On the 12th local time, South Korea's Ministry of National Defense suspended Park An-soo, former martial law commander and army chief of staff.The Hang Seng Index and Hang Seng Science and Technology Index both fell, while Meituan (03690.HK), Xpeng Motors (09868.HK) and JD.COM (09618.HK) all fell more than 2%.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.
12036 Online Student Booking Service Zone, since December 12th, the railway 12306 mobile phone client has opened the student booking service zone, and at the same time, the rules for the sale and inspection of student discount tickets have been optimized and adjusted. Eligible travelers and friends can make an appointment to buy round-trip tickets during Spring Festival travel rush through the zone, which will make it more convenient for student travelers to travel in Spring Festival travel rush. (China Railway)Dong Yuhui Company was granted the license of network culture operation. According to Tianyancha App, on December 10th, Tonghui Peer (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd. added a new license of network culture operation. The content of the license is to apply for the approval of establishing an operating Internet culture unit, and the validity period is from December 10th, 2024 to December 9th, 2027. The licensing authority is Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism. Tonghui Tongxing (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd. was established in December 2023 with a registered capital of RMB 10 million, with Dong Yuhui as the legal representative, director and manager and wholly-owned shares.Musk: Nothing is more beneficial to American health than "ultra-low-cost" diet pills. Musk advocates the use of diet pills to reduce American medical expenses. On December 11th, local time, Musk posted on social platform X that nothing can improve the health, longevity and quality of life of Americans better than very cheap GLP-1 drugs. He pointed out that most medical expenses occur at the end of life, and obesity is often an important factor leading to diseases. Therefore, popularizing GLP-1 drugs can save medical expenses on a long-term scale.
The Hang Seng Index of Hong Kong stocks opened higher by 0.29%, the index of state-owned enterprises rose by 0.42%, and the branch index rose by 0.44%.South Korean President Yin Xiyue: Martial law is an urgent step to save the country. Once again, I apologize to those who are surprised and anxious because of martial law.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.