Domestic news:
1. Chinese Special Envoy for the Middle East, Zhai Jun, met with U.S. Ambassador to China Burns.
2. Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs: Soybean procurement mainly depends on factors such as supply and demand and market prices.
3. Implementation opinions to support the development of cross-border e-commerce are expected to be issued in the near future. (CSI Gold bull)
4. Pan Gongsheng, Governor of Chinese People's Bank of China, attended the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors' Meeting.
5. Shanghai copper futures hit the 80,000 yuan/ton mark, and now pump more than 1%, a new high since 2006.
6. The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) and other three departments issued the "2024 Work Arrangement for Further Promoting the Large-scale Deployment and Application of IPv6": By the end of 2024, the number of active IPv6 users will reach 800 million.
7. The Ministry of Commerce and other ten departments jointly issued the "Several Policies and Measures on Further Supporting Overseas Institutions to Invest in Domestic Science and Technology Enterprises".
8. The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) issued the "Sixteen Measures to Capital Market and Serve the High-level Development of Technology Enterprises".
9. The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) has formulated and promulgated the Regulations on the Administration of Securities Money Laundering for Publicly Offered Securities Investment Funds, which reduces the commission rate for fund stock transactions and drop the upper limit of the distribution ratio of fund managers' securities trading commissions.
10. Recently, the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) agreed that China Settlement launch the unified inquiry platform for account shares of public sale funds and the official launch of the "Fund E-account" APP.
11. The Shanghai-Shenzhen-Hong Kong exchange reached an Consensus on expanding the scope of Stock Connect ETF. The optimization of the ETF targets mainly includes two aspects: one is to drop ETF the inclusion scale requirements, and the other is to lower the index weight proportion requirements of the ETF.
12. The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) has issued five Capital Market co-operation measures with Hong Kong, the first is to relax the scope of eligible products for stock ETF under Stock Connect. The second is to include REITs in the Stock Connect. The third is to support the inclusion of the RMB coin stock trading counter in Hong Kong Stock Connect. Fourth, optimize the mutual recognition of funds arrangement. Fifth, support mainland industry leaders to list in Hong Kong.
13. Ministry of Commerce: Anti-dumping duties will be imposed on imported polycarbonate originating in Taiwan from April 20.
International News:
1. Iran suddenly exploded, and the United States said Israel hit Iranian facilities. Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said Iran would retaliate with a long wick candle at Israel's nuclear facilities. The Israeli army confirmed the attack but the Israeli media office refused to admit it, and Iranian state media confirmed that Israel had carried out the attack and said that the "sabotage" operation using drones had failed. Iranian officials say there are no plans for immediate retaliation.
2. IMF: OPEC+ is expected to gradually increase oil production starting in July.
3. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken: We can't support a major military operation in Rafah.
4. Wall Street Journal: Biden administration considers more than $1 billion in new weapons for Israel.
5. Fed's Goolsbee: (Asked about potential Intrerest Rate hikes) There's nothing that can't be considered if needed.