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Putin had a phone conversation with Hungarian President Orban on the situation in Ukraine. According to the Tass news agency, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Hungarian Prime Minister Orban discussed the further development of energy projects.Hengrui Pharma: HRS-4729 injection was approved for clinical trial. Hengrui Pharma announced that the company and its subsidiary Fujian Sheng Di Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. received the Notice of Approval for Clinical Trial of HRS-4729 injection approved and issued by National Medical Products Administration. The drug is a polypeptide drug independently developed, and it is a GLP-1R/GIPR/GCGR triple agonist, which is suitable for obese or overweight patients. Up to now, HRS-4729 injection has invested about 19.56 million yuan in research and development.Expert: Central enterprises will continue to recruit in A-shares. On the evening of December 9, Huada Jiutian, a domestic EDA leader, announced that China Electronic Information Industry Group Co., Ltd. will become the actual controller of the company. So far, the number of A-share listed companies "incorporated" by central enterprises reached 10 in 2024. The end of 2024 is an important node for central enterprises to optimize the layout of listed platforms. The Work Plan for Improving the Quality of Listed Companies Controlled by Central Enterprises previously issued by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council made it clear that the adjustment and revitalization of the listing platform should be basically completed by the end of 2024, and it is supported to revitalize through absorption and merger, asset restructuring and cross-market operation, or to withdraw through free transfer and equity transfer, so as to further focus on the main business and advantageous areas. Looking forward to the next layout rhythm of central enterprises in the capital market, many experts interviewed by reporters believe that the pace of "recruiting" of central enterprises in A shares will continue. In the coming period, the cases of central enterprises strengthening their main business through capital operation and giving play to their strategic support and industrial leading functions will be on the rise. (shanghai securities news)

CF40 Research: Three Channels to Expand Domestic Demand. An article published by Guan Wei of China Financial Forty Forum (CF40) pointed out that the expansion of total demand, whether it is to expand consumption or investment demand, should be implemented on credit growth. When credit goes up, residents, enterprises and governments have more money in their pockets, so do expenditures and incomes, as well as profits and investments. At present, there are three main ways to expand credit: first, fiscal policy is exerted and the government borrows money; Second, the monetary policy will exert its strength and reduce the policy interest rate; The third is to stabilize the real estate market, and there can be no further sharp decline. In terms of finance, maintain the intensity of fiscal expenditure in a broad sense, and moderately increase the fiscal deficit to 4% in 2025. In terms of monetary policy, we should take reducing the real interest rate as an important goal, continue to implement "strong interest rate reduction", and timely reduce the interest rate of structural monetary policy tools below the policy interest rate level. In terms of the property market, it will ease the current cash flow pressure faced by real estate enterprises and promote the real estate to stop falling and stabilize from both ends of supply and demand.Tang Shikai, a member of the board of directors of Mercedes-Benz, will retire next year and is now in charge of the company's business in Greater China. Mercedes-Benz Group Co., Ltd. announced that Hubertus Troska, the current member of the board of directors in charge of the company's business in Greater China, will retire in 2025 as planned. He himself decided to take up a new position as a member of the board of directors of Mercedes-Benz Group Co., Ltd. and a special representative for China affairs from February 1, 2025 to promote the company's business system in the world's largest market. Tang Shikai will officially retire on July 31, 2025.China Automotive Power Battery Industry Innovation Alliance: In November, the sales volume of power batteries in China increased by 29.7% year-on-year. According to the monthly information of power batteries in November 2024 released by China Automotive Power Battery Industry Innovation Alliance, the sales volume of power batteries and other batteries in China was 118.3GWh in November, up by 7.2% month-on-month and 40.1% year-on-year. Among them, the sales volume of power batteries was 87.8GWh, accounting for 74.2% of the total sales volume, up 10.9% from the previous month and 29.7% from the same period last year. The sales volume of other batteries was 30.5GWh, accounting for 25.8% of the total sales volume, down 2.2% from the previous month and up 82.3% year-on-year. From January to November, the cumulative sales volume of power and other batteries in China was 914.3GWh, a cumulative year-on-year increase of 42.8%. Among them, the cumulative sales of power batteries was 692.3GWh, accounting for 75.7% of the total sales, with a cumulative year-on-year increase of 27.1%; The cumulative sales volume of other batteries was 222.0GWh, accounting for 24.3% of the total sales volume, with a cumulative year-on-year increase of 132.5%.

In November, the scale of wealth management exceeded expectations, and the scale of 14 wealth management companies increased by over 420 billion yuan. In November, the product scale of wealth management companies ushered in a general increase. According to the obtained data, in November, there were 6 state-owned wealth management companies and 8 joint-stock wealth management companies (CMB, Xingyin, Everbright, Xinyin, Ping 'an, Huaxia, Puyin and Minsheng), totaling 14 wealth management companies, with a survival scale of nearly 22.6 trillion yuan, an increase of more than 420 billion yuan compared with October, and the growth rate was slightly lower than the impact of capital backflow in October. (21st century business herald)Australia's S&P/ASX200 index opened down 12.60 points, or 0.15%, at 8380.4 points on Wednesday, December 11th.Oppenheimer: Raise the target price of opening customers from $980 to $1,075, and reiterate the rating of "outperforming the market".