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On January 13, in response to the U.S. State Departments demand on January 12 that U.S. citizens immediately leave Iran, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning stated at a regular press conference that China hopes and supports Iran in maintaining national stability. "We consistently oppose interference in other countries internal affairs and oppose the use or threat of force in international relations. We hope all parties will do more to promote peace and stability in the Middle East," Mao Ning said. "We are closely monitoring the developments in Iran, and we will take all necessary measures to protect the safety of Chinese citizens."The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and four other departments recently jointly issued a notice on regulating the posting of recruitment information on online platforms, further standardizing the online recruitment order. The notice requires strengthened supervision of online recruitment service licenses; for-profit human resources service agencies posting recruitment information or online platforms providing recruitment information posting services to employers must obtain a human resources service license in accordance with the law. Online platforms must fulfill their primary responsibility, strengthen account registration management, verify the real identity information of applicants, classify and verify the qualifications of certified accounts, set special labels, and clearly display qualifications and certification information on the account homepage. The notice clarifies that online platforms must standardize the format of recruitment information, ensuring that posted recruitment information is truthful and legal, and strictly prohibiting the illegal diversion of traffic under the guise of recruitment information. It also emphasizes strengthening the regulation of online behavior of recruitment service accounts, enhancing dynamic monitoring of recruitment information postings, and promptly detecting and handling illegal and irregular activities.On January 13th, Beike issued an internal notice outlining self-discipline requirements across its entire platform, reiterating its neutral market perspective, and requiring all employees and participants to strictly adhere to the companys values and practice a neutral market approach, strictly following the "Three Musts and Six Prohibitions." Internally, violations will be severely punished. The "Three Musts" focus on service standards, including providing honest and professional services to help stabilize the market, ensuring the authenticity of property listings and fulfilling contractual obligations, and providing comprehensive and objective information to assist users in making rational decisions. The "Six Prohibitions" cover strictly prohibiting subjective speculation and pessimistic pronouncements about the market, strictly prohibiting the distorted interpretation of relevant national policies, and prohibiting the dissemination of false information.On January 13th, the Jiangsu Provincial Government issued the "Jiangsu Province Artificial Intelligence+ Action Plan." The plan outlines the creation of high-quality datasets. It coordinates the construction and promotion of high-quality datasets across industries, and releases a series of initiatives requiring developers to take on challenges. The plan also emphasizes increasing the supply of data resources, promoting the open sharing and trading of high-quality datasets and corpora, strengthening data intellectual property protection, exploring data property rights systems adapted to the development of artificial intelligence, and achieving data cost compensation and revenue distribution based on value contribution. It supports eligible regions in issuing "corpus vouchers."Chairman of the Japan Business Federation (Keidanren): The yens depreciation has gone too far, and I believe it is necessary to allow the yen to appreciate again.

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2026/01/13
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  • 15:16:40

    On January 13, in response to the U.S. State Department's demand on January 12 that U.S. citizens immediately leave Iran, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning stated at a regular press conference that China hopes and supports Iran in maintaining national stability. "We consistently oppose interference in other countries' internal affairs and oppose the use or threat of force in international relations. We hope all parties will do more to promote peace and stability in the Middle East," Mao Ning said. "We are closely monitoring the developments in Iran, and we will take all necessary measures to protect the safety of Chinese citizens."

  • 15:16:30

    The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and four other departments recently jointly issued a notice on regulating the posting of recruitment information on online platforms, further standardizing the online recruitment order. The notice requires strengthened supervision of online recruitment service licenses; for-profit human resources service agencies posting recruitment information or online platforms providing recruitment information posting services to employers must obtain a human resources service license in accordance with the law. Online platforms must fulfill their primary responsibility, strengthen account registration management, verify the real identity information of applicants, classify and verify the qualifications of certified accounts, set special labels, and clearly display qualifications and certification information on the account homepage. The notice clarifies that online platforms must standardize the format of recruitment information, ensuring that posted recruitment information is truthful and legal, and strictly prohibiting the illegal diversion of traffic under the guise of recruitment information. It also emphasizes strengthening the regulation of online behavior of recruitment service accounts, enhancing dynamic monitoring of recruitment information postings, and promptly detecting and handling illegal and irregular activities.

  • 15:15:11

    On January 13th, Beike issued an internal notice outlining self-discipline requirements across its entire platform, reiterating its neutral market perspective, and requiring all employees and participants to strictly adhere to the company's values and practice a neutral market approach, strictly following the "Three Musts and Six Prohibitions." Internally, violations will be severely punished. The "Three Musts" focus on service standards, including providing honest and professional services to help stabilize the market, ensuring the authenticity of property listings and fulfilling contractual obligations, and providing comprehensive and objective information to assist users in making rational decisions. The "Six Prohibitions" cover strictly prohibiting subjective speculation and pessimistic pronouncements about the market, strictly prohibiting the distorted interpretation of relevant national policies, and prohibiting the dissemination of false information.

  • 15:12:35

    On January 13th, the Jiangsu Provincial Government issued the "Jiangsu Province 'Artificial Intelligence+' Action Plan." The plan outlines the creation of high-quality datasets. It coordinates the construction and promotion of high-quality datasets across industries, and releases a series of initiatives requiring developers to take on challenges. The plan also emphasizes increasing the supply of data resources, promoting the open sharing and trading of high-quality datasets and corpora, strengthening data intellectual property protection, exploring data property rights systems adapted to the development of artificial intelligence, and achieving data cost compensation and revenue distribution based on value contribution. It supports eligible regions in issuing "corpus vouchers."

  • 15:11:37

    Chairman of the Japan Business Federation (Keidanren): The yen's depreciation has gone too far, and I believe it is necessary to allow the yen to appreciate again.

  • 15:11:16

    German Chancellor Merz: We have been concerned for some time now, not just in recent days or weeks, about how powerful the political influence is becoming on central banks around the world.

  • 15:10:55

    German Chancellor Merz: Germany has always believed that the independence of the central bank is of paramount importance.

  • 15:09:13

    On January 13th, Christoph Rieger, Head of Interest Rates and Credit Research at Commerzbank, noted in a report that while the threat to the Federal Reserve's independence certainly exists, Tuesday's US CPI data may alleviate market concerns about the Fed being forced to cut interest rates irrationally. He stated, "Although the data may still be distorted by the government shutdown, the sharp weakening of inflationary pressures in October and November is unlikely to reverse." Rieger believes that slowing rent growth is becoming a significant downward factor for core inflation.

  • 15:07:32

    On January 13th, the Jiangsu Provincial Government issued a notice regarding the "Artificial Intelligence+" Action Plan for Jiangsu Province, which mentions expanding new scenarios for commercial and service consumption. It encourages e-commerce companies to utilize artificial intelligence technology to optimize supply chains, achieve precise customer profiling, empower the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry, and promote intelligent design and customized production. It also emphasizes strengthening cooperation with leading e-commerce platforms to promote models such as digital human shopping guides, robot customer service, targeted marketing, and intelligent quality inspection, helping enterprises reduce costs and increase efficiency. Furthermore, it actively explores new business models of "artificial intelligence + consumption," promotes the innovative development of small and medium-sized platforms applying artificial intelligence technology, and expands new service consumption scenarios such as experiential consumption, personalized consumption, and cognitive and emotional consumption. Finally, it explores the construction of a smart service platform for convenient living within a 15-minute radius.

  • 15:07:07

    On January 13th, the Shanghai Futures Exchange (SHFE) reported the following data on energy and chemical warehouse receipts and changes: 1. Pulp futures warehouse receipts: 137,134 tons, an increase of 6,771 tons compared to the previous trading day; 2. Pulp futures mill warehouse receipts: 12,000 tons, unchanged compared to the previous trading day; 3. Offset paper futures warehouse receipts: 0 tons, unchanged compared to the previous trading day; 4. Offset paper futures mill warehouse receipts: 2,840 tons, an increase of 800 tons compared to the previous trading day; 5. Fuel oil futures warehouse receipts: 0 tons, unchanged compared to the previous trading day. 6. Warehouse receipts for petroleum asphalt futures totaled 15,840 tons, a decrease of 320 tons from the previous trading day; 7. Factory warehouse receipts for petroleum asphalt futures totaled 24,810 tons, an increase of 8,150 tons from the previous trading day; 8. Warehouse receipts for medium-sulfur crude oil futures totaled 3,464,000 barrels, unchanged from the previous trading day; 9. Warehouse receipts for low-sulfur fuel oil futures totaled 18,280 tons, a decrease of 4,480 tons from the previous trading day; 10. Factory warehouse receipts for low-sulfur fuel oil futures totaled 0 tons, unchanged from the previous trading day.

  • 15:05:50

    The chart shows that at 23:00 Beijing time on January 13, there will be large foreign exchange options contracts for EUR/USD, AUD/USD, and NZD/USD expiring, including two contracts with strike prices exceeding 1 billion. Please manage your risks.

  • 15:05:17

    On January 13th, the Jiangsu Provincial Government issued a notice regarding the "Artificial Intelligence+" Action Plan for Jiangsu Province, which mentions accelerating the application of autonomous driving in various industries. This includes accelerating the research and deployment of large-scale models in assisted driving and autonomous driving systems, constructing a data-driven algorithm system across the entire process, and promoting the development of intelligent cockpits adapted to high-level autonomous driving. The plan also explores the construction of an innovation platform for autonomous driving spatial intelligence and world models. Furthermore, it promotes pilot applications of "vehicle-road-cloud integration" for intelligent connected vehicles, constructs intelligent roadside infrastructure, and achieves networked recognition of all traffic facilities and autonomous driving mode operation within designated areas.

  • 15:01:21

    According to Futures News on January 13, as of 15:00 Beijing time, spot platinum fell 1.28% and spot palladium fell 3.19%.

  • 14:55:43

    The SC crude oil futures contract rose 2.00% intraday, currently trading at 444.50 yuan per barrel.

  • 14:33:32

    Hong Kong-listed tech stocks weakened in the afternoon, with SenseTime (00020.HK) falling more than 4%, Kuaishou (01024.HK) falling more than 3%, and Xiaomi Group (01810.HK), Baidu (09888.HK) and others following suit.

  • 14:28:12

    On January 13th, JPMorgan Chase issued a report stating that WuXi AppTec (02359.HK) recently issued a profit warning, expecting sales to increase by 16% year-on-year to RMB 45.5 billion in 2025, exceeding the bank's forecast by 2%; adjusted net profit is expected to increase by 41% year-on-year to RMB 15 billion, 4% higher than the bank's forecast. The bank believes that the better-than-expected performance is mainly driven by continuous capacity and production capacity improvement, production process optimization, and improved operational efficiency; the market is expected to react positively to the profit warning. In addition, although the profit warning did not provide specific details on gross profit margin or operating expenses, the bank believes that WuXi AppTec's adjusted net profit margin expansion to 33% is another positive surprise; a target price of HKD 142 and an "overweight" rating are now given.

  • 14:24:45

    January 13th Futures News: 1. WTI crude oil futures trading volume was 1,065,300 lots, a decrease of 158,978 lots from the previous trading day. Open interest was 1,998,254 lots, an increase of 2,157 lots from the previous trading day. 2. Brent crude oil futures trading volume was 204,328 lots, a decrease of 10,772 lots from the previous trading day. Open interest was 230,708 lots, an increase of 2,585 lots from the previous trading day. 3. Natural gas futures trading volume was 876,995 lots, a decrease of 207,686 lots from the previous trading day. Open interest was 1,643,126 lots, a decrease of 36,978 lots from the previous trading day.

  • 14:24:45

    Kuwait set its official selling price for its extra-light crude oil to Asia in February at a discount of $1.60 per barrel to the average price in Oman/Dubai.

  • 14:22:59

    HSBC raises its target price for General Motors (GM.N) from $48 to $75.

  • 14:16:32

    On January 13th, Morgan Stanley issued a research report stating that WuXi AppTec (02359.HK) is projected to see revenue increase by 15.8% year-on-year to RMB 45.5 billion in 2025, with profit rising by 102.7% to RMB 19.2 billion. Adjusted non-IFRS profit is expected to increase by 41.3% to RMB 15 billion. Revenue from continuing operations is expected to increase by 21.4% year-on-year, exceeding management's forecast of 17% to 18%, primarily driven by late-stage R&D and commercialization contracts in the chemical business, and strong performance in the TIDES business. Meanwhile, the company recognized two significant one-off gains during the year: a disposal gain of approximately RMB 4.2 billion from the reduction of its stake in WuXi Consortium, and a gain of approximately RMB 1.4 billion from the sale of its testing business. The bank maintains its top pick for WuXi AppTec in 2026.

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