Before the U.S. stock market: China ETF-Direxion fell by nearly 12%, C3.ai rose by about 6%, and Oracle Bone Inscriptions fell by about 8% when it was three times richer. Before the U.S. stock market, China Stock Exchange fell by about 8%, Xpeng Motors fell by 6% and Pinduoduo fell by about 5%. C3.ai rose by about 6%, and the company's quarterly performance exceeded expectations, reaching a strategic cooperation with Microsoft. Oracle Bone Inscriptions fell about 8%, and the company's second-quarter results were worse than expected.China Merchants Securities' salary adjustment: "The investment bank's salary is cut by half and the bonus is cancelled". It is reported that China Merchants Securities is taking more measures to reduce the salary. At present, the investment bank's salary is cut by half and the bonus is cancelled, so is the institutional department. A number of China Merchants Securities confirmed the authenticity of the above news to the trade wind, and also said that the "business entertainment expenses of the investment bank were basically cancelled". Affected by the slowdown of IPO rhythm, the equity business of China Merchants Securities Investment Bank has shrunk significantly. Wind data shows that since 2024, the amount of equity underwriting has been 8.181 billion yuan, down over 50% year-on-year.The output value of cosmetics industry in Guangzhou has exceeded 100 billion yuan. The Information Office of Guangzhou Municipal Government held a press conference to introduce the second Guangzhou International Beauty Week, which will be held from December 17th to 21st. The reporter learned that the output value of Guangzhou's cosmetics industry has exceeded 100 billion yuan, ranking first in the country in scale, and beauty cosmetics are becoming a city feature of Guangzhou.
Alaska Airlines rose more than 11% before the market, and raised its fourth-quarter profit forecast. Alaska Airlines Group (ALK.US) rose more than 11% before the market to $60.13. In the news, Alaska Airlines raised its profit forecast for the fourth quarter due to strong tourism demand and improved pricing. The company expects earnings per share to be between 40 and 50 cents in the fourth quarter, compared with the previous forecast of 20 to 40 cents; Earnings per share are expected to be at least $5.75 in 2025, higher than analysts' expectations of $5.50.Foreign capital is buying! Wall Street traders "lay out A shares" have gained huge floating profits. The latest data shows that Wall Street traders are "laying out A shares" through large call options. The data shows that from November 29th to last Friday, Wall Street traders bought nearly 180,000 Direxion Daily FTSE China Bull 3x Shares ETF (Yinn) call options. Wall Street traders also bought about 210,000 Direxion Daily CSI 300 China A Share Bull 2x Shares (code CHAU) call options last week. Among them, CHAU did twice as much as the CSI 300 Index, while YINN did three times as much as the FTSE China A50 Index. U.S. stocks closed overnight, and YINN and CHAU rose by more than 23% and 13% respectively. According to calculation, the book income of the buyers of the above-mentioned YINN and CHAU call options contracts has reached 138 million dollars (about 1 billion yuan). Today, the A-share market opened, and the three major indexes all opened sharply higher. The GEM index rose above 4% at first, and then the market suddenly changed, and the three major indexes quickly fell back. At the close, the Shanghai Composite Index rose by 0.59%, the Shenzhen Composite Index rose by 0.75%, and the GEM index rose by 0.69%. Looking forward to the A-share market outlook, institutional analysis believes that macroeconomic policies are expected to maintain a positive tone of overweight and countercyclical adjustment, and institutional funds, active funds and retail funds are expected to resonate, driving the A-share "year-end and year-end market" to continue to be interpreted.Ren Hongbin, president of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, led a delegation to visit Hong Kong. According to the news of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, from December 8 to 10, Ren Hongbin, president of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, led a delegation to visit Hong Kong, attended the joint meeting of the Mainland-Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce in 2024 and delivered a speech at the symposium of foreign business associations and foreign-funded enterprises in Hong Kong, and prepared to hold the second Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Development Business Conference. During his visit, Ren Hongbin met with Lee Ka Chiu John, Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and Qi Bin, Deputy Director of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. He had extensive exchanges with Lin Jianyue, Chairman of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council, and people from the Hong Kong business community. He had an in-depth exchange of views on deepening economic and trade cooperation between the Mainland and Hong Kong. He went to Jardine Matheson Group, HSBC Group, Swire Group and Cathay Group for investigation, and listened to work reports at the Hong Kong Representative Office of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade and China Patent Agency (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd.
Three national cultural big data group standards were released, and the Cultural Big Data Industry Committee of China Public Relations Association (referred to as the "Special Committee") recently released three national cultural big data group standards to improve the national cultural big data standard system. The three standards released this time are: "Technical Requirements for Cultural Data Service Platform Part 2: Cultural Data Confirmation System", which specifies the architecture, functional requirements and interface standards of the confirmation system in the cloud cultural data service platform; Technical Requirements for Cultural Data Service Platform Part 6: Cultural Data Management System, which specifies the functional architecture, detailed functional requirements, interface standards and security requirements of the data management system in the national cultural big data service platform; Technical Requirements for Digital Recording of Stage Art Performances Part 1: General Requirements, which specifies the personnel organization, implementation process, equipment requirements, process requirements and quality standards for digital recording of stage art performances. (SSE)Zhongyan Co., Ltd.: Up to now, the company has not directly involved in the application field of humanoid robots. Zhongyan Co., Ltd. issued a change announcement. The company is concerned that the concept of PEEK material has recently attracted market attention. The downstream application fields of PEEK products of the company include automobile industry, electronic information industry, high-end manufacturing and energy industry, medical and health industry, aerospace field, etc. Up to now, the company has not directly involved in the application field of humanoid robots.Berenberg raised Oracle Bone Inscriptions's target price from $146 to $157.