Daihatsu Motor spokesperson: Compensation will be provided to second- and third-tier suppliers through first-tier suppliers.

Market news: Vietnam’s trade surplus in 2023 is expected to be approximately US$26 billion.

Toyota: Ready to support Daihatsu Motor’s compensation if necessary.

The central parity rate of RMB against the US dollar increased by 28 points from the previous day to 7.0974.

According to the Washington Post: India is investigating Apple (AAPL.O) over mobile phone hacking.

USD/JPY fell 20 points in the short term and was last at 141.21.

The U.S. dollar quickly fell more than 10 points against the Japanese yen USD/JPY, and was last at 141.43.

[Spokesperson of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: Will “retaliate” against Israel for the attack and death of senior adviser] On December 27, local time, Sharif, spokesman of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, said that Israel should know that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is very aware of the game. The reasons for the "assassination" of Yid Razi Mousavi and will respond accordingly, "These retaliations will continue at different times and places." On the 25th local time, the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps served in Syria Said Razi Mousavi, a senior commander in the military advisory group, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Syrian capital Damascus.

U.S. API Cushing crude oil inventories for the week to December 22 were 1.568 million barrels, compared with the previous value of 1.853 million barrels.

In the week to December 22, API crude oil production in the United States was 78,000 barrels per day, compared with the previous value of 390,000 barrels per day.

U.S. API refined oil imports in the week to December 22 were -150,000 barrels per day, compared with the previous value of 290,000 barrels per day.

The United States imported 357,000 barrels of API crude oil in the week to December 22, compared with the previous value of 377,000 barrels.

API heating oil inventories in the United States for the week to December 22 were -164,000 barrels, compared with the previous value of -336,000 barrels.

U.S. API refined oil inventories for the week to December 22 were 272,000 barrels, compared with expectations of 1 million barrels, and the previous value of 2.738 million barrels.

API gasoline inventories in the United States for the week to December 22 were -482,000 barrels, compared with expectations of 400,000 barrels, and the previous value of 669,000 barrels.

Market news: US President Biden will travel to Pennsylvania on January 6.

According to the Times of Israel: In New York and Los Angeles in the United States, anti-Israel demonstrators blocked the entrances to airports.

Russian Mineral Development Agency: Two large deposits, Kovichkin and Pomostondrovskoye, will start trial mining of lithium mines from 2024.