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International oil prices fell on the 12th. As of the close of the day, the light crude oil futures price for January delivery in the New York Mercantile Exchange fell by 27 cents to close at 70.02 US dollars per barrel, a decrease of 0.38%. London Brent crude oil futures for February delivery in 2025 fell 11 cents to close at $73.41 a barrel, a decrease of 0.15%.State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC): Actively expand effective investment, improve investment efficiency, and focus on the layout of a number of major projects with strong traction and long-term benefits. The Party Committee of the State Council SASAC held a special meeting. The meeting stressed that it is necessary to promote central enterprises to improve their ability to cope with cyclical fluctuations, continue to exert efforts in performance appraisal, quality improvement and efficiency improvement, and economic operation, and strive to simultaneously improve efficiency and efficiency indicators, and strive to achieve development with stronger scientific and technological attributes and greater driving role; Actively expand effective investment, improve investment efficiency, focus on "two" and "two new" layout of a number of major projects with strong traction and long-term benefits; We will do a better job in helping small and medium-sized enterprises, promote central enterprises to deepen strategic cooperation in the industrial chain, take the lead in paying off debts owed by private enterprises, and go all out to stabilize employment, supply and flow, so as to better help the national economy continue to pick up. It is necessary to promote the central enterprises to improve the supply capacity of common technologies, further highlight the key points and strengthen the key core technologies, especially in areas with large investment and long cycle; Further highlight the original innovation, explore and create a "policy enclave", strengthen the applied basic research, and deeply root the "root technology"; Further highlight the transformation of achievements, promote the construction of a number of major pilot projects by central enterprises, and constantly open up the "last mile" of the transformation of scientific and technological achievements into real productive forces, so as to better help high-level science and technology stand on its own feet. (SASAC)Xueda Education: The manager of Ziguang Group intends to transfer 5% of the company's shares by agreement. Xueda Education announced that the manager of Ziguang Group and Nanjing Xingnaheyuan Venture Capital Partnership signed the Share Transfer Agreement on December 12, 2024, stipulating that 6.162 million unrestricted shares (accounting for 5.00% of the total share capital of listed companies) held by Ziguang Group Co., Ltd. through the special account for property disposal of bankrupt enterprises will be transferred to.

Countering the price limit of Western countries, Putin extended the oil supply ban. On the 13th, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a presidential decree, announcing the extension of the counter-measures to set price ceilings for Russian oil and oil products until June 30, 2025. Putin signed a presidential decree on December 27, 2022, demanding that the supply of Russian petroleum and petroleum products to foreign legal persons and individuals who directly or indirectly use the price ceiling mechanism in their contracts be prohibited. This presidential decree came into effect on February 1, 2023, and its validity period was extended several times. In early December, 2022, EU member states reached an agreement on setting a price ceiling of $60 per barrel for Russian seaborne oil exports. The Group of Seven and Australia announced that they would implement the same price limit policy as the EU. (Xinhua News Agency)IBM and Illinois will cooperate with universities and industry to establish the National Center for Quantum Algorithms in Chicago.U.S. policy outlook is uncertain. Lagarde lamented that the EU would "ask for it" for political uncertainty. European Central Bank President Lagarde said that the monetary policy decision of policymakers on Thursday was shrouded in the turbulent political situation in Europe. Although Lagarde did not directly mention the collapse of the French and German governments in recent weeks, she pointed out that it is not conducive to the central bank's decision-making to keep the fiscal plan and election results in suspense. At present, policymakers are still paying attention to the impact of Donald Trump's return to power. "We hope that many things will become clear in the coming months," Lagarde told reporters. "If we have discussed anything in the past two days, it is the uncertainty we are facing, whether it is the political situation from some member States or the US policy."

Market news: South Korea's ruling party will hold a meeting on Saturday to decide whether to impeach the president.The President of Belarus approved the national defense plan for 2026-2030. According to the website of the President of Belarus on the 12th, President Lukashenko approved the national defense plan for 2026-2030 at the meeting of the Belarusian Security Council that day. Lukashenko pointed out at the meeting that in recent years, the military and political situation around Belarus has deteriorated, individual countries have escalated the situation around Belarus, and European countries' destructive remarks against Belarus have also increased. He stressed that the Belarusian army poses no threat to any country, is a tool to prevent war, and will repel the enemy when the country is invaded.It is reported that the European Central Bank is considering cutting interest rates by 25 basis points in the next two meetings. According to informed sources, as the inflation rate stabilizes at the target of 2% and economic growth is sluggish, ECB officials plan to cut interest rates by another 25 basis points in January, and there may be another one in March. People familiar with the matter said that as long as the economic development meets current expectations, gradually reducing the borrowing cost is the most appropriate path. They believe that cutting interest rates by 50 basis points at a time in an emergency is still an option, but this move may convey an unexpected sense of urgency. According to people familiar with the matter, officials have not yet made any decision, and every meeting will be evaluated based on all available information, even after March. They stressed that once the situation becomes clearer after Trump takes office in January, the policy inclination of the central bank may change.