The second meeting of the Global Foreign Exchange Market Committee in 2024 was successfully held. From December 5 to December 6, 2024, the second meeting of the Global Foreign Exchange Committee (GFXC) in 2024 was held online. The meeting discussed the promotion and implementation of global standards, the second round of three-year review of global standards, the operation of foreign exchange market and related market hot issues. Representatives from China Foreign Exchange Market Steering Committee (CFXC) attended the meeting. This meeting discussed the final results of the second round of three-year review of global standards. The Working Group on Foreign Exchange Settlement Risk and the Working Group on Foreign Exchange Data respectively introduced the final revision suggestions of the relevant provisions of the global standards, and how the Working Group continuously improved according to the public comments and feedback from the local foreign exchange market committees and in October 2024. The revision of the Global Standards aims to strengthen the relevant principles of foreign exchange settlement risk management and enhance the transparency of specific types of foreign exchange transactions and the use of customer-generated data on electronic trading platforms. GFXC members strongly support this.About 200 people have been killed by gang attacks on civilians in Haiti. Recently, a large-scale violence against civilians in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, has killed about 200 people, most of whom are elderly people. Witnesses said that the massacre continued.Xia Yiping, CEO of Extreme Vietnam: The company is experiencing difficulties at present, and the company needs to adjust immediately. On December 11th, it was learned from the inside of Extreme Vietnam Automobile that Xia Yiping, CEO of Extreme Vietnam, communicated with all employees through video conference, frankly indicating that the company is experiencing difficulties at present, and the company needs to adjust immediately and enter the 2.0 stage of entrepreneurship. The management will go all out to tide over the difficulties with all employees. Xia Yiping said that in the new entrepreneurial period, the following four things must be done well: 1. Adhere to the long-term investment in core technologies to maintain the leading edge; 2. Strengthen sales and service capacity building to cope with fierce market competition; 3. Merge departments and posts with duplicate functions and change inefficient internal workflow; 4. Reduce projects that cannot improve financial performance in the short term. (Blue Whale Finance)
Tang Shikai, a member of the board of directors of Mercedes-Benz, will retire next year and is now in charge of the company's business in Greater China. Mercedes-Benz Group Co., Ltd. announced that Hubertus Troska, the current member of the board of directors in charge of the company's business in Greater China, will retire in 2025 as planned. He himself decided to take up a new position as a member of the board of directors of Mercedes-Benz Group Co., Ltd. and a special representative for China affairs from February 1, 2025 to promote the company's business system in the world's largest market. Tang Shikai will officially retire on July 31, 2025.Yuanyuan Communication: The plan being evaluated and negotiated between the company and toy manufacturers does not involve ByteDance, and the results of subsequent negotiations are still uncertain.US Treasury Department: US Treasury Secretary Yellen expressed appreciation for the close communication between the Ministry of Economic Affairs of Korea and the United States after the recent events in South Korea.
Japanese manufacturers' confidence index turned negative to the central bank's forecast in December. A short-term survey in Reuters, Japan, found that Japanese manufacturers' business confidence deteriorated further in December due to concerns about US protectionist policies. The survey of 505 large Japanese non-financial enterprises showed that manufacturers' confidence index fell from 5 in November to -1 in December, which was the first time since last February, and the number of pessimists exceeded optimists for the first time in 10 months. The loss of business confidence may cast a shadow over the Bank of Japan's forecast. The Bank of Japan had previously predicted that a steady recovery driven by rising wages and consumption would help inflation reach the 2% target in a sustainable way and justify further interest rate hikes. Many manufacturing industries have reported that business confidence has declined. Among electronic machinery manufacturers, steel and non-ferrous metal manufacturers, pessimists far exceed optimists.Hengrui Pharma: HRS-4729 injection was approved for clinical trial. Hengrui Pharma announced that the company and its subsidiary Fujian Sheng Di Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. received the Notice of Approval for Clinical Trial of HRS-4729 injection approved and issued by National Medical Products Administration. The drug is a polypeptide drug independently developed, and it is a GLP-1R/GIPR/GCGR triple agonist, which is suitable for obese or overweight patients. Up to now, HRS-4729 injection has invested about 19.56 million yuan in research and development.Expert: Central enterprises will continue to recruit in A-shares. On the evening of December 9, Huada Jiutian, a domestic EDA leader, announced that China Electronic Information Industry Group Co., Ltd. will become the actual controller of the company. So far, the number of A-share listed companies "incorporated" by central enterprises reached 10 in 2024. The end of 2024 is an important node for central enterprises to optimize the layout of listed platforms. The Work Plan for Improving the Quality of Listed Companies Controlled by Central Enterprises previously issued by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council made it clear that the adjustment and revitalization of the listing platform should be basically completed by the end of 2024, and it is supported to revitalize through absorption and merger, asset restructuring and cross-market operation, or to withdraw through free transfer and equity transfer, so as to further focus on the main business and advantageous areas. Looking forward to the next layout rhythm of central enterprises in the capital market, many experts interviewed by reporters believe that the pace of "recruiting" of central enterprises in A shares will continue. In the coming period, the cases of central enterprises strengthening their main business through capital operation and giving play to their strategic support and industrial leading functions will be on the rise. (shanghai securities news)