Hang Seng Index futures closed down 0.28% at 19,965 points, with a low water level of 6 points.Brazilian President Lula is still in need of special medical care when his condition improves and he can walk normally. On December 13th, local time, according to the latest announcement issued by the Syrian-Lebanese Hospital in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Brazilian President Lula is now in better condition. Although he is still hospitalized and receiving special medical care, his mind is clear and he can clearly identify his direction. It is reported that on the evening of the 12th, the hospital removed the intracranial drainage tube placed after operation for Lula. Now Lula has returned to a normal diet, and the hospital will continue to monitor and observe his health. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was sent to hospital for headache on the evening of 9th local time, and was later diagnosed as intracranial hemorrhage by doctors. He underwent surgery at the Syrian-Lebanese Hospital in Sã o Paulo, and underwent surgery again on the morning of 12th to reduce the risk of future head hemorrhage.International precious metal futures generally closed down, COMEX gold futures fell 1.61% to US$ 2,665.9 per ounce, and COMEX silver futures fell 1.96% to US$ 31 per ounce.
Newman Mining fell 3%, testing a 61.8% Fibonacci retracement near $41.Surveillance camera startup Verkada negotiated financing at a valuation of $4.5 billion.Fitch: It is estimated that the global air passenger traffic will drop from a healthy level to a medium level in 2024, but it will still maintain strong growth.
The financial difficulties led to the sell-off of the real, and the Brazilian central bank intervened, and the Brazilian central bank intervened in the foreign exchange market, which led to the sell-off of the real due to the deterioration of the country's financial prospects. Before the central bank issued the intervention statement, the real hovered near the intraday low, and the decline quickly narrowed after the statement was issued. At 14:52 Sao Paulo time (1:52 am Beijing time), the real fell by only 0.4% against the US dollar, making it no longer the worst emerging market currency on Friday.Coca-Cola Brazil invested R $550 million (US$ 91 million) to expand the concentrated solution plant in Amazon.A number of A-share companies "lead wars for their children" and state-owned institutions have become important buyers. Recently, subsidiaries of a number of listed companies in the A-share market have launched capital increase and share expansion in order to obtain more financial support. According to the incomplete statistics of the Securities Times reporter, since November alone, more than 10 listed companies have issued relevant announcements on the introduction of strategic investors by subsidiaries, most of which are distributed in power equipment, pharmaceutical biology, basic chemical industry and other industries. It is worth noting that many of the strategic investors introduced by the subsidiaries of the above-mentioned enterprises are state-owned investment institutions. For this wave of "war-inducing" trend, people in the industry interviewed by reporters believe that due to the influence of relevant policies, listed companies have great resistance to spin-off and listing, which is an important reason for their subsidiaries to increase their capital and shares. Most of the targets that state-owned investment institutions choose to buy shares are new businesses or core businesses of hard-tech enterprises, which can not only ensure the safety of state-owned funds, but also obtain high premium returns in future IPO opportunities. (Securities Times)