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Israel's Mossad Director held talks with Qatar's Prime Minister on promoting the ceasefire negotiations in Gaza. Two Israeli sources revealed that Israel's Intelligence and Secret Service (Mossad) Director Barnea visited Doha, Qatar, on the 11th and held talks with Qatar's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammad. The two sides focused on promoting the ceasefire negotiations in Gaza.The deposit interest rate is declining, and the interbank deposit receipt fund is popular. Under the background of the current downward trend of non-bank interbank deposit interest rate, the interbank deposit receipt rate is relatively more attractive, and the interbank deposit receipt fund has recently gained the popularity of funds. On December 12, Hongta laterite fund announced that the company held a meeting of fund share holders of the 7-day holding fund of Hongta laterite CSI interbank deposit certificate AAA index by means of communication to review the proposal on matters related to the continuous operation of the fund. Previously, the fund had a net asset value of less than 50 million yuan for 60 consecutive working days. However, the fund shares voted at the fund share holders' meeting were less than half of the total fund shares on the equity registration date, and failed to meet the effective meeting conditions. On December 5th, the 7-day holding period of the AAA index of China National Securities Interbank Deposit Certificate also announced the convening of the holders' meeting on the continuous operation of the fund, and the fund manager proposed to continue to operate the fund. (CSI Taurus)Renhe Pharmaceutical invested in Jiangxi to establish a health industry company. According to the enterprise search APP, Jiangxi Renhe Jiuniuai Health Industry Co., Ltd. was recently established, with Xin Li as the legal representative and a registered capital of 1 million yuan. Its business scope includes: food Internet sales, health food production, health care services (non-medical), health consulting services, sales of first-class medical devices, sales of agricultural and sideline products, etc. Enterprise survey shows that the company is jointly held by Renhe Pharmaceutical and Xin Li.

Another member of South Korea's ruling party said he would vote to impeach President Yoon.Home improvement stocks continued to rise, with daily limit of Wole Home, Meike Home, Yazhen Home, Mengtian Home, Jinpai Home and Double Gun Technology, while Dinggu Set rose by over 10%, while Shangpin home delivery, Fun Sleep Technology and Wrigley Home rose by over 5%.Pakistan KSE-100 Index rose 2% to 113,268.80.

This year, the amount of M&A transactions involving listed companies in Hong Kong has reached 38 billion US dollars, which has triggered a rare bidding war. This year is expected to be the busiest year for M&A transactions involving listed companies in Hong Kong in the past decade, with industries ranging from skin care products to logistics real estate, and the bidding war has also warmed up. It is reported that China Mobile's bid for Hongkong Broadband may face competition from American private equity firm I Squared Capital. Bi Hua, chairman of Fenmei Packaging, is negotiating with Qihao Capital to jointly counter the privatization offer of Shandong Xinjufeng. The data shows that the scale of M&A transactions for listed companies in Hong Kong has reached $38 billion this year, the highest level since 2017, including the merger of Guotai Junan Securities and Haitong Securities, a smaller competitor, to become the largest brokerage firm in China.The 1800th train of "Yangtze River Train" started this year and completed the annual operation task 20 days ahead of schedule. On December 11th, on the first anniversary of normal operation, the 1799th and 1800th trains of "Yangtze River Train" started from Xianglushan Station in Wuhan and Chengxiang Station in Chengdu respectively, and completed the annual operation task 20 days ahead of schedule. "Yangtze River Train" is a hot-metal combined transport train in Sichuan to solve the "dam-breaking difficulty" of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River and improve the transportation capacity of the golden waterway of the Yangtze River. It was launched on December 10, 2023 and reached the first thousand-train target after eight months of operation. Luo Sheng, director of the transportation marketing department of Shudao Railway Operation Group and general manager of Shudao Banlie Branch, said that "Changjiang Banlie" is the fastest-growing train product in Sichuan with the shortest time for over 1,000 trains.Daiwa Capital Market raised the target price of Tesla from $285 to $420.