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The Baltic dry bulk freight index fell 0.38% to 1051 points.Donghua Technology: Inner Mongolia New Materials, a holding subsidiary, signed a product sales contract with Yulin Chemical of Shaanxi Coal Group. Donghua Technology announced that China National Chemical New Materials Co., Ltd., a holding subsidiary, plans to sign a Product Sales Contract with Yulin Chemical Co., Ltd. of Shaanxi Coal Group, stipulating that Yulin Chemical will sell ethylene glycol and by-products produced by Inner Mongolia New Materials. The contract is from October 20, 2024 to December 31, 2025. Product prices are divided into temporary pricing and settlement price, and are priced according to the principle of marketization. From the beginning of 2024 to the disclosure date, the Company had related transactions with Yulin Chemical and its concerted parties, mainly to provide engineering services to Yulin Chemical and its concerted parties, with the related transactions amounting to 438 million yuan.Bayrou was appointed as the new Prime Minister of France. French public opinion regards him as a staunch political ally of Macron. The Elysee Palace, the French presidential palace, announced on the 13th that President Macron appointed francois bayrou, chairman of the Democratic Movement Party, as the new Prime Minister on the same day, replacing Banier, who resigned after being impeached by the National Assembly. According to French media reports, Macron had a telephone conversation with Bayrou on the evening of 12th, and on the morning of 13th, Macron met Bayrou in the presidential palace and talked again. Macron subsequently announced the appointment decision. Bayrou became the fourth French prime minister this year. Beru founded the Democratic Movement Party, a centrist party, in 2007, and has served as its chairman ever since. In 2017, Bayrou announced that he would give up running for the French president, and formed an alliance with Macron, one of the popular candidates in the presidential election at that time and the chairman of the "Forward" movement, to fully support Macron's presidential election. In 2022, in the process of Macron's re-election, Bayrou led the Democratic Movement Party to continue to form an alliance with the ruling party. French public opinion regards Bayrou as a staunch political ally of Macron. (Xinhua News Agency)

South Korean courts issued arrest warrants for police chief Zhao Zhihao and Seoul police chief Jin Feng Yong. On December 13th, local time, Seoul Central District Court issued arrest warrants for police chief Zhao Zhihao and Seoul police chief Jin Feng Yong. (CCTV News)Governor of Poland's central bank: Poland will continue to achieve the CPI target.Ningbo Shipping Exchange: The freight rate of the United States and the West increased sharply, and the comprehensive index stopped falling and rose. This week, the Ningbo Export Container Freight Index (NCFI) of the Maritime Silk Road Index released by Ningbo Shipping Exchange closed at 1722.8 points, up 4.8% from last week. Among the 21 routes, the freight index of 7 routes rose and that of 14 routes fell. Among the major ports along the "Maritime Silk Road", the freight index of 4 ports rose and that of 12 ports fell. The overall shipment of the market has increased, liner companies have reduced their route capacity, and at the same time, they have adjusted the port-calling order of some routes in the west of the United States, and the freight rate has increased more than that in the east of the United States. The freight index of the US-East route was 1808.1 points, up 10.0% from last week. The freight index of the US-West route was 2092.1 points, up 43.5% from last week.

Bei Ya raised the Amazon target price from $220.00 to $260.00.Weilai announced that the number of power exchanges had exceeded 60 million times. Weilai issued a document saying that as of 21:06:08 on December 13th, 2024, Weilai had changed power more than 60 million times! Thank you for your support and trust in Weilai.Huitai Medical: Using raised funds and self-owned funds to increase capital of 700 million yuan to wholly-owned subsidiaries. Huitai Medical announced that the company held the 20th meeting of the second board of directors and the 17th meeting of the second board of supervisors on December 12, 2024, and reviewed and approved the Proposal on Using raised funds and self-owned funds to increase capital to wholly-owned subsidiaries. The company agreed to increase its capital by 700 million yuan to Shanghai Hongtong Industrial Co., Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary, of which 438 million yuan of interest-bearing loans provided to Shanghai Hongtong with raised funds were converted into capital increase, and 262 million yuan was increased with its own funds. After the capital increase is completed, the registered capital of Shanghai Hongtong will increase from RMB 18,489,300 to RMB 26,548,200, and it will remain a wholly-owned subsidiary of the company.