Moon Jae in: Impeachment is inevitable, and the candidate for acting president should be established as soon as possible. On the 11th local time, former South Korean President Moon Jae in posted on social media that impeachment is an inevitable way out at this stage. South Korea should establish a candidate for acting president as soon as possible to ensure that the political situation in South Korea returns to normal. (CCTV News)Wang Tao, UBS: It is expected that the Central Economic Work Conference will focus on the short-term policy package. Recently, the market highly expects the Central Economic Work Conference to guide the high-quality economic development of China next year. Wang Tao, head of Asian economic research at UBS and chief China economist, said: "I expect that the Central Economic Work Conference may focus on the short-term policy package in 2025 and 2026, but it will also emphasize accelerating some reform measures already outlined at the Third Plenary Session." Wang Tao believes that the next important reform measures may include providing better protection and access for the private economy, deepening the reform of state-owned enterprises to improve efficiency and governance, promoting household registration reform to improve the welfare of migrant workers, strengthening the social security network, and carrying out fiscal and taxation reforms to solve local fiscal revenue problems. "I think structural, deeper and faster reforms will be very important, not only to attract foreign investment, but also to boost domestic confidence." (China Daily)Barclays lowered its target share price of Nike from $81 to $79.
The Philippine stock index fell 1% to 6,656.39.Sanofi flu and COVID-19 vaccine get FDA fast track.Alibaba Cloud will build new data centers in five overseas countries. On December 11th, Yuan Qian, president of Alibaba Cloud Intelligent International, revealed that in the next three years, Alibaba Cloud will invest in new data centers in five countries around the world, which are located in South Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Mexico, and will further increase localized services and ecosystem construction. At present, Alibaba Cloud operates 85 available zones in 28 regions around the world, covering Chinese mainland, Hongkong, Southeast Asia, Japan and South Korea, the Middle East and Europe and America.
The commercial chain plate continued to rise, and Zhijia actually had a daily limit in the afternoon. Youa shares and Yimin Group had previously had daily limit, while Doctor Glasses, Commodity City and Chongqing Department Store followed suit.Luckin Coffee will open seven stores in Hong Kong, and Luckin Coffee will further implement its plan to enter Hong Kong and open seven branches. Among them, Shop A16C-A, underground of New City, Sai Yeung Choi South Street, Mong Kok, covers an area of about 398 square feet. At present, the shop has been boarded up and is under renovation. An agent estimates that the monthly lease is HK$ 120,000. The other six branches are located in Miramar Plaza in Tsim Sha Tsui, MCP New Capital Center in Tseung Kwan O, Shatin Center, Festival Walk in Kowloon Tong, Des Voeux Road Central in Sheung Wan and Ho Man Tin.Scott Richardson, Chief Operating Officer of Celanese, will be promoted to CEO. Celanese, a chemical company, announced on December 10th local time that Scott Richardson, the current Chief Operating Officer of Celanese, has been appointed as CEO since January 1st, 2025, and will join the board of directors of the company. Richardson will succeed Lori Ryerkerk, who will resign as president, CEO and Celanese director at the end of the year. Edward Galante has been elected as an independent director of Celanese since 2013, and he will be the chairman of Celanese board, which will take effect after Ryerkerk leaves office.