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Institution: The battery price stabilized in November, and it is expected to rise slightly in 2025. On December 12, according to the latest research of TrendForce Jibang Consulting, in November 2024, the sales of electric vehicles in China continued to increase, which boosted the demand for power batteries, and the price of Ferrous lithium phosphate batteries remained stable, while the ternary batteries declined slightly. The demand for batteries in the energy storage market maintained the peak season characteristics, and with the price advantage of large-capacity batteries, the proportion of shipments increased. However, the average price of energy storage batteries continued to decline in November due to the slowdown in demand for orders at the end of the year. The agency expects that the price of some lithium battery materials may rise slightly in the peak season of 2025, which is expected to repair the serious losses of the company in the early stage. However, due to the fact that the relationship between supply and demand has not changed from surplus to shortage, the expected increase in material prices is limited, and battery manufacturers actively control costs, the battery price trend will be stable next year.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.SAIC: Haitong Taicang Automobile Terminal has been put into production and operation. According to the official WeChat official account news of SAIC, today, Haitong Taicang Automobile Terminal jointly built by SAIC, Shanghai Port Group and Jiangsu Port Group has been put into production and operation, with an annual throughput of 1.3 million vehicles.

CSRC: Optimize the supply of products in time and include the first batch of index funds in the catalogue of personal pension investment products. Recently, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the Ministry of Finance, the State Administration of Taxation, the General Administration of Financial Supervision and the CSRC jointly issued the Notice on the Full Implementation of the Personal Pension System (hereinafter referred to as the Notice), and the personal pension system will be extended to the whole country on December 15. Personal pension is long-term, persistent and large-scale. By actively investing in the capital market, it is conducive to sharing the fruits of the development of the real economy and helping to maintain and increase value for a long time. As a representative of professional institutional investors in the capital market, Public Offering of Fund industry has been entrusted to manage all kinds of pension assets over 6 trillion yuan, creating good long-term income and accumulating rich management experience. According to the requirements of the Notice, the CSRC timely optimized the product supply and included the first batch of index funds in the catalogue of personal pension investment products. Subsequently, the CSRC will strengthen the supervision of personal pension investment in Public Offering of Fund, urge Public Offering of Fund managers to continuously improve their management and service capabilities, and better support the high-quality development of personal pensions. (CSRC)Samsung Electronics will hold its 2025 strategy meeting next week. Yonhap News Agency quoted unnamed industry sources as saying that Samsung Electronics will hold its 2025 global strategy meeting next week. The electronic products business meeting is scheduled to be held on Tuesday and Wednesday, while the semiconductor department meeting will be held on Thursday. The main agenda items include the upcoming Galaxy S25 smartphone. Lee Jae-yong, the company's executive chairman, is not expected to attend these meetings.Chief Economic Adviser of India: Continuing to support high-quality capital expenditure will be the driving force to maintain India's economic growth.

Guangxi: Expand the coverage of the "white list" project and include the corresponding projects of new housing development loans. According to the news of Guangxi News Network, the General Office of the People's Government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region recently issued a notice on printing and distributing the "Measures for Promoting the Stable and Healthy Development of the Real Estate Market in Guangxi". There are 20 measures, including six aspects: implementing financial support policies, optimizing housing accumulation fund policies, strictly controlling the increment of commercial housing, optimizing the stock of commercial housing, improving the quality of commercial housing and optimizing the business environment of the real estate market. Expand the coverage of the "white list" project of urban real estate financing coordination mechanism. In principle, the "white list" mechanism is the main financing channel for compliant housing development projects, and the corresponding projects of new housing development loans are all included in the "white list". Optimize the loan approval process of "white list" projects to improve the efficiency of loan issuance. On the premise of coordinating with the real estate project company, the commercial bank can pay all the loans in advance to the project fund supervision account opened by the real estate project company according to the plan provided by the real estate project company, and then entrust the payment from the supervision account to the fund-using object according to the actual application.Musk is going to melt the Statue of Liberty? Musk also responded to the rumors of foreign media. Recently, a screenshot appeared on the American network. The content was that CNN published a report saying that Musk, a well-known American entrepreneur, was going to melt the Statue of Liberty in the United States to make a limited edition electric pickup truck. However, Reuters later denied that the CNN report was forged. A spokesman for CNN also told Reuters that the CNN report in the screenshot was forged, and CNN had never published such a report. At present, Musk himself has responded to this matter in a teasing tone on his social platform X. Musk wrote in three posts: "No, I will melt it 1000% (Statue of Liberty)"; "With a laser eye from space"; "and then cast it again before no one notices";Lan Foan met with World Trade Organization Director-General Ivira. On December 9, 2024, Minister Lan Foan met with World Trade Organization Director-General Ivira in Beijing. The two sides exchanged views on enhancing the transparency of subsidy policy, supporting the operation of global trust funds and maintaining the multilateral trading system.