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.Global Times editorial: China is still the main engine of global trade growth. Statistics recently released by official website of the General Administration of Customs show that the total import and export value of China's goods trade in the first 11 months of this year was 39.79 trillion yuan, up 4.9% year-on-year. Among them, exports reached 23.04 trillion yuan, up 6.7%; Imports reached 16.75 trillion yuan, up 2.4%. This is a further development of China's position as the world's largest country in goods trade for seven consecutive years, and its export accounts for 14.2% of the world's total in 2023, which means that the position of China manufacturing with high "cost performance" in the international production and supply chain continues to increase. The publication of this foreign trade "report card" once again shows the strong resilience and vitality of China's economy. (Global Times)Google launched Gemini 2.0, calling it a brand-new AI model for the Agentic era. On December 11th, local time, Google CEO sundar pichai released a note: Today, I am excited to launch the next model of Google for this new Agentic era: launching Gemini 2.0, our most powerful model. With the new development of multimodal-such as local image and audio output-and the use of local tools, it will enable us to build new artificial intelligence agents and bring us closer to our vision of universal assistants.
The Nasdaq Composite Index rose 1.5% to 19,983.35 points in the day.Spanish Foreign Minister: The two-state solution is the solution to the Middle East issue.German Ministry of Economic Affairs: German government abandons expansion plan of natural gas plant.
US natural gas futures rose 6% in the day, and US natural gas futures rose 6% in the day, and are now reported at $3.353 per million British heat.Xinhua News Agency commentator: Writing a new chapter of high-quality development in border areas, the article said that development is the foundation and key to solving all problems in China. To promote high-quality development in border areas, we must firmly grasp the master key of development. He who does not seek the overall situation does not seek a domain. Only by firmly establishing the idea of a national chess game, bringing the development of border areas into the overall situation of Chinese modernization strategy, regional coordinated development strategy and regional major strategy can we promote the high-quality development of border areas in the new development pattern and the national unified market.Russia lowered the tax rate of fertilizer export until the end of 2024.