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The General Administration of Market Supervision held an anti-monopoly compliance lecture hall for the automobile industry. On December 11th, the General Administration of Market Supervision held the ninth anti-monopoly compliance lecture hall in Beijing to give lectures on anti-monopoly compliance for the automobile industry. The General Administration of Market Supervision requires the business entities of the automobile industry to compact the responsibility of the anti-monopoly compliance subject, actively regulate business practices, establish and improve the anti-monopoly compliance system, and effectively prevent and stop the occurrence of monopoly behaviors. The General Administration of Market Supervision will continue to pay attention to the competition in the automobile industry, further promote the special anti-monopoly law enforcement actions in the field of people's livelihood, promote the formation of a fairer and more dynamic market environment, and continuously enhance the people's sense of acquisition, happiness and security. (City speaks Newspeak)Qujiang Wenlv: It received a warning letter from Shaanxi Supervision Bureau, and Qujiang Wenlv announced that the company received the Decision on Taking Measures to Issue Warning Letters to Xi 'an Qujiang Cultural Tourism Co., Ltd., Xie Xiaoning and Xi 'an Qujiang Tourism Investment Co., Ltd. issued by Shaanxi Supervision Bureau of China Securities Regulatory Commission on December 10, 2024. After investigation, the company delayed the disclosure of the major event that 8.23% of the company's shares held by the controlling shareholder Xi 'an Qujiang Tourism Investment Co., Ltd. were to be disposed of by the judiciary, which violated the relevant provisions of the Measures for the Administration of Information Disclosure of Listed Companies. According to Article 52 of the Measures, Shaanxi Supervision Bureau decided to take administrative supervision measures to issue warning letters to the company, Xie Xiaoning, the relevant responsible person, and Qujiang Travel Investment, the controlling shareholder. The company will seriously rectify, strengthen information disclosure and corporate governance, and improve the operation level and information disclosure quality.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%.

Goldman Sachs: I don't agree that gold can't reach $3,000 under a strong dollar. Goldman Sachs said that we don't agree with the view that the price of gold can't rise to $3,000 per ounce by the end of 2025 when the dollar remains strong for a long time. We predict that gold will reach $3,000 per ounce by the end of 2025, and the reduction of interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve (rather than the strengthening of the US dollar) is the downside risk of this prediction.Lian Ping, president of the Chief Industry Research Institute of Guangkai, believes that it is expected to reduce the RRR by about 100 basis points in 2025, releasing more than 3 trillion yuan of liquidity. Among them, there is limited room for reducing the deposit reserve ratio of small and medium-sized financial institutions, and the expected RRR reduction is about 50 basis points.Xia Yiping, CEO of Extreme Vietnam: The company is experiencing difficulties at present, and the company needs to adjust immediately. On December 11th, it was learned from the inside of Extreme Vietnam Automobile that Xia Yiping, CEO of Extreme Vietnam, communicated with all employees through video conference, frankly indicating that the company is experiencing difficulties at present, and the company needs to adjust immediately and enter the 2.0 stage of entrepreneurship. The management will go all out to tide over the difficulties with all employees. Xia Yiping said that in the new entrepreneurial period, the following four things must be done well: 1. Adhere to the long-term investment in core technologies to maintain the leading edge; 2. Strengthen sales and service capacity building to cope with fierce market competition; 3. Merge departments and posts with duplicate functions and change inefficient internal workflow; 4. Reduce projects that cannot improve financial performance in the short term. (Blue Whale Finance)

Officials said that fighting broke out between the forces of Jubaland and the federal government in Somalia.Japanese manufacturers' confidence index turned negative to the central bank's forecast in December. A short-term survey in Reuters, Japan, found that Japanese manufacturers' business confidence deteriorated further in December due to concerns about US protectionist policies. The survey of 505 large Japanese non-financial enterprises showed that manufacturers' confidence index fell from 5 in November to -1 in December, which was the first time since last February, and the number of pessimists exceeded optimists for the first time in 10 months. The loss of business confidence may cast a shadow over the Bank of Japan's forecast. The Bank of Japan had previously predicted that a steady recovery driven by rising wages and consumption would help inflation reach the 2% target in a sustainable way and justify further interest rate hikes. Many manufacturing industries have reported that business confidence has declined. Among electronic machinery manufacturers, steel and non-ferrous metal manufacturers, pessimists far exceed optimists.Trump appointed TOM BARRACK as the US ambassador to Turkey.