French President Macron told party leaders that he wanted to appoint a prime minister "within 48 hours".Prime Minister of Mauritius: The previous government falsely reported GDP and public debt.SOMO, Iraq's national oil marketing organization: Iraq set the official selling price of Basra Intermediate crude oil to North America and South America in January 2024 at-1.5 USD per barrel (lower than ASCI price).
Bank for International Settlements: Swap spreads are reflecting investors' concerns about excessive bond supply. The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) pointed out that huge government loans are having an impact on the global interest rate market, saying that investors have demanded higher premiums for buying sovereign bonds. In its quarterly report released on Tuesday, the agency pointed out that the swap spreads of various currencies and maturities have narrowed rapidly in recent months, which are "signs of possible oversupply". As investors are worried about huge debt and deficit expansion, the yields of government bonds in the euro zone and Japan have recently exceeded comparable swap rates. This leads to the so-called swap spread becoming negative. Because national debt is usually regarded as a safer investment than interest rate swap, it is unusual for the swap spread to enter the negative range. According to the Bank for International Settlements, the negative swap spread seems to reflect the pressure faced by investors and intermediaries because they need to absorb more government bonds in the near future. In the United States, the swap spreads for some maturities have been negative for many years.The EU advised member states not to give Britain more access to the energy market. According to a document containing a policy position and distributed to EU member states, Brussels advised EU member states not to allow Britain further access to the EU electricity market. The European Commission stated in the document that its "non-selective" principle towards Britain should also be applied to electricity trading, adding that Britain's decision not to rejoin the single market "limited the possibility of considering other options".He Weina: The capital contribution of Shunrong Enterprising Phase IV increased to 606 million yuan, and Lin Weina announced that the venture capital partnership of Shunrong Enterprising Phase IV, which the company participated in, has completed the change of capital contribution and partner matters, and the capital contribution has increased from 401 million yuan to 606 million yuan. Shunrong Enterprising Phase IV was registered in industrial and commercial registration on March 5, 2024 and filed in asset management association of china on April 2, 2024. After this change, the basic information of industrial and commercial registration of Shunrong Enterprising Phase IV remains unchanged.
The Kremlin says Putin met with the Indian Defense Minister.Kremlin: It is Assad's personal decision to resign as Syrian president.Ren Hongbin, president of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, led a delegation to visit Hong Kong. According to the news of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, from December 8 to 10, Ren Hongbin, president of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, led a delegation to visit Hong Kong, attended the joint meeting of the Mainland-Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce in 2024 and delivered a speech at the symposium of foreign business associations and foreign-funded enterprises in Hong Kong, and prepared to hold the second Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Development Business Conference. During his visit, Ren Hongbin met with Lee Ka Chiu John, Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and Qi Bin, Deputy Director of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. He had extensive exchanges with Lin Jianyue, Chairman of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council, and people from the Hong Kong business community. He had an in-depth exchange of views on deepening economic and trade cooperation between the Mainland and Hong Kong. He went to Jardine Matheson Group, HSBC Group, Swire Group and Cathay Group for investigation, and listened to work reports at the Hong Kong Representative Office of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade and China Patent Agency (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd.