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South Korea's tourism industry has been hit, and the mayor of Seoul promised to ensure the safety of tourists. Recently, South Korea's tourism industry has been hit by the emergency martial law storm, and many hotels and travel agencies have been unsubscribed. Seoul Mayor SE HUN promised to take measures to ensure the safety of tourists on the 11th and urged foreign tourists to visit Seoul. SE HUN said at the meeting that a large number of people gathered near Gwanghwamun and Ruyi Island in Seoul recently, but the related activities were generally peaceful and no safety accidents occurred. According to him, Seoul's safety standards are still quite high. (Xinhua News Agency)At the opening of the night session, the main contract of No.20 glue rose by nearly 2%, and the main contracts of low sulfur fuel oil (LU) and coking coal rose by over 1%. In terms of decline, the main contract of alumina fell by more than 1%, and the main contract of palm oil and soybean meal fell by nearly 1%.Spot gold just broke through the $2,690.00/oz mark, and the latest price was $2,689.72/oz, down 0.15% in the day.

Beijing Auto: BAIC Investment and Hyundai Motor invested US$ 1.095 billion in Beijing Hyundai. Beijing Auto announced that on December 11, 2024, BAIC Investment and Hyundai Motor entered into an agreement, and both parties agreed to jointly invest US$ 1.095 billion in Beijing Hyundai according to the proportion of their respective registered capital, and both parties invested US$ 548 million respectively. The capital injection will be carried out in stages. After the capital injection is completed, the registered capital of Beijing Hyundai will increase to US$ 4.074 billion, and Beijing Hyundai will still be owned by BAIC Investment and Hyundai Motor respectively, and will continue to be accounted for as a joint venture of the Company.The personal pension fund will be expanded to broad-based index products, and the personal pension pilot will be fully liberalized in the near future, expanding from the original 36 pilot cities to the whole country. At the same time, personal pension fund products are also expanding, and some mature broad-based ETF-linked funds and broad-based index OTC products will add Y shares. It is reported that the investable products included in personal pension may include over-the-counter products tracking nearly 20 broad-based indexes such as Shanghai and Shenzhen 300 Index, CSI 500 Index, CSI 800 Index, GEM Index and Kechuang 50 Index. (21 Finance)The China Securities Association held a meeting of directors and all members of the regional equity market professional committee, and the meeting of directors and all members of the regional equity market professional committee of the Securities Association was held in Chongqing on December 5th. The regional equity market should further thoroughly implement the spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, take the new "National Nine Articles" as a guide, persist in comprehensively deepening reforms, strive to break down institutional and institutional obstacles and structural problems, explore innovative pilot projects according to local conditions, develop new quality productivity, and establish a basic service system, a comprehensive financial service system and a listing standard cultivation system that are in line with local conditions and the characteristics of small and medium-sized enterprises, so as to continuously improve the comprehensive financial service capability. At the same time, the positioning function of regional equity market is still in the exploration stage, and innovation exploration in various places should pay attention to both standardization and development, and various risk prevention and control and supporting measures should be in place simultaneously.

CITIC Bank: Redemption of open-ended capital bonds. CITIC Bank announced that from December 9 to December 11, 2019, it issued RMB 40 billion of open-ended capital bonds (hereinafter referred to as "current bonds"), and on December 12, 2019, it issued the Announcement of China CITIC Bank Corporation on the Completion of Issuance of Open-ended Capital Bonds. According to the relevant provisions of the prospectus of this issue, this issue has the issuer's conditional redemption right, and the issuer has the right to redeem this issue in whole or in part on the interest payment date of the fifth year of this issue, that is, December 11, 2024. As of the date of this announcement, with the approval of the State Financial Supervision and Administration, the Bank has exercised the right of redemption and redeemed the bonds in full.HSBC is studying plans to cut costs by at least $3 billion. On December 11th, it was reported that HSBC Holdings was studying plans to cut costs by at least $3 billion. According to people familiar with the matter, HSBC told managers last week that its reform would not be completed until June 2025. These people said that the total cost savings are still in progress, but executives hope that this work will help them reduce their expenses by at least $3 billion.The minimum acceptable price of the two-year national debt issued by the Ministry of Finance in Hong Kong is 100.62 yuan. The minimum acceptable price of the five-year national debt issued by the Ministry of Finance in Hong Kong is 102.41 yuan.