Survey: Most Japanese companies expect Trump 2.0 to damage the business environment. According to a survey in Reuters, nearly three-quarters of Japanese companies expect Trump's second US presidency to have a negative impact on the business environment of Japanese companies. The reasons for concern include the planned tariff increase and trade tensions. The manager of a machinery manufacturer wrote in the survey: "It is difficult to predict his policies, which makes it difficult for our client company to make investment decisions"; Although 73% of the respondents said that Trump's second entry into the White House will not have a favorable impact on their business environment, the rest of the respondents expect a positive impact, including the expectation that domestic demand in the United States will expand through tax cuts, and energy and environmental policies may also be revised; When asked what measures they would take if Trump raised tariffs, two-thirds of the respondents said their business strategy was unlikely to change, 22% said they would cut costs, and 8% said they would work hard to expand their cultivation in markets outside the United States.Australia's unemployment rate in November was 3.93%, which is estimated to be 4.2%.The law enforcement agencies of China and the Philippines cooperated again to repatriate more than 30 Philippine citizens engaged in offshore gambling in the Philippines. On December 12, the law enforcement agencies of China and the Philippines cooperated again to repatriate more than 30 China citizens engaged in offshore gambling in the Philippines. This is the fourth batch of repatriation between China and the Philippines after the Philippine government announced a total ban on offshore gambling in the Philippines. The Philippine Embassy in the Philippines will continue to strengthen law enforcement cooperation with the Philippine side and promote the orderly repatriation of relevant personnel on the basis of protecting the legitimate rights and interests of China citizens.
South Korean President Yin Xiyue: The opposition party tried to paralyze the government. The opposition tried to get me out of office.The New Zealand dollar just broke through the 0.5800 mark against the US dollar, and the latest report was 0.5801, up 0.29% in the day; The Australian dollar just broke through the 0.6400 mark against the US dollar, and the latest report was 0.6401, up 0.51% in the day.South Korean President Yin Xiyue: The purpose of the opposition's impeachment is to evade the legal responsibility of its leader Li Zaiming by holding an early general election.
The tenth batch of national procurement officially opened, and the number of enterprises and varieties involved reached a record high. The tenth batch of centralized drug procurement organized by the state officially accepted the application materials of enterprises at 8: 00 this morning at No.398 Zhanyuan Road, Nanqiao New Town, Fengxian District, Shanghai. This centralized procurement involved 62 varieties and 263 product specifications, and the number of enterprises and varieties involved reached a record high. Among them, 33 enterprises competed for nine short-listed oral sustained-release formulations of sitagliptin. There are also a number of varieties that are billions in the market of public hospitals, such as doxorubicin hydrochloride liposome injection, cefoperazone injection, piperacillin injection, compound α -ketoacid oral sustained-release dosage form, norepinephrine injection and aspirin oral sustained-release dosage form. The sales scale in sample hospitals last year all exceeded 2 billion yuan. Hengrui Pharma, Kelun Pharmaceutical, Unacon and Zhengda Tianqing participated with many varieties. Note: According to the tenth batch of national adoption documents released before, the tenth batch of national adoption rules have changed a lot, such as canceling the protection mechanism of 50% price reduction and increasing the fuse recovery mechanism by 1.8 times, and the number of B-certified enterprises affects the number of final finalists.All localities have actively deployed resources to further support mergers and acquisitions and guide them to gather in a "new" way. Since this year, there have been frequent policies to support mergers and acquisitions of enterprises, such as Eight Measures on Deepening science and technology innovation board's Reform, Serving Technological Innovation and Developing New Productivity, and Opinions on Deepening Market Reform of Mergers and Acquisitions of Listed Companies. At the same time, various localities have successively issued relevant rules or carried out special activities, so that mergers and acquisitions of enterprises have a direction and confidence. According to the reporter, up to now, Shanghai, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Shenzhen, Tianjin and other places have issued relevant documents to support enterprises to carry out mergers and acquisitions; Shanxi, Beijing, Hubei, Hunan, Qingdao and other places "answer questions" for enterprises' mergers and acquisitions through forums or training meetings. According to Tian Lihui, dean of the Institute of Financial Development of Nankai University, there are three major trends in local support policies. First, the logic of industrial synergy is constantly strengthening; Second, continue to improve the efficiency of M&A services and regulatory inclusiveness; The third is to persist in strengthening risk prevention. Generally speaking, with the support of policies, a number of high-quality industrial M&A cases are expected to land. Driven by multiple favorable factors, the M&A market is becoming more and more active. (Securities Daily)High-word-of-mouth movies rush to the box office at the end of the year. The Spring Festival file in 2025 is expected to usher in a strong performance. According to the data of Lighthouse Professional Edition, as of December 11 (17: 40), the cumulative box office of 20 movies in 2024 has reached 1.119 billion yuan. Among them, "Good Things" has a box office of 569 million yuan and a douban score of 9.1, which leads both word-of-mouth and box office. In addition, this week's three potential new films, Broken Hell, Misjudgment and Lion Boy 2, have been screened and entered the box office sprint at the end of the year. It is also known that four films, Nezha's Devil Children Roaring the Sea, The Legend of the Condor Heroes: The Great Man, The Fortunes of the Gods Part II: The War in the West, The Bear Appears and Restarts the Future, have been confirmed to be scheduled for the Spring Festival in 2025. The "National Film Consumption Season for the benefit of the people" launched by the State Film Bureau on December 9 will last from December 2024 to February 2025, and a total of not less than 600 million yuan will be invested in movie viewing subsidies, covering the Lunar New Year and Spring Festival files, which will help promote the market's enthusiasm for watching movies. Huatai Securities released a research report saying that the box office of the Spring Festival in 2025 is expected to usher in a strong performance. In 2025, the supply and demand sides of the film market are expected to improve, or will push the fundamental inflection point of the cinema line plate upward. (Securities Daily)