Spot palladium fell more than 2.00% in the day and is now reported at $957.09 per ounce.Kaitou Macro: There is no end in sight for the industrial difficulties in the euro zone. Jack Allen-Reynolds, a macro economist at Kaitou, said in a report that the stagnation of industrial production in the euro zone in October shows that its industrial sector is still weak and will continue to struggle. In fact, he said, without Ireland's data, the G-20' s constant production data would look much worse, or it would drop by 0.5% month-on-month, while Ireland's data is notoriously unstable. Allen-Reynolds said that the output in October excluding Ireland decreased by 2.8% compared with the same period of last year, which was 18% lower than the output level of energy-intensive industries before the outbreak of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. He said that automobile production is 17% lower than the pre-epidemic level. Although the production performance of other industries is not so bad, the latest survey shows that the overall industrial production continues to decline.Morgan Stanley raised Broadcom target price from $180.00 to $233.00.
Jiangxi released a typical case of private equity funds serving the real economy. In recent years, private equity investment institutions have condensed long-term innovative capital and continuously empowered high-quality development. On December 13th, Wan Liangshun, deputy director of the Financial Office of Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee and deputy director of the Provincial Local Financial Administration Bureau, released ten cases of private equity funds serving Jiangxi real economy at the 2024 Yangtze River Economic Belt (Gongqingcheng) Fund Innovation and Development Conference held in Gongqingcheng, Jiangxi. Wan Liangshun introduced that Jiangxi attaches great importance to the development of the private equity industry and clearly requires strengthening guidance to give full play to the role of private equity investment in promoting development. There are 1493 private equity funds in Jiangxi, with an investment of 186.175 billion yuan. Private equity funds have become an important force to attract external capital, help industrial transformation and serve local economy, and the province's fund innovation and development have achieved remarkable results. (SSE)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.Canada asked the Labor Committee to put Canadian postal workers back to work.
For the first time since November 2022, the yield of 10-year US Treasury bonds has exceeded the yield of 3-month US Treasury bonds.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.Unitedhealth group, USA: The suspect in the executive shooting was not a corporate client. On December 13th, a spokesman for unitedhealth group said that Luigi Man Ghione, the suspect in the shooting of Brian Thompson, CEO of United Health Insurance Company, was not a corporate client. Andrew Vitti, CEO of unitedhealth group, expressed his condolences over Thompson's murder in a commentary and said that he understood the public's dissatisfaction with the "defective" health care system in the United States. Vitti said: "Health care is both a personal matter and very complicated. People don't fully understand the reasons behind the underwriting decision, and we are responsible for it. We need to work with employers, governments and other people who pay for medical expenses to improve the way we explain insurance coverage and make decisions. "
Strategy guide 12-14
Strategy guide 12-14
Strategy guide