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Yin Xiyue stayed in the office for 30 minutes and then returned to her residence. (Yonhap News Agency)Musk is worth $447 billion, nearly $200 billion behind Bezos. Tesla shares rose 5.9% on Wednesday to close at $424.77, a record high, surpassing the previous record of $409.97 set on November 4, 2021. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Musk's worth soared by $62.8 billion overnight to $447 billion, making him the first super-rich man on earth with a net worth of over $400 billion. Musk's current net worth is nearly $200 billion higher than that of the second-ranked Jeff Bezos, who is worth about $249 billion.Summary of Hong Kong stock announcements, Small Vegetable Garden: It is planned to sell about 101 million shares worldwide, and it is expected to be listed on December 20. BOSS direct employment -W: The operating profit in the third quarter increased by 26.5%, and the monthly active users increased by 30%. BAIC Investment and Hyundai Motor injected US$ 1.095 billion into Beijing Hyundai in proportion. China Pacific Insurance: Pacific Life Insurance's premium income from January to November was 228.842 billion yuan. Year-on-year growth of 2.2% Hong Kong Science and Technology Exploration: In November, the total merchandise transaction volume of orders reached HK$ 687 million. SJM Holdings: It plans to acquire new quality digital technology in Hengqin New District, Zhuhai City for 546 million yuan. It plans to discount about 7.89% and place up to 800 million shares. Net raised HK$ 530 million. Kyle Digital Technology: It is planned to allocate a total of 212 million shares at a discount of about 15.38% to raise HK$ 210 million. Mongolian Mining: It is planned to spend US$ 20.5 million to acquire Mongolian copper exploration company and expand diversified mineral business. CGNPC New Energy: In November, the power generation was 1,360.8 GW, a year-on-year decrease of 18%.

On the morning of December 12, 2024, the People's Court of Tongcheng County, Hubei Province publicly pronounced the case of Liu Gang, the former full-time vice chairman of Chengdu Football Association, for corruption, bribery and unit bribery, and sentenced the defendant Liu Gang to seven years in prison for corruption and fined 400,000 yuan. Sentenced to two years in prison for accepting bribes and fined 200,000 yuan; He was sentenced to one year's imprisonment and fined RMB 100,000 for bribery by a company, and decided to execute eight years' imprisonment and fined RMB 700,000. The property obtained from corruption shall be recovered according to law and returned to the injured unit respectively; The property obtained by taking bribes shall be recovered according to law and turned over to the state treasury.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.Google executives: Search for artificial intelligence is the biggest bet, with an estimated investment of 50 billion yuan in 2024. ruth porat, president and chief investment officer of Google, revealed at a conference that Google's biggest bet is to apply artificial intelligence to search business. Despite the problems of technical competition and artificial intelligence model, Google is still firmly pushing forward this strategy. Polat emphasized that integrating artificial intelligence into search business is Google's current core strategy. Google has introduced an overview of AI into the search tool, added advertisements to it, and introduced shopping advertisements to Google Lens. Despite the existence of false or misleading results such as artificial intelligence illusion, Google is still optimistic about the development potential of artificial intelligence in the search field. In addition to the search business, Polat also pointed out that Google Cloud is another important investment of the company. When answering a question about whether Google's investment cost in artificial intelligence will follow the industry trend, Polat said that artificial intelligence represents "an opportunity for generations". She revealed that Google plans to spend $50 billion on chips, data centers and other capital expenditures in 2024, but stressed that Google will make careful bets based on the results.

MediaTek will enter the supply chain of Apple's main hardware products for the first time. It is reported that Apple intends to significantly upgrade the functions of Apple Watch next year, and ask MediaTek for help. MediaTek will provide some new data computer chips of Apple Watch to share the orders originally supplied by Intel. This is the first time that MediaTek has entered Apple's main hardware product supply chain. In this regard, MediaTek said that he would not comment on the relevant order information. (Taiwan Province Economic Daily)South Korea's Seoul Composite Index rose to 1%.CICC looks forward to the insurance industry in 2025: investment opportunities may be easy first and then difficult. When CICC looks forward to the insurance industry in 2025, it said that it is expected that the stock market and policy expectations will still be the short-term main drivers of the stock price of the sector. Combined with the low profit base and the possible window period, the investment opportunities in the industry may be easy first and then difficult: the short-term stock market will rise sharply or reproduce the general market, and the investment logic will return to long-term contradictions such as interest rate trends after emotional calm.