Wang Tao, UBS: It is expected that the Central Economic Work Conference will focus on the short-term policy package. Recently, the market highly expects the Central Economic Work Conference to guide the high-quality economic development of China next year. Wang Tao, head of Asian economic research at UBS and chief China economist, said: "I expect that the Central Economic Work Conference may focus on the short-term policy package in 2025 and 2026, but it will also emphasize accelerating some reform measures already outlined at the Third Plenary Session." Wang Tao believes that the next important reform measures may include providing better protection and access for the private economy, deepening the reform of state-owned enterprises to improve efficiency and governance, promoting household registration reform to improve the welfare of migrant workers, strengthening the social security network, and carrying out fiscal and taxation reforms to solve local fiscal revenue problems. "I think structural, deeper and faster reforms will be very important, not only to attract foreign investment, but also to boost domestic confidence." (China Daily)At midday, the main contract of alumina futures opened lower, and now it is down nearly 3% to 5101 yuan/ton. In the news, according to Shanghai Nonferrous Metals, on December 10th, 30,000 tons of alumina was sold overseas, with a transaction price of $680/mt FOB Western Australia, and the shipping date was in late January/early February.HSBC: As two-way risks still exist, from the current point of view, gradual progress is the right approach for the Bank of England.
South Korea's Minister of Planning and Finance, Choe Sang-mu, said that he had tried his best to stabilize the turbulent financial market.The security department of the President's Office of South Korea confronted the searchers. The special investigation team of emergency martial law of the National Investigation Department of the South Korean police tried to seize and search the President's Office today (December 11), but the confrontation lasted for 2 hours due to the postponement of consultations with the security department of the President's Office. The Special Investigation Team of Emergency Martial Law of the National Investigation Department of the South Korean Police Agency said that the seizure and search personnel arrived at the consulting room of the President's Office at around 11: 45 local time to go through the entry and exit procedures, and then showed the police's seizure and search warrant to the Presidential Guard. It is understood that there are four places for the seizure and search, including the President's Office, the Secretary's Office, the State Council Room and the Presidential Security Office. The special investigation team held a two-hour consultation with the security department of the President's Office, but no results were obtained. (CCTV International News)Canalys: It is estimated that the market size of generative AI will reach 72.8 billion dollars in 2029. According to Canalys' latest forecast, the global generative artificial intelligence (AI) market is still in its infancy, and it will grow fivefold in five years, from 14.6 billion dollars in 2024 to 72.8 billion dollars in 2029. Top applications include consumer, corporate services, retail, media and entertainment, and health care.
IG Group: The market liquidity problem leads to the widening of the spread between gold and silver. The financial institution IG Group: The higher spread between gold and silver is due to the disconnection between the spot market and the futures market, which leads to the liquidity provider (LP) greatly expanding the spread. In order to maintain the availability of the transaction, we adjusted the maximum spread accordingly. This is the problem of the whole market, not just the problem of IG Group.The Central Finger Research Institute: In November, the price of second-hand houses in Beijing narrowed by 0.17 percentage points from the previous month. On December 11th, the Central Finger Research Institute released a map of the price of second-hand houses in the top ten cities in November 2024, showing that in November 2024, 18,763 sets of second-hand houses were sold in Beijing, up 8% from the previous month and 49.6% from the same period last year. The cumulative turnover from January to November increased by 8.2% compared with the same period last year. In terms of price, in November, the price of second-hand housing in Beijing fell by 0.12% month-on-month, narrowing by 0.17 percentage points from the previous month.Airbnb announced the top ten outbound destinations for China users during the Spring Festival holiday. According to Airbnb's data from China, compared with the year-end holidays such as New Year's Day, the search enthusiasm of China users for outbound travel during the Spring Festival holiday has nearly tripled. The top ten outbound destinations are Japan, Thailand, New Zealand, Norway, Australia, South Korea, Malaysia, the United States, Italy and Indonesia, and Asia-Pacific destinations account for seven seats.