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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.Huaxin Securities: China Unicom's operating income grew steadily and maintained its "buy" rating. Huaxin Securities Research Report pointed out that since the beginning of this year, China Unicom (600050.SH) has seen steady growth in operating income, rapid improvement in profitability, steady expansion of user scale and continuous consolidation of network foundation, laying a more solid foundation for high-quality development of enterprises. Communication and digital intelligence services are driven by two wheels, injecting vitality into the company's performance. Looking forward to the whole year, the company will adhere to the general tone of steady progress, promote the network to be new, technology to be new and service to be new, strive to achieve the performance goal of steady growth of operating income and double-digit growth of profits throughout the year, take greater steps in high-quality development, and accelerate the construction of a world-class science and technology service enterprise with global competitiveness. With the gradual expansion of user scale and the drive of digital transformation, the company will benefit from the continuous improvement of revenue and profit and maintain the "buy" investment rating.The downtime lasted more than 4 hours, and the failure of ChatGPT and Sora services has been fully repaired. On the afternoon of December 12, Beijing time, OpenAI updated the accident report and said that API, ChatGPT and Sora services have now fully resumed operation. Earlier today, OpenAI confirmed that ChatGPT, its chat robot, experienced a worldwide downtime, and Sora and API were also affected. It is understood that the fault lasted about 4 hours and 10 minutes. OpenAI said that it will conduct a comprehensive root cause analysis of this failure.

Interbank certificates of deposit funds are popular. In the context of the current downward trend of non-bank interbank deposit rates, interbank deposit rates are relatively more attractive, and interbank deposit funds have recently gained popularity. Since December, the 7-day holding fund of AAA index of China Securities Interbank Deposits issued by BlackRock Fund and Agricultural Bank of China Credit Suisse Fund has reached the upper limit of 5 billion yuan, and triggered proportional placement. Both funds are partially confirmed by the principle of "doomsday ratio confirmation", and the doomsday confirmation ratio is 73.36% and 27.02% respectively. In addition, Huatai Bairui Fund and China-Canada Fund also imposed subscription restrictions on their 7-day holding funds of the AAA Index of China Securities Interbank Deposits. From December 11th, the amount of multiple cumulative subscriptions (including conversion and fixed investment) for a single fund account of Huatai Bairui CSI Interbank Deposit Certificate AAA Index 7-day holding fund shall not exceed 100,000 yuan; From December 6th, the subscription amount of a single investor of the 7-day holding fund of China-Canada CSI Interbank Deposit Certificate AAA Index will not exceed 10 million yuan (except for individual investors and public asset management products). (CSI Taurus)Dashengda and Tuopai Shede Group set up investment partnerships. According to the enterprise search APP, Sichuan Fujiang Yingke Investment Partnership (Limited Partnership) was recently established with a capital contribution of 200 million yuan. Its business scope includes: asset management services invested by its own funds; Enterprise management consulting; Information technology consulting service. Enterprise equity penetration shows that the enterprise is jointly held by Dashengda and Sichuan Tuopai Shede Group Co., Ltd..Informed sources: The main reason for the extreme flash crash is Baidu's divestment. Many people familiar with the extreme flash crash believe that the main reason is Baidu's divestment. Baidu insiders told that in October 2024, the company sent a financial team to make preparations for the follow-up investment of 3 billion yuan: "As a result, it was found that there were as many as 7 billion financial holes and it was decided not to continue investing." (Caixin)

For the first time, Nanjing Port docked with container ships of "longest ship scale" and "maximum load". Today (December 12th) morning, the largest container ship that entered the port since the opening of Nanjing Port, Panamanian vessel "Mai Di Hong Wei", successfully docked at Longtan Container Terminal, setting a new "double historical record" for the longest scale and maximum load of container ships entering the port. It is understood that the ship is 208.3 meters long, 29.8 meters wide and 33,715 tons deadweight. This voyage is a direct flight from Europe to Nanjing, which will directly increase the maximum container capacity of incoming ships from the current 1938TEU (standard container) to 2600TEU. The successful berthing indicates that 30,000-ton container ships can enter and leave Nanjing Port normally. (CCTV News) South Korea's finance ministers and Japan's finance ministers held an online meeting, and the two sides reiterated the importance of the partnership between the two countries.