Reuters survey: In December, the Bank of England decided to keep interest rates unchanged or cut interest rates by 100 basis points next year. All 71 economists surveyed during December 6-11 predicted that the Bank of England would keep its target interest rate unchanged at 4.75% at its meeting on December 19. Among the economists who predict the interest rate outlook until the end of 2025, about 54% (36 out of 67) expect to cut interest rates by 100 basis points by the end of next year, another 17 expect to cut interest rates by at least 125 basis points, and 14 expect to cut interest rates by at most 75 basis points.Market information: The major shareholders of Hershey, an American chocolate manufacturer, will reject the takeover proposal of Yizi International, thinking that the other party's offer is too low.Huadong Pharmaceutical has established a new company in Jiaxing with a registered capital of 60 million yuan. According to Tianyancha App, Huadong Pharmaceutical (Jiaxing) Co., Ltd. was recently established with Zhu Li as its legal representative and a registered capital of 60 million yuan. Its business scope includes drug wholesale, drug retail, decoction service for Chinese herbal pieces, third-class medical device operation, drug Internet information service, drug import and export, third-class medical device rental and medical device Internet information service. According to shareholder information, the company is wholly owned by Huadong Pharmaceutical (000963).
Google Cloud officially opened the sixth generation of TPU Trillium to customers, and Google Cloud released a blog post on December 11th announcing the official opening of the sixth generation of TPU Trillium to customers, hoping to better promote the development of AI model with its large computing power, efficient performance and sustainable characteristics. It is reported that Trillium TPU is a key component of Google Cloud AI Hypercomputer, and it is a breakthrough supercomputer architecture, which adopts an integrated system composed of performance-optimized hardware, open software, leading machine learning framework and flexible consumption model.The OpenAI webpage shows that API, ChatGPT and Sora are all running normally.President of Hilton Asia Pacific: India's outbound travel will be the story of the next decade. According to the data of the World Tourism and Travel Council, in 2023, Indian tourists spent $34.2 billion on outbound travel. Allen Watts, president of Hilton Asia Pacific, said that compared with the future, the current level of Indian outbound travel consumption is "negligible". "The story of India is unfolding before us," he said. "India's outbound travel will be the story of the next decade." According to the World Tourism and Travel Council's Economic Impact in 2024 report, by 2034, the outbound spending of Indian tourists is expected to more than double, reaching 76.8 billion US dollars, which will make India's position in the global tourism consumption country rise from the 12th in 2023 to the 7th.
During the "slimming" of the brokerage business department, more than 100 companies were cancelled during the year, and the competition turned to differentiated services. The brokerage business of brokerage companies is welcoming a new round of changes. In the past few days, a number of brokers have announced the cancellation of their relevant business departments. According to the reporter's incomplete statistics, in the past two weeks, many brokers such as Nanjing Securities, Guosen Securities and Pacific Securities announced that they would "streamline" their business departments. Looking at it for a long time, more than 35 brokers have issued announcements during the year, "downsizing" hundreds of business departments. Insiders pointed out that the traditional offline outlet business development model has increasingly shown drawbacks and high cost pressure; At the same time, more and more customers rely on online transactions and mobile terminal transactions, so it is imperative to "streamline" the business department to reduce costs and increase efficiency. Future competition depends more on differentiated financial management and trading services. (Shell Finance)Zhongzhiwei Technology completed tens of millions of yuan financing. On December 12th, Nanjing Zhongzhiwei Information Technology Co., Ltd. (Zhongzhiwei Technology) completed tens of millions of yuan B1 financing, which was jointly invested by Guangzhou Baiyun Financial Holding Group Co., Ltd. and Beijing Hongfeng Private Equity Fund Management Co., Ltd. This round of financing funds will be used for iterative application of AI+ network security products, breakthrough in key industry landing scenarios and market channel construction. Zhongzhiwei Technology is a solution provider of "city-level data+digital security operation", and has launched a series of new platform-based network security products around AISecOps (artificial intelligence security operation).More than 83,000 outdoor base stations have been built in Shanghai, and the China 5G Development Conference opened in Shanghai on the morning of December 12th. Chen Jie, vice mayor of Shanghai, revealed in his speech at the meeting that at present, Shanghai has built more than 83,000 outdoor 5G base stations and more than 10,000 3c5g-a base stations, which are at the leading level in China. Chen Jie said that facing the future, Shanghai will co-ordinate scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, seize the development opportunities of 5G and 5G-A, 6G, promote the construction of public service platforms in the communication industry, support enterprises to carry out research and development, test and verification, standard formulation and application demonstration of key technologies in the new generation of communication industry, and especially promote the construction and application of 5G-A synaesthesia integrated base stations to help the development of the communication industry in light of the development needs of new industries such as intelligent networked cars and low-altitude economy.