Spanish Foreign Minister: Assad is no longer in Syria, and the dictatorship has ended, which is a good thing.The US Treasury auctioned four-month treasury bonds, and the winning bid rate was 4.240% (4.315% on December 4th), and the bid multiple was 2.83 (3.10 in the previous auction).The Polish minister said that Poland hopes that more countries will participate in Baltic policing, the EU must spend at least 100 billion euros on national defense, and the conditions for sending Polish MIG -29 fighters to Ukraine have not been met.
German Ministry of Economic Affairs: German government abandons expansion plan of natural gas plant.A school in Germany was attacked by irritant gas, which injured 40 people. On December 11th, local time, a school in northern Munich, Germany was attacked by irritant gas, which injured 40 people, most of whom were students. About a dozen children and teenagers with eyes and respiratory tract irritation were rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment. The police are currently looking for the perpetrators. (CCTV)Global Times editorial: China is still the main engine of global trade growth. Statistics recently released by official website of the General Administration of Customs show that the total import and export value of China's goods trade in the first 11 months of this year was 39.79 trillion yuan, up 4.9% year-on-year. Among them, exports reached 23.04 trillion yuan, up 6.7%; Imports reached 16.75 trillion yuan, up 2.4%. This is a further development of China's position as the world's largest country in goods trade for seven consecutive years, and its export accounts for 14.2% of the world's total in 2023, which means that the position of China manufacturing with high "cost performance" in the international production and supply chain continues to increase. The publication of this foreign trade "report card" once again shows the strong resilience and vitality of China's economy. (Global Times)
Spot gold stood at $2,720 per ounce, up 0.98% in the day.Musk became the first person in the world with a net worth of more than 400 billion dollars, and Musk became the first person with a net worth of 400 billion dollars, setting a new milestone for the richest man in the world. Recently, the catalyst was SpaceX's internal stock sale transaction, and Musk's net asset value increased by about 50 billion US dollars to 439.2 billion US dollars. At the end of 2022, Musk's net worth once dropped by more than 200 billion US dollars, but after Trump won the election last month, as his biggest financier, Musk's value immediately soared. On Wednesday, SpaceX and its investors agreed to buy shares worth $1.25 billion from employees and other company insiders. The deal valued the private space exploration company at about $350 billion, making SpaceX the most valuable private start-up in the world.The US media said that the Biden administration is considering imposing new sanctions on Russian oil trade. Informed sources: The details have yet to be finalized. The Bloomberg website reported on the 10th local time that the Biden administration is considering imposing new sanctions on Russian oil trade before Trump returns to the White House, and the specific details have yet to be finalized. The article said that the Biden administration is weighing new and stricter sanctions against Russia's lucrative oil trade, trying to increase pressure on the Kremlin before Trump returns to the White House. According to an insider who asked not to be named, the details of possible new measures are still being worked out, but Biden's team is considering imposing restrictions on some Russian oil exports. Up to now, the Russian side has not responded. (CCTV)