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Central Bank: On December 18th, 20 billion yuan of central bank bills will be issued. On December 18th, the People's Bank of China will issue the 12th issue of central bank bills in 2024 through the CMU bond bidding platform of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority. The 12th central bank bill has a maturity of 6 months (182 days), and is a fixed-rate interest-bearing bond, with a circulation of RMB 20 billion. The value date is December 20, 2024, and the maturity date is June 20, 2025, and the maturity date will be postponed in case of a holiday.USD/JPY fell 0.29% to 152.02.Xinwei International (00058.HK) once rose by 90% when it resumed trading, but now the increase has narrowed to less than 50%.

Australia's employment continued to grow, and the unemployment rate unexpectedly dropped. Australia's unemployment rate unexpectedly dropped in November, and employment continued to grow, highlighting the resilience of the labor market to rising interest rates and prompting traders to reduce their bets on interest rate cuts in February. According to data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics on Thursday, the unemployment rate dropped from 4.1% in October to 3.9%, far below the 4.2% expected by economists. The number of employed people has increased by 35,600, and it is entirely driven by full-time jobs. It is expected to increase by 25,000. The Australian dollar rose to 0.6411 against the US dollar, and the yield of policy-sensitive 3-year Australian government bonds rose by 5 basis points. The Australian stock market retreated all gains.Agency: It is expected that the shipment of folding smartphones will continue to decline in 2025. According to the latest report of Counterpoint Research, the year-on-year shipment of folding smartphone displays declined for the first time in the third quarter of 2024, and it is expected that the shipment in 2025 will also continue to decline. The agency expects Apple to enter the market in the second half of 2026. In addition, more multi-fold products are expected to be launched in 2026, and the first slidable notebook computer is expected to be available in 2025.The three major stock indexes opened lower, with the Shanghai Composite Index down 0.01%, the Shenzhen Component Index down 0.02% and the Growth Enterprise Market down 0.19%.

OpenAI responded to ChatGPT downtime. On December 12th, OpenAI confirmed that ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence chat robot, was currently experiencing a worldwide downtime, which made users unable to use it. This problem also affects the integration function between iOS 18.2 and Siri. According to OpenAI, the company has identified the cause of the outage and is actively repairing it. Although their goal is to restore the function of ChatGPT as soon as possible, they have not provided a specific recovery schedule.According to sources, Hamas handed over a list of hostages to be released, including Americans.Aoyuan Group and others were forced to execute 200 million yuan. According to the legal litigation information of Tianyue, recently, Aoyuan Group Co., Ltd. and Zhuhai Aoyuan Huisheng Real Estate Co., Ltd. added one piece of information of the person to be executed, and the execution target was more than 203 million yuan. The enforcement court was Xiangzhou District People's Court of Zhuhai City. Tianyan risk information shows that Aoyuan Group Co., Ltd. has more than 150 pieces of information about executed persons, and the total amount of execution exceeds 14.6 billion yuan. In addition, the company also has a number of consumption restriction orders, the person who has been executed for dishonesty (Lao Lai) and the final case information.