Japan Life Insurance announced that it would spend $8.2 billion to acquire the life insurance company Resolution Life. On December 11th, Japan Life Insurance Mutual announced that it would spend about $8.2 billion to acquire the remaining 77% shares of the life insurance company Resolution Life. The transaction is expected to be completed in the second half of 2025. On the same day, Japan Life announced that it would acquire the remaining 20% shares of MLC Life Insurance from National Bank of Australia (NAB) and integrate MLC with Resolution Life.In response to MAC's refusal to lift the ban on group tours to mainland China, Democratic Progressive Party authorities deliberately confuse the audience and make excuses for refusing to lift the ban on group tours to mainland China, further exposing their confrontational nature of "independence", showing that they have no intention to promote cross-strait personnel exchanges and benefit the tourism industry and grassroots people in Taiwan Province, and arousing stronger dissatisfaction and opposition from the industry on the island and Taiwan Province compatriots. Adhering to the concept of "one family on both sides of the strait", we always respect, care for and benefit Taiwan Province compatriots, and always support the normalization of cross-strait personnel exchanges and cross-strait exchanges in various fields, including tourism. We warmly welcome Taiwan Province compatriots to visit the mainland for sightseeing, visiting relatives and friends, visiting and communicating, and studying and working.Institution: In the first half of 2024, the scale of China's edge cloud market increased by 21% year-on-year. Recently, the latest report "China Edge Cloud Market Tracking Research, 2024H1" released by International Data Corporation (IDC) shows that in the first half of 2024, the scale of China's edge cloud market totaled 5.48 billion yuan, with a year-on-year growth rate of 21.0%. Among them, the market scale of edge public cloud services, edge exclusive cloud services and edge cloud solutions reached RMB 3.00 billion, RMB 970 million and RMB 1.50 billion respectively. Internet audio and video distribution and real-time interaction based on edge resources, edge game clothes, cloud terminals and cloud games, cloud network services, and lightweight IT architecture migration of local industry customers are the core driving forces for market growth in this period.
China Overseas Development: The annual interest of "23 Zhonghai 04" will be paid on December 12th. On December 10th, China Overseas Development (00688.HK) announced that China Overseas Enterprise Development Group Co., Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the company, will pay the annual interest of "23 Zhonghai 04" on December 12th, totaling 96 million yuan. The total amount of bonds issued in this issue is 3 billion yuan, and the issuance period is 5 years. The coupon rate of bonds in this issue is 3.20%.Qinghai Eco-environmental Industry Company was established with a registered capital of 200 million yuan. According to the enterprise search APP, recently, Qinghai Eco-environmental Industry Co., Ltd. was established with Wang Gencun as its legal representative and a registered capital of 200 million yuan. Its business scope includes: management services for ecological protection areas; Ecological resources monitoring; Environmental emergency management services; Carbon emission reduction, carbon transformation, carbon capture, carbon sequestration technology research and development, etc.South Korean banks' net household loans increased by 1.9 trillion won in October.
The "moderately loose" monetary policy boosted the confidence of all parties. A50ETF Huabao (159596) attracted 17.02 million yuan of gold yesterday. On December 11, the Shanghai Composite Index fluctuated within a narrow range in the morning, and A50ETF Huabao (159596) fell slightly by 0.18% with a turnover of 84.21 million yuan. In terms of constituent stocks, the top ten awkward stocks are mixed. On the upside, Midea Group led the gains, followed by Zijin Mining and Changjiang Power. On the downside, Hengrui Pharma led the decline. In terms of capital flow, A50ETF Huabao (159596) received a net inflow of 17.02 million yuan yesterday. China Post Securities said that the the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee meeting continued to actively set the tone, and the policy turned loose, and expanding domestic demand in all directions became the current policy direction. This meeting made it clear that "strengthening unconventional countercyclical adjustment" and the fiscal policy adjustment was "more active", which basically met market expectations; The monetary policy is set to be "moderately loose", and the tone is adjusted again after 14 years. Next year, it is expected to be wide in currency and credit.China made more than half of the imported cars registered in South Korea in November. According to a data released by CARISYOU, a Korean automobile data research institution, the proportion of Chinese-made cars registered in South Korea in November was 54.3%, setting a record this year. The data shows that there were 659 newly registered imported cars in November, of which 358 were made in China, accounting for 54.3%, setting a record for the highest proportion in a single month this year. By brand, BYD increased by 21.7% year-on-year to 140 vehicles, ranking first among all imported car brands. Brands such as Geely (No.3), Xinyuan (No.4), Haig School Bus (No.8) and Dongfeng Xiaokang (No.10) are also among the top ten. The number and proportion of Chinese-made cars registered in Hanxin increased year by year, with only 296 (6.2%) in 2020, 569 (9.9%) in 2021, 2276 (29%) in 2022 and 4215 (47.5%) in 2023.Yonhap News Agency: South Korean police special investigation team raided the presidential palace on martial law.