China and Vietnam announced the signing of an intergovernmental agreement on cross-border standard-gauge railway cooperation projects. On December 10th, the 16th meeting of the China-Vietnam Bilateral Cooperation Steering Committee was held in Beijing. The two sides agreed to give full play to the overall coordinating role of the Steering Committee, actively explore the direction and measures to deepen the building of a community of destiny between China and Vietnam around the implementation of the high-level consensus between the two parties and the two countries, and promote more results. The two sides announced the signing of an intergovernmental agreement on cross-border standard-gauge railway cooperation projects. The meeting also heard a report on the first meeting of the "3+3" strategic dialogue mechanism between China and Vietnam in diplomacy, national defense and public security.Prosus, the major shareholder of Tencent, repurchased 126.4 million euros of shares from December 2 to December 6.U.S. stocks fell. Nasdaq China Jinlong Index fell more than 3%,iShares China large-cap ETF fell 3.8%, KraneShares CSI China Internet ETF fell 3.9%, and Nasdaq China Jinlong Index fell more than 3%. BILI.O fell by 8%, FUTU.O by 6% and Xpeng Motors by 4%.
Sichuan continued to promote the supply and demand docking of enterprises in the field of industrial informatization, with a cumulative signing amount of 38 billion yuan. The supply and demand docking activity of a new generation of information technology industry in Sichuan Province was held in Chengdu on the 10th. Zhai Gang, director of the Department of Economy and Information Technology of Sichuan Province, said at this event that since September this year, Sichuan has held nine consecutive supply-demand docking activities of "expanding the market and growing steadily" in Sichuan Province, which has promoted the establishment of long-term cooperative relations between the supply and demand sides of enterprises in Sichuan's industrial and information fields, and has contributed to a number of cooperation results and procurement transactions. At present, the accumulated contracted amount has reached 38 billion yuan. (Zhongxin. com)The chief financial officer of Goldman Sachs said that it is expected that strategic M&A activities will accelerate in 2025.The Kremlin says Putin met with the Indian Defense Minister.
Alaska Airlines shares rose 18%, the biggest increase since November 2020.Top fund managers say that Trump's tariff plan is influenced or less than expected by the negotiation strategy. Some of the most influential and powerful fund managers in the world believe that the potential extensive tariffs of US President-elect Donald Trump are only negotiation strategies. This was the key message delivered by Jenny Johnson, CEO of Franklin Templeton, and Anne Walsh, Chief Investment Officer of Guggenheim Partners Investment Management, when they spoke at the event "Women, Money and Power" held by Bloomberg in London on Tuesday. "I think tariffs are still more of a negotiation strategy than the inevitable situation we will see," Walsh said. "I think it will be more targeted." Johnson expressed a similar view, adding that such measures are often "inflationary".The United States will use the proceeds from frozen Russian assets to lend to Ukraine. In October this year, the leaders of the Group of Seven reached a consensus on the details of providing Ukraine with a loan of 50 billion US dollars with the proceeds from frozen Russian assets as collateral. As part of the G-7 loan, the United States promised to grant Ukraine a loan of $20 billion. The Ukrainian cabinet recently issued a resolution saying that it has finalized the details of the loan with the US and approved the relevant loan agreement. Russian Finance Minister Siluanov said last month that since western countries have decided to use Russian assets and income from assets, Russia will also take corresponding actions to freeze the assets of western investors, financial market participants and companies, and will use the income generated from these assets.
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