General Motors (GM): The unmanned business Cruise and GM Technical team will be merged, and the plan is expected to be completed in the first half of 2025. According to the priority of GM's capital allocation, GM will no longer fund Cruise's self-driving taxi development business.Japanese manufacturers' confidence index turned negative to the central bank's forecast in December. A short-term survey in Reuters, Japan, found that Japanese manufacturers' business confidence deteriorated further in December due to concerns about US protectionist policies. The survey of 505 large Japanese non-financial enterprises showed that manufacturers' confidence index fell from 5 in November to -1 in December, which was the first time since last February, and the number of pessimists exceeded optimists for the first time in 10 months. The loss of business confidence may cast a shadow over the Bank of Japan's forecast. The Bank of Japan had previously predicted that a steady recovery driven by rising wages and consumption would help inflation reach the 2% target in a sustainable way and justify further interest rate hikes. Many manufacturing industries have reported that business confidence has declined. Among electronic machinery manufacturers, steel and non-ferrous metal manufacturers, pessimists far exceed optimists.Wells Fargo: Reduce the target price of Dow Chemical from $60 to $55, and maintain the "overweight" rating.
Jin Guanping, Economic Daily: Implement more active and promising macro policies. The article points out that the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee held a meeting on December 9 to analyze and study the economic work in 2025, and put forward "implement more active and promising macro policies" and "strengthen unconventional countercyclical adjustment" in view of the macro policy orientation next year, and clearly implement more active fiscal policies and moderately loose monetary policies. This important deployment has released a clear signal of strengthening macro-control and strong and steady growth. Implementing a "more active" fiscal policy means increasing fiscal countercyclical adjustment and improving the effectiveness of fiscal policy while maintaining policy stability and continuity. "Moderately loose" means that monetary policy will better reflect the supportive stance and orientation, maintain a reasonable and sufficient liquidity, and further reduce the comprehensive financing costs of enterprises and residents.Jialiqi: It is planned to distribute a cash dividend of RMB 2.8 yuan every 10 shares. Jialiqi announced that it plans to distribute a cash dividend of RMB 2.8 yuan to all shareholders every 10 shares based on the company's existing total share capital of 82,975,500 shares, with a total cash dividend of RMB 23,233,100, accounting for 29.56% of the company's net profit attributable to shareholders of listed companies in the first three quarters of 2024. No bonus shares will be paid this time, and the capital reserve fund will not be converted into share capital, and the remaining undistributed profits will be carried forward to the next year.In November, the scale of wealth management exceeded expectations, and the scale of 14 wealth management companies increased by over 420 billion yuan. In November, the product scale of wealth management companies ushered in a general increase. According to the obtained data, in November, there were 6 state-owned wealth management companies and 8 joint-stock wealth management companies (CMB, Xingyin, Everbright, Xinyin, Ping 'an, Huaxia, Puyin and Minsheng), totaling 14 wealth management companies, with a survival scale of nearly 22.6 trillion yuan, an increase of more than 420 billion yuan compared with October, and the growth rate was slightly lower than the impact of capital backflow in October. (21st century business herald)
The commander of Syrian democratic forces said that under the mediation of the US, Syrian rebels and Syrian democratic forces reached a ceasefire agreement in the northern city of Mambiji.Details of the "Teze Meeting" exposed Trump's friendliness. Zelensky said that he wanted security. Two sources said that during his first meeting with Trump after the US election, Ukrainian President Zelensky emphasized that Ukraine needed security in any negotiations with Russia to end the conflict. French President Macron presided over the meeting in Paris. The three leaders talked for 35 minutes without a consultant, and did not discuss any specific details of the vision of peace, but four people familiar with the matter said that Trump reiterated his hope for an immediate ceasefire and a rapid end to the war through negotiations. One of the sources said that Trump was friendly, respectful and open, and seemed to be listening. A source said: "Some key points were mentioned during the meeting. For example, some people said that peace needs to be guaranteed, because a ceasefire alone is not enough. Putin may break the ceasefire again without proper guarantee as before." The source said that Trump "he is considering all the details." Several officials close to Trump said that Trump's direct contacts with Zelensky were generally cordial, which was different from some of his previous public statements, including calling Zelensky "the greatest salesman on earth" because he requested and accepted billions of dollars in US military assistance.Henan: Users with large electricity consumption are encouraged to configure efficient and flexible energy storage systems to realize peak load shedding and valley filling. The General Office of the People's Government of Henan Province issued a notice on the implementation plan of accelerating the integration of source, grid, load and storage in Henan Province, which proposed to actively develop diversified energy storage routes. Encourage the incremental distribution network to build long-term energy storage facilities to alleviate the long-term balance adjustment pressure caused by the mismatch between new energy generation characteristics and load characteristics. Encourage users with large electricity consumption to configure efficient and flexible energy storage systems, realize peak shaving and valley filling, and promote the time-space matching of power generation and electricity consumption. In areas with high reliability requirements for power supply such as transportation and communication, we will encourage the construction of new mobile or fixed energy storage facilities to improve emergency power supply support capabilities.