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About 200 people have been killed by gang attacks on civilians in Haiti. Recently, a large-scale violence against civilians in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, has killed about 200 people, most of whom are elderly people. Witnesses said that the massacre continued.Liaoning Energy: Guo Hongbo, the chairman of the board of directors, resigned due to job change. Liaoning Energy (600758) announced on the evening of December 11th that Guo Hongbo applied to resign as the chairman, director and all the special committees under the board of directors due to job change. After resigning, Guo Hongbo no longer holds any position in the company.Trump said that he chose Andrew Feargus, Commissioner of the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), as the FTC chairman.

Morgan Asset Management: In 2025, there are sufficient reasons to continue to over-allocate US stocks. Sylvia Sheng, global multi-asset strategist of Morgan Asset Management, said that there are sufficient reasons to continue to over-allocate US stocks and increase exposure to small and medium-sized stocks. She pointed out that although the valuation may look high, it is expected that the profit growth of S&P 500 companies will continue. Sheng wrote that it is estimated that in 2025, the contribution of the six giants in the S&P 500 index to the profit growth of the other 494 stocks will be the same, and the profit growth of these six giants is expected to slow down from 40% in 2024 to 22%. In the international market, Morgan Asset Management continues to over-allocate Japanese stocks, and its quantitative model shows that the yield of Japanese stocks is attractive and the bottom-up profitability is strong.Henan: Users with large electricity consumption are encouraged to configure efficient and flexible energy storage systems to realize peak load shedding and valley filling. The General Office of the People's Government of Henan Province issued a notice on the implementation plan of accelerating the integration of source, grid, load and storage in Henan Province, which proposed to actively develop diversified energy storage routes. Encourage the incremental distribution network to build long-term energy storage facilities to alleviate the long-term balance adjustment pressure caused by the mismatch between new energy generation characteristics and load characteristics. Encourage users with large electricity consumption to configure efficient and flexible energy storage systems, realize peak shaving and valley filling, and promote the time-space matching of power generation and electricity consumption. In areas with high reliability requirements for power supply such as transportation and communication, we will encourage the construction of new mobile or fixed energy storage facilities to improve emergency power supply support capabilities.During the year, there were 461 new indices, and the index investment fever continued to climb. On December 10th, in order to meet the investment demand of diversified indices, CSI Index Co., Ltd. officially released five new indices, including CSI 1000 Growth Index, CSI 1000 Value Index, CSI 2000 Growth Index, CSI 2000 Value Index and CSI 1000 Quality Balance Strategy Index. With the "listing" of the above five indexes, the number of newly-issued indexes reached 461 during the year, covering categories such as strategy, style, scale, industry, theme and other fixed-income indexes; Related index asset classes include stocks, fixed income, funds and futures. At the same time, the secondary market, this year, the heat of indexed investment is also high. Looking forward to the future, with the continuous vigorous growth of market demand and unabated heat, and the precise guidance and strong support from the supervisory level, the indexed investment ecology will become more and more perfect. (Securities Daily)

The second meeting of the Global Foreign Exchange Market Committee in 2024 was successfully held. From December 5 to December 6, 2024, the second meeting of the Global Foreign Exchange Committee (GFXC) in 2024 was held online. The meeting discussed the promotion and implementation of global standards, the second round of three-year review of global standards, the operation of foreign exchange market and related market hot issues. Representatives from China Foreign Exchange Market Steering Committee (CFXC) attended the meeting. This meeting discussed the final results of the second round of three-year review of global standards. The Working Group on Foreign Exchange Settlement Risk and the Working Group on Foreign Exchange Data respectively introduced the final revision suggestions of the relevant provisions of the global standards, and how the Working Group continuously improved according to the public comments and feedback from the local foreign exchange market committees and in October 2024. The revision of the Global Standards aims to strengthen the relevant principles of foreign exchange settlement risk management and enhance the transparency of specific types of foreign exchange transactions and the use of customer-generated data on electronic trading platforms. GFXC members strongly support this.Kazakhstan said that Russia's Druzhba oil pipeline was not damaged by Ukraine's overnight strike.Sources: The attack on the Russian oil depot did not affect the oil transportation to Europe via Ukraine. Ukrainian industrial sources said on Wednesday that the Ukrainian attack on an oil depot in the Bryansk region of Russia at night did not affect the oil transportation to Europe via Ukraine. The Ukrainian military said on Wednesday that the warehouse was part of the "Friendship" oil export pipeline and a "fire" broke out after the air raid. The source said: "This attack has nothing to do with oil transportation because it is a facility to ensure the supply of diesel and petroleum products. Everything is going according to plan. "