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%. The new Indian central bank governor: We have made progress in inclusive finance, but there is still more work to be done; Efforts will be made to further utilize technology without stifling innovation.
Liaoning Energy: Guo Hongbo, the chairman of the board of directors, resigned due to job change. Liaoning Energy (600758) announced on the evening of December 11th that Guo Hongbo applied to resign as the chairman, director and all the special committees under the board of directors due to job change. After resigning, Guo Hongbo no longer holds any position in the company.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.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.
The second meeting of the Global Foreign Exchange Market Committee in 2024 was successfully held. From December 5 to December 6, 2024, the second meeting of the Global Foreign Exchange Committee (GFXC) in 2024 was held online. The meeting discussed the promotion and implementation of global standards, the second round of three-year review of global standards, the operation of foreign exchange market and related market hot issues. Representatives from China Foreign Exchange Market Steering Committee (CFXC) attended the meeting. This meeting discussed the final results of the second round of three-year review of global standards. The Working Group on Foreign Exchange Settlement Risk and the Working Group on Foreign Exchange Data respectively introduced the final revision suggestions of the relevant provisions of the global standards, and how the Working Group continuously improved according to the public comments and feedback from the local foreign exchange market committees and in October 2024. The revision of the Global Standards aims to strengthen the relevant principles of foreign exchange settlement risk management and enhance the transparency of specific types of foreign exchange transactions and the use of customer-generated data on electronic trading platforms. GFXC members strongly support this.Jin Guanping, Economic Daily: Implement more active and promising macro policies. The article points out that the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee held a meeting on December 9 to analyze and study the economic work in 2025, and put forward "implement more active and promising macro policies" and "strengthen unconventional countercyclical adjustment" in view of the macro policy orientation next year, and clearly implement more active fiscal policies and moderately loose monetary policies. This important deployment has released a clear signal of strengthening macro-control and strong and steady growth. Implementing a "more active" fiscal policy means increasing fiscal countercyclical adjustment and improving the effectiveness of fiscal policy while maintaining policy stability and continuity. "Moderately loose" means that monetary policy will better reflect the supportive stance and orientation, maintain a reasonable and sufficient liquidity, and further reduce the comprehensive financing costs of enterprises and residents.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.