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On the African stock market, on Wednesday (December 11th), South Africa's FTSE /JSE Africa Top 40 tradable index closed down 0.29% to 78,478.82 points. The constituent stock Angra Ashanti Gold rose by 3.06%, ranking second. The South African rand rose 0.57% against the US dollar, reaching a new high of 17.6846 rand.Dollar deposits and wealth management are popular again, and experts such as CITIC Mingming have paid attention to exchange risk. Since December, many bank wealth management subsidiaries have intensively put on shelves dollar wealth management products. According to the statistics of Puyi standard data, as of December 9, there were 1,312 surviving products in US dollar financing, and the surviving scale of US dollar financing reached 281.927 billion yuan, which has doubled from the surviving scale of 140.351 billion yuan at the end of December last year. Although banks have previously lowered the interest rate of dollar deposit products, from the current point of view, the interest rate of some banks' dollar deposits remains above 4%, attracting many customers to buy. Judging from the rate of return, the performance benchmark of some US dollar fixed-income wealth management products currently launched is close to 5%, but the performance benchmark of RMB wealth management products with the same risk level is mostly around 2%.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.

WTI crude oil rose by 2.0% in the day, above the psychological mark of $70/barrel.South Korea's tourism industry has been hit. The mayor of Seoul promised to ensure the safety of tourists. Recently, South Korea's tourism industry has also been hit by the emergency martial law storm, and many hotels and travel agencies have been unsubscribed. Seoul Mayor SE HUN promised to take measures to ensure the safety of tourists on the 11th. The South Korean media reported that although the emergency martial law issued by South Korean President Yin Xiyue lasted only a few hours, the negative impact of this incident on South Korea's tourism industry has already appeared. For security reasons, many tourists canceled the reservations of hotels and travel agencies. In view of the above situation, SE HUN said that the Seoul municipal government will launch a series of measures to create a "safe Seoul" image to attract foreign tourists, and at the same time increase support for the tourism industry to prevent related enterprises from closing down. (CCTV)The Israeli army said that it was still carrying out operations in the buffer zone and Syria to seize weapons and equipment. On the 11th local time, the Israel Defense Forces announced that in recent days, during the operations in the buffer zone in southern Syria, the Israeli army had seized several Syrian tanks, which had not been put into use recently. In addition, the troops also found and seized a number of weapons, including mines, explosives, anti-tank missiles and other military equipment, in a post of a former Syrian government army. The Israeli army said that its four brigade-level combat teams continue to carry out activities in Syria and in the buffer zone between the two countries. In addition, paratroopers and commandos also "carry out defensive actions and eliminate threats" in the buffer zone. (CCTV)

The main force of Nymex US crude oil futures just broke through the $70.00/barrel mark, and the latest price was $70.07/barrel, up 2.16% in the day.German Ministry of Economic Affairs: German government abandons expansion plan of natural gas plant.Shanghai Tin closed up nearly 1%, international copper closed up 0.09%, Shanghai Copper closed down 0.11%, Shanghai Aluminum closed up 0.10%, Shanghai Zinc closed down 0.19%, Shanghai Lead closed down 0.57%, Shanghai Nickel closed up 0.53% and Shanghai Tin closed up 0.99%. Alumina closed up 0.60% at night. Stainless steel night plate closed up 0.54%.