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.The attack on the headquarters of the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation in Afghanistan killed four people. An official from the Ministry of Interior of the Afghan Interim Government said on the 11th that the suicide attack at the headquarters of the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation that day killed four people and seriously injured four others. Mufti Abdul Martin Carney, spokesman of the Interior Ministry of the Afghan interim government, issued a statement on the 11th, confirming that Khalil Rahman Haqqani, Acting Minister of Refugee and Repatriation Affairs, was killed in the attack. Haqqani is one of the leading figures of the Taliban in Afghanistan, and also the uncle of sirajuddin Haqqani, Acting Minister of the Interior of the Afghan Interim Government. (Xinhua News Agency)German Ministry of Economic Affairs: German government abandons expansion plan of natural gas plant.
Kuwait priced the oil sold to Asia in January at the parity level with Oman/Dubai.The Israeli army said that it was still carrying out operations in the buffer zone and Syria to seize weapons and equipment. On the 11th local time, the Israel Defense Forces announced that in recent days, during the operations in the buffer zone in southern Syria, the Israeli army had seized several Syrian tanks, which had not been put into use recently. In addition, the troops also found and seized a number of weapons, including mines, explosives, anti-tank missiles and other military equipment, in a post of a former Syrian government army. The Israeli army said that its four brigade-level combat teams continue to carry out activities in Syria and in the buffer zone between the two countries. In addition, paratroopers and commandos also "carry out defensive actions and eliminate threats" in the buffer zone. (CCTV)Spanish Foreign Minister: Assad is no longer in Syria, and the dictatorship has ended, which is a good thing.
WTI crude oil increased to 2% in the day and is now reported at 69.55 USD/barrel; Brent crude oil is now up 1.67%.Apple released iOS 18.2: Siri integrated ChatGPT. After more than six weeks of testing, Apple announced that iOS 18.2, iPadOS 18.2 and macOS Sequoia 15.2 were officially launched. It is reported that iOS 18.2 allows users to create custom Genmoji expressions, built-in application Playground that can generate images, and intelligent voice assistant Siri that integrates ChatGPT. According to public reports, at WWDC2024, Apple announced a cooperation with OpenAI, and Siri will integrate ChatGPT.Mackler M, Governor of the Bank of Canada: (Regarding the potential tariff policy) We can't make policies based on what may happen. If the (US) tariffs are implemented as promised, it will cause serious damage to the Canadian economy.