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Spot gold fell below $2,660 per ounce, down 0.77% in the day.Israel pressured the Palestinian National Authority to search for militants. The Palestinian National Authority admitted on the 12th that Palestinian security forces killed a 19-year-old civilian man during an operation in the West Bank city of Jenin earlier this week. Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) accused the Palestinian National Authority of searching for "resistance fighters" and said that Palestine should avoid internal conflicts. According to Israeli media reports, the Israeli side pressured the Palestinian National Authority to intensify the search, and threatened that if the Palestinian security forces could not do it, the Israeli army would do it. (Xinhua News Agency)News before the US stock market, ① The three major stock index futures of the US stock market rose together, and crude oil futures rose by more than 1%. Today, the US import/export price index for November was announced. ② As of press time, Dow futures rose 0.26%, S&P 500 futures rose 0.36%, and Nasdaq futures rose 0.73%. (3) Germany's DAX index rose by 0.47%, Britain's FTSE 100 index rose by 0.15%, France's CAC40 index rose by 0.38% and Europe's Stoxx 50 index rose by 0.46%. ④WTI crude oil rose 1.19% to 70.85 USD/barrel. Brent crude oil rose 1.16% to $74.26/barrel. ⑤ Societe Generale warned that the recession index of 75-year winning streak indicates that the United States may be in recession. Behind the record high of American stock market, there is a trend that worries Wall Street strategists: fewer and fewer stocks support the stock market. ⑦ Xpeng Motors fell more than 3.5% before trading and was downgraded to "sell" by UBS. ⑧ Broadcom rose about 14% before the market, and the company's Q4 profit exceeded expectations. Pet-name ruby ZTO Express rose more than 1% before trading, and the average monthly express business volume in China reached 14 billion pieces.

General Administration of Market Supervision: Efforts should be made to optimize the consumption environment and promote large-scale equipment renewal and trade-in of consumer goods by standards. The party group of General Administration of Market Supervision held an enlarged meeting to convey the spirit of studying the Central Economic Work Conference. The meeting demanded that the construction of a unified national market should be accelerated, fair competition governance should be strengthened, and the economic cycle should be promoted smoothly. Efforts should be made to optimize the consumption environment, promote large-scale equipment renewal and trade-in of consumer goods with standards, and help expand domestic demand. It is necessary to give full play to the supporting role of quality infrastructure and boost scientific and technological innovation and the development of new quality productive forces. Efforts should be made to standardize the market order and promote mutual benefit and win-win for all parties in the platform economy. It is necessary to constantly optimize the ways and means of market supervision, improve the efficiency of supervision, and stabilize market expectations. It is necessary to effectively improve the safety supervision ability of food, medicine, industrial products and special equipment, and timely prevent and resolve major risks. It is necessary to improve the working mechanism for implementing the decision-making and deployment of the CPC Central Committee and strengthen the comprehensive and strict management of the party's political responsibility. It is necessary to do a good job in safe production in the field of market supervision at the end of the year and at the beginning of the year, and stabilize the price and quality of important people's livelihood commodities.On December 13th, Shaanxi Supervision Bureau of the State Financial Supervision and Administration issued an administrative penalty message showing that Baoji Central Branch of Ancheng Property Insurance Co., Ltd. was fined 60,000 yuan for giving benefits other than the insurance contract. The salesman of Baoji Central Branch of Ancheng Property Insurance Co., Ltd. was warned and fined 10,000 yuan.Joint Statement by the Foreign Ministers of People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Arab Republic of Egypt (full text) and Joint Statement by the Foreign Ministers of People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Arab Republic of Egypt 1. On December 13, 2024, Commissioner the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and Foreign Minister Wang Yi held a strategic dialogue with Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Immigration Abdul Atti. 2. The two sides exchanged in-depth and comprehensive views on China-Egypt relations and international and regional issues of common concern, and jointly reviewed the development achievements made by the two countries since the establishment of diplomatic relations, especially since the establishment of a comprehensive strategic partnership 10 years ago. 3. The two sides stressed the need to implement the important consensus reached by the two heads of state at their two meetings in 2024, take the "China-Egypt Year of Partnership" as a new starting point, and push bilateral relations to a higher goal of building a community of destiny between China and Egypt facing the new era. The two sides appreciated the many diplomatic, economic, trade, investment, cultural and tourism activities held by the two countries this year to promote and develop bilateral relations in various fields. (Xinhua News Agency)

Bayrou was appointed as the new Prime Minister of France. French public opinion regards him as a staunch political ally of Macron. The Elysee Palace, the French presidential palace, announced on the 13th that President Macron appointed francois bayrou, chairman of the Democratic Movement Party, as the new Prime Minister on the same day, replacing Banier, who resigned after being impeached by the National Assembly. According to French media reports, Macron had a telephone conversation with Bayrou on the evening of 12th, and on the morning of 13th, Macron met Bayrou in the presidential palace and talked again. Macron subsequently announced the appointment decision. Bayrou became the fourth French prime minister this year. Beru founded the Democratic Movement Party, a centrist party, in 2007, and has served as its chairman ever since. In 2017, Bayrou announced that he would give up running for the French president, and formed an alliance with Macron, one of the popular candidates in the presidential election at that time and the chairman of the "Forward" movement, to fully support Macron's presidential election. In 2022, in the process of Macron's re-election, Bayrou led the Democratic Movement Party to continue to form an alliance with the ruling party. French public opinion regards Bayrou as a staunch political ally of Macron. (Xinhua News Agency)Market News: Turkish anti-monopoly agency fined Google $75 million for advertising technology investigation.Market News: Argentine President Milei met with Rio Tinto CEO Meloni in Rome.