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The United Nations Security Council discussed the situation in Central Africa. China called on the international community to provide targeted help. On December 13, local time, the United Nations Security Council discussed the situation in Central Africa. The Chinese representative said that the current situation in Central Africa is generally stable, and the international community should provide targeted and constructive help in a timely manner to support regional countries in taking a development path in line with their own national conditions. The meeting was briefed by Abari, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Central Africa and Director of the UN Regional Office for Central Africa. Geng Shuang, Deputy Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations, said that it is necessary to maintain the overall positive momentum of the regional situation. In the past six months, the situation in Central Africa has been generally stable and the political peace process has made positive progress. Gabon held a constitutional referendum according to the established timetable, Rwanda successfully held a general election, and Chad continued to advance the process of peace and reconciliation. The progress is worthy of recognition and welcome. At present, many countries are actively preparing for general or local elections. We hope that all political forces in the countries concerned will strengthen dialogue and consultation, bridge differences, build consensus and steadily advance the political process. The international community should provide targeted and constructive help in a timely manner and support regional countries to take the development path that suits their own national conditions.Minsheng Securities: In 2025, the banking sector grasped three main lines. The Minsheng Securities Research Report pointed out that it is expected that the revenue growth rate of listed banks will remain under pressure and profits will maintain positive growth in 2025. Restricted by factors such as the slowdown of scale expansion, the pressure of narrowing the net interest margin, and the marginal reduction of the contribution of financial investment to revenue, there is still pressure on the year-on-year growth of listed banks' revenue in 2025. However, with the gradual progress of local debt resolution, the real estate package policy has gradually become effective, and the hidden risks of banks in real estate and urban investment assets are expected to be effectively alleviated, and banks can maintain a low level of impairment provision, which supports profit performance. Grasp three main lines: 1) low-valued stock banks: it is recommended to pay attention to China Merchants Bank, Industrial Bank and Shanghai Pudong Development Bank; 2) High-quality rural commercial banks in regional cities: banks benefiting from chemical bonds. It is recommended to pay attention to Chongqing Rural Commercial Bank, Chongqing Bank and regional high-quality banks, and Qilu Bank, Chengdu Bank, Changshu Bank and Hangzhou Bank. 3) High dividend banks: In the process of economic recovery, high dividend strategy has absolute income stability, so it is suggested to pay attention to state-owned big banks, Nanjing Bank and Shanghai Rural Commercial Bank.Many people were killed and injured in the explosion in Thailand. The reporter from the General Desk was informed that an explosion occurred at a festival in Umpan County, Thailand in the early morning of December 14th local time. According to local media reports, the explosion killed four people, including a 14-year-old child, and injured 48 others. The local police have arrived at the scene to investigate the case. (CCTV News)

Japan's Space One said that the Kairos rocket scheduled to be launched at 11:00 local time will be postponed.Many people were killed and injured in the explosion in Thailand. The reporter from the General Desk was informed that an explosion occurred at a festival in Umpan County, Thailand in the early morning of December 14th local time. According to local media reports, the explosion killed four people, including a 14-year-old child, and injured 48 others. The local police have arrived at the scene to investigate the case. (CCTV News)Meta stepped in to discourage OpenAI from turning into a profit-making enterprise, and Meta urged the Attorney General of California to stop OpenAI from turning into a profit-making enterprise. Meta said that allowing OpenAI to become a for-profit company will set a dangerous precedent, that is, allowing startups to enjoy the advantage of non-profit status before preparing for profit.

Payment licenses have been cancelled for a total of 94 times, and 9 payment institutions "left the site" during the year. Recently, Kaidianbao Payment Service Co., Ltd. issued the Notice on Suspension of Payment Business, saying that it would withdraw and clean up the existing stock business in an orderly manner. According to the list of cancelled payment institutions updated by official website, People's Bank of China, as of December 13 this year, 94 payment licenses have been confirmed to be cancelled, and the number of payment licenses cancelled this year is 9. (Securities Daily)National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC): We need to further strengthen the effective consumption promotion policies and support them with greater efforts. Wu Sa, deputy director of the Institute of Economics of the Macroeconomic Research Institute of the NDRC, said that it should be said that we have accumulated more and more experience in promoting consumption this year, whether it is the stock policy or the package of incremental policies. For example, the "two new" policy and the trade-in policy of consumer goods have greatly promoted the growth of consumption. This economic work conference also clearly pointed out that the effective consumption promotion policy should be further strengthened, and the scope should be expanded, the quality should be improved, and more efforts should be made to support it, which will inevitably bring better efforts to the consumption growth of household appliances, various household appliances and so on next year. In addition, this economic work conference also put forward many new policies to promote consumption, which will also affect the improvement of our consumer market next year, so it will have a greater supporting role for the consumer market next year. (CCTV News)Antaike: The global nickel industry surplus is expected to narrow, and the nickel price may decline. The Antaike report shows that the nickel price will rise and fall in the first half of 2024, because the supporting cost below is still there. After the price reached a staged low in late July, the whole price showed a pattern of bottoming out and falling resistance, and the upward and downward momentum was not strong. Returning to the fundamentals itself, oversupply and the staged improvement of downstream consumption have limited room for price rise. On the whole, the price of nickel basically fluctuated within a narrow range this year. The highest nickel in Shanghai was 160,000, and the lowest was 119,000, mainly in the range of 120,000-140,000. Looking forward to the next year, it is expected that the upward and downward momentum of nickel price is not strong, and the main contradiction is still on the supply side. In 2025, it is expected that the price difference between products and inside and outside will further converge, and the price center of gravity will move down. It is expected that the nickel will be in the range of 14,500-18,500 US dollars/ton; The range of Shanghai nickel is 120,000-170,000 yuan/ton.