US Secretary of State Blinken visited Baghdad to discuss the Syrian issue with Iraqi Prime Minister. On December 13th, local time, US Secretary of State Blinken visited the Iraqi capital Baghdad and held talks with Iraqi Prime Minister Al-Sudani on the Syrian issue. The State Council has not announced the itinerary of Blinken's visit before.Russia is negotiating with the new Syrian authorities to maintain its two military bases in Syria.Market News: The daily active users of cryptocurrency reached a record high of 18.7 million in December, a significant increase compared with 7.7 million at the beginning of 2024.
Google spokesperson: Google intends to appeal the decision of the Turkish Competition Authority. Earlier, the Turkish antitrust agency fined Google $75 million for advertising technology investigation.US lawmakers say it is too early to lift sanctions against Syria, and US Republican and Democratic senators say it is too early to consider lifting sanctions against Syria after President Assad steps down, which shows that Washington is unlikely to change its policy in the short term.Alumina broke away from last week's record high, and panic buying related to Guinea subsided. LME copper futures closed down 39 US dollars to 9052 US dollars/ton. LME aluminum closed up $6 to $2,605/ton. LME zinc futures closed up $20 to $3,096/ton. LME lead closed up $4 to $2010/ton. LME nickel futures closed down $306 to $15,862/ton. LME tin closed down $437 to $29,097/ton. LME cobalt was flat at $24,300/ton.
Russia is negotiating with the new Syrian authorities to maintain its two military bases in Syria.Goldman Sachs: Preliminary data from EPFR show that the allocation of global mutual funds to China stocks declined in November. On the asset-weighted basis, active mutual funds still underallocate China stocks by 290 basis points. This week, China stock funds ushered in a strong inflow of $5.6 billion, breaking the previous trend of outflow for seven consecutive weeks.Bank of America Securities lowered the target price of Thermo Fisher Scientific Shier Technology from $675.00 to $660.00.