This year, the amount of M&A transactions involving listed companies in Hong Kong has reached 38 billion US dollars, which has triggered a rare bidding war. This year is expected to be the busiest year for M&A transactions involving listed companies in Hong Kong in the past decade, with industries ranging from skin care products to logistics real estate, and the bidding war has also warmed up. It is reported that China Mobile's bid for Hongkong Broadband may face competition from American private equity firm I Squared Capital. Bi Hua, chairman of Fenmei Packaging, is negotiating with Qihao Capital to jointly counter the privatization offer of Shandong Xinjufeng. The data shows that the scale of M&A transactions for listed companies in Hong Kong has reached $38 billion this year, the highest level since 2017, including the merger of Guotai Junan Securities and Haitong Securities, a smaller competitor, to become the largest brokerage firm in China.Black hand again! The United States will raise import tariffs on solar polysilicon, silicon wafers and some tungsten products in China from the beginning of next year. The Office of the US Trade Representative issued a statement saying that the United States will raise import tariffs on solar polysilicon, silicon wafers and some tungsten products imported from China from the beginning of next year after a four-year review by the Biden administration. The tariff rate of silicon wafer and polysilicon will be increased to 50%, and the tariff rate of some tungsten products will be increased to 25%. These tariff increases will take effect on January 1, 2025. (Cailian)OpenAI:Sora has started partial recovery, and OpenAI updated the outage accident report, saying that remedial work is continuing. API traffic recovery is in progress, and we are recovering ChatGPT traffic by region. Sora has begun a partial recovery.
Ethereum hit $3,900/piece, up 1.81% in the day.The extremist organization claimed responsibility for the attack on the headquarters of the Afghan Refugee and Repatriation Affairs Department. On the 12th local time, the Islamic State khorasan province, a branch of the extremist organization, claimed responsibility for the attack on the headquarters of the Afghan Refugee and Repatriation Affairs Department. On the 11th, a suicide attack occurred at the headquarters of the Afghan Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation, which killed four people and seriously injured four others. Khalil Rahman Haqqani, Acting Minister of the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation, died in the attack.The three major stock indexes rose, the GEM index rose by 1%, the Shenzhen Component Index rose by 0.44%, and the Shanghai Composite Index rose by 0.42%.
OPENAI API、CHATGPT、SORA流量基本恢复。Afternoon comments on Hong Kong stocks: Hang Seng Index rose by 1.72%, Hang Seng Technology Index rose by 2.55%, Hong Kong stocks closed at noon, Hang Seng Index rose by 1.72% and Hang Seng Technology Index rose by 2.55%. Chinese brokerage stocks and consumer stocks were among the top gainers, with China Merchants Securities, Mengniu Dairy and Tongcheng Travel up over 7% and over 5% respectively.Shanghai Minhang issued 50 opinions to promote high-quality industrial development and strengthen high-quality financial empowerment. The Minhang District People's Government of Shanghai issued the Policy Opinions on High-quality Industrial Development in Minhang District (Trial) on December 12, aiming at improving the basic industrial capacity and the modernization level of industrial chain, accelerating the concentration of various advanced production factors to the development of new-quality productive forces, and promoting the high-quality industrial development in Minhang District. The opinion proposes to strengthen the empowerment of high-quality finance, form a 30 billion yuan "special loan for high-quality development of enterprises in Minhang District", give preferential interest rates to loans, and give subsidies according to a certain proportion of loan interest. Form a credit line of 20 billion yuan "Minhang District Special Loan for Supporting New Infrastructure Construction" to give gradient support to various fixed assets projects.