 0.25% this week; Soybean meal futures fell by 1.21%, and fell by 0.67% this week, while soybean oil futures fell by 0.07% and fell by 0.65% this week.
Canadian Finance Minister: In the face of possible tariffs imposed by the United States, Canada will not escalate the dispute and will not back down.Fitch: (Talking about American residential builders) It is estimated that the residential inventory will improve slightly in 2025, but it will remain at a low level, and it will vary from region to region.Fitch: (Talking about American residential builders) It is estimated that the residential inventory will improve slightly in 2025, but it will remain at a low level, and it will vary from region to region.