Minister of Economy of Slovakia: From next week, we will hold a series of negotiations on natural gas supply, including with EU partners and Ukraine.The Ministry of Commerce held a special meeting of the party group to emphasize the need to vigorously boost consumption. On the 13th, Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao presided over a special meeting of the party group to convey the spirit of studying the Central Economic Work Conference and to study, deploy and implement the work. The meeting stressed that it is necessary to vigorously boost consumption. We will intensify efforts to expand the scope, implement the trade-in policy for consumer goods, innovate diversified consumption scenarios, expand service consumption, and actively develop the first-round economy. It is necessary to expand high-level opening to the outside world and stabilize foreign trade and foreign investment. We will expand independent opening and unilateral opening in an orderly manner, steadily expand institutional opening, and promote the free trade pilot zone to improve quality and efficiency and expand the reform mandate. Efforts should be made to stabilize trade in goods and actively develop service trade, green trade and digital trade. We will deepen the reform of foreign investment promotion system and mechanism, steadily push forward the opening of service industry, expand the pilot projects in the fields of telecommunications, medical care and education, and continue to build the brand of "Investing in China". Promote high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road", deepen and improve the overseas comprehensive service system.Russian Defense Ministry: In the past week, the Russian army launched 15 cluster strikes against Ukrainian military enterprises and facilities. The Russian Defense Ministry said that in the past week, the Russian army launched 15 cluster strikes against Ukrainian military enterprises, Ukrainian military security energy facilities and Ukrainian military infrastructure including foreign mercenaries assembly sites.
Mckinsey agreed to pay $650 million to settle the criminal investigation of opioids by the U.S. Department of Justice. Mckinsey submitted a five-year deferred prosecution agreement to the federal court in Abingdon, Virginia, and agreed to pay $650 million to settle the criminal investigation of the U.S. Department of Justice on its work in guiding the opioid manufacturer Purdue Pharmaceutical to increase sales. According to court documents, Martin Elling, a former senior partner of McKinsey, agreed to plead guilty to obstruction of justice because he destroyed McKinsey's consulting records for Purdue Pharmaceutical. He will plead guilty on January 10th next year. Mckinsey has previously reached various settlement agreements totaling nearly $1 billion. The company had previously faced lawsuits in several States in the United States, and was accused of providing sales analysis and marketing advice to pharmaceutical companies such as Purdue Pharmaceutical and Johnson & Johnson, which contributed to the popularity of opioids.This week, the Shenzhen Stock Exchange took self-regulatory measures against 171 abnormal securities trading behaviors, and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange released regulatory trends: 1. Regulatory trends of listed companies (December 6-December 12, 2024) From December 6 to December 12, the Exchange took disciplinary action against one violation, involving information disclosure and standardized operation violations; Supervision letters were issued for 9 violations, 3 related to information disclosure and standardized operation violations, and 6 related to securities trading violations. This week, 18 inquiry letters and 5 other letters were sent out. II. Market Trading Supervision Dynamics (December 9-December 13, 2024) From December 9 to December 13, the Exchange took self-regulatory measures against 171 abnormal securities trading behaviors, involving abnormal trading situations such as intraday bidding, false declaration, etc. Focus on monitoring "*ST Tongzhou" with abnormal stock price fluctuation recently; A total of 9 major events of listed companies were verified, and 3 clues of suspected illegal cases were reported to the CSRC. (Issued by Shenzhen Stock Exchange)Market News: The European Central Bank will release the data of the Emergency Anti-epidemic Bond Purchase Program (PEPP) once a month from January 8 next year.
International Finance Association: In November, the net inflow of foreign investment in emerging market bonds and stock portfolios was $19.2 billion; The net outflow of foreign investment in emerging market stock markets was $11.1 billion; Debt inflows reached $30.4 billion.Morgan Stanley lowered the Nike target price from $82.00 to $80.00.Tigress Financial raised Wal-Mart's target price from $86.00 to $115.00.