Industrial integration has injected new vitality, and the activity of mergers and acquisitions has increased. The data shows that since the beginning of this year, a total of 132 A-share companies have issued announcements related to mergers and acquisitions, compared with 82 in the same period last year. Among them, since the release of "Six Articles on Mergers and Acquisitions", nearly 50 listed companies have issued relevant announcements on mergers and acquisitions, and the process of mergers and acquisitions of listed companies has accelerated. Experts said that under the impetus of policies, the activity of mergers and acquisitions has been significantly improved, and industrial integration has become the main logic of mergers and acquisitions. Listed companies can seize the favorable opportunity of capital operation to promote mergers and acquisitions, which can quickly broaden their business fields, enrich their product matrix and achieve greater and stronger results.The battery company ACC, a joint venture between Mercedes-Benz and Stellantis, reiterated that plans for factories in Germany and Italy will be announced in the first half of next year. On December 10th, local time, ACC, a joint venture between Stellantis, Mercedes-Benz and Total Energy, said that the company reiterated that it would announce its plans for factories in Italy and Germany in the first half of next year. ACC said in June this year that the construction of its factories in Kaiserslautern, Germany and Termoli, Italy, would be put on hold due to the slow sales of electric vehicles and concerns about costs. The estimated total investment of these two super factories is about 5 billion euros.Many European countries suspended the acceptance of Syrian asylum applications. On the occasion of the drastic changes in Syria, many European governments announced on the 9 th that they would suspend the acceptance of Syrian citizens' asylum applications. According to media reports, countries that have announced the suspension of accepting applications include Germany, Austria, Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Italy. The Greek government is scheduled to meet on the 13th and then announce the final decision. Germany has now taken in nearly one million Syrians, the largest in Europe. Syria remains Germany's largest source of refugees this year. According to data from the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees, as of the end of November, more than 72,000 asylum applications were received, of which more than 47,000 had not completed the approval process. The German government said that the suspension of the application will not affect those who have been approved to take refuge in Germany.
Ren Hongbin, president of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, led a delegation to visit Hong Kong. According to the news of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, from December 8 to 10, Ren Hongbin, president of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, led a delegation to visit Hong Kong, attended the joint meeting of the Mainland-Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce in 2024 and delivered a speech at the symposium of foreign business associations and foreign-funded enterprises in Hong Kong, and prepared to hold the second Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Development Business Conference. During his visit, Ren Hongbin met with Lee Ka Chiu John, Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and Qi Bin, Deputy Director of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. He had extensive exchanges with Lin Jianyue, Chairman of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council, and people from the Hong Kong business community. He had an in-depth exchange of views on deepening economic and trade cooperation between the Mainland and Hong Kong. He went to Jardine Matheson Group, HSBC Group, Swire Group and Cathay Group for investigation, and listened to work reports at the Hong Kong Representative Office of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade and China Patent Agency (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd.Huahong Technology: Liu Weihua, the director, plans to reduce 0.52% of the company's shares. Huahong Technology announced that Liu Weihua, the company's director and senior manager, plans to reduce his holdings by block trading within three months after 15 trading days from the date of announcement, accounting for 0.52% of the company's total share capital after excluding the number of shares in the special repurchase account. The reason for the reduction is its own capital demand, and the reduction price will be determined according to the secondary market price at the time of reduction. Liu Weihua currently holds 12.546 million shares, accounting for 2.18% of the company's total share capital. The implementation of this reduction plan will not lead to the change of the company's control rights, nor will it have a significant impact on the company's governance structure and sustainable operation.Murdoch, a media tycoon, failed in his attempt to change the family trust. Edmund Gorman, a court Commissioner in Nevada, USA, concluded in a ruling filed on Saturday that Rupert Murdoch should not change his family trust and concentrate the control of his media empire in the hands of his son Lachlan, and that Murdoch showed "malice" in his efforts to modify the irrevocable trust. At present, the trust plan will distribute the control of the company to Rupert Murdoch's four children, Lackland, James, Elizabeth and Prudence, equally after his death.
Dutch International: It is a foregone conclusion that the European Central Bank will cut interest rates by 25bp, and the euro should face another decline. Frantisek Taborsky, an international analyst in the Netherlands, said in a report that the euro may face a new round of decline after a short respite due to position adjustment in recent days. "However, to see more actions here, we must wait until the meeting of the European Central Bank on Thursday, when it should show the next direction." At the meeting of the European Central Bank, it seems a foregone conclusion to cut interest rates by 25 basis points. However, Taborsky said that the press conference may lead to discussions on further interest rate cuts later, which may put pressure on the euro.In order to step up military operations against Syria and expand its long-term strategic advantage, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a speech on the 8th that the drastic changes in the situation in Syria have brought so-called new opportunities and challenges to Israel. The so-called opportunity, according to the analysis of Israeli and Arab media, Israel is taking this opportunity to strengthen and expand its occupation and control of the temporary border areas between the two countries, even on the Syrian side, so as to gain greater strategic advantages over Syria and neighboring countries in the long run. Secondly, Israel can further attack the military targets in Syria and weaken the overall military strength of Syria. Thirdly, Israel believes that the drastic changes in the Syrian situation have objectively blocked Iran's way of providing assistance to Hezbollah, seriously weakened Iran's influence in the region, and helped it to further exert pressure on Hezbollah and Hamas armed forces in Gaza.Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau: If Trump imposes a 25% tariff, Canada will take countermeasures. Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau said on Monday that if US President-elect Trump imposes a 25% tariff on goods imported from Canada, Ottawa will also take tariff measures to fight back. Trudeau said at an event organized by the Chamber of Commerce in Halifax, Nova Scotia: "Of course, we will respond to unfair tariffs in many ways as we did eight years ago, and we are still studying the appropriate response." The Canadian leader said that there are signs that Americans are "beginning to realize that imposing tariffs on all goods imported from Canada will make the cost of living for Americans much higher".
Strategy guide 12-13
Strategy guide
Strategy guide
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