The main force of Brent crude oil futures rose 2.00% in the day to 72.45 US dollars/barrel.Market information: Tim Kuniskis, the boss of Dodge and Ram, has returned to Stratlandis Stratlandis. Earlier in 2024, Tim Kuniskis resigned as an executive in Stellantis.VinFast's second factory in Vietnam has doubled its production capacity to accelerate global expansion. VinFast Auto, a Vietnamese electric vehicle manufacturer, announced its expansion plan to build a second production plant in Vietnam, with a view to doubling its production capacity and meeting the growing market demand for its small and medium-sized models. The new factory is expected to have an annual production capacity of 300,000 vehicles, which is the same as the company's existing factory in Haiphong, and is scheduled to be put into production in July next year. In addition, VinFast also announced plans to establish assembly plants in Indonesia and India, and postponed the start-up time of the factory originally scheduled for North Carolina to 2028. These measures mark the further expansion and deepening of VinFast in the global electric vehicle market.
US stocks of China Stock Exchange and ETF soared at the beginning of the session, and China ETF rose more than 22% when it tripled its wealth.In 2025, the profits of the "Big Seven US Stocks" are expected to increase by only 18%. Investors are looking for new targets. It is predicted that the combined profits of the seven technology giants, namely Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA and Tesla, will increase by only 18% in 2025, far lower than the 34% in 2024. Excluding NVIDIA, the biggest beneficiary of AI fanaticism, the combined profits of the other six companies will only increase by 3% in 2025. To this end, investors have begun to look for new investment targets, such as energy and biotechnology units. An 18% profit increase is a good performance for almost all industries, except for these large technology companies. At the same time, the profit increase of the Standard & Poor's 500 Index is expected to reach 13%, higher than this year's 10%. In other words, these technology giants will no longer be the growth benchmarks of American companies. Julian McManus, portfolio manager of investment company Janus Henderson, said: "The Big Seven may not be the engine of market growth as it was in the past year." To this end, investors have responded. According to EPFR Global data, in the week ending December 4th, the IT sector suffered the largest capital outflow in six weeks, reaching $1.4 billion, while small-cap stocks attracted $4.6 billion in capital inflow. (Global Market Broadcast)How to do economic work next year? A quick look at the main points of the Politburo meeting. On December 9, the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee held a meeting to analyze and study the economic work in 2025. The meeting held that China's economic strength, scientific and technological strength and comprehensive national strength continued to increase. The new quality productivity has developed steadily, the reform and opening up has continued to deepen, the risk mitigation in key areas has been orderly and effective, and the people's livelihood security has been solid and powerful. The main objectives and tasks of economic and social development throughout the year will be successfully completed. (21 Finance)
The CFPB of the United States ordered the supervision of Alphabet to file a lawsuit to fight back. The Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPB) announced that it ordered the federal supervision of Google Payment under Alphabet and determined that the services provided by Google Payment posed risks to consumers. Google Payment has filed a lawsuit against the authorities' decision.Ukraine's national natural gas transportation company said that on December 10th, Russia nominated 42.34 million cubic meters of natural gas at Sudan border crossing, compared with 42.31 million cubic meters on December 9th.Interpretation of the Political Bureau Meeting in December by CITIC Securities: It is estimated that the reverse repo rate will drop by 40-50bps next year, and the LPR and loan interest rates may drop even more. CITIC Securities Research Report pointed out that a new round of policy starting guns will be fired, and the policy inflection point will be reconfirmed, making it clear that the macro policy will be strengthened and effective in 2025. From the perspective of fiscal policy, the meeting called for the implementation of a "more active fiscal policy" and enriched the policy toolbox, which may indicate that in 2025, both deficit ratio in a narrow sense and deficit ratio in a broad sense will be significantly improved, and the focus of policy development is also expected to be marginal in the field of people's livelihood consumption. From the perspective of monetary policy, this Politburo meeting calls for the implementation of a moderately loose monetary policy. This is the first time that China has implemented a moderately loose monetary policy after 2010. It is estimated that the reverse repo rate will drop by 40-50bps next year, and the LPR and loan interest rates may drop even more. From the perspective of domestic demand policy, the statement of expanding domestic demand in an all-round way, especially "vigorously boosting consumption", exceeds market expectations. With the support of the existing policies coming into effect and the policy of increasing domestic demand, the improvement of domestic demand may have strong certainty and sustainability. In addition, in terms of structural policies, on the one hand, the meeting clearly stated that it is necessary to "stabilize the property market and the stock market", and the importance of the stock market continues to be highlighted, and real estate is still in the policy landing period; On the other hand, the meeting emphasized that "scientific and technological innovation leads the development of new quality productive forces", and new industries and future industries are expected to receive further policy support.