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China Automotive Power Battery Industry Innovation Alliance: In November, the sales volume of power batteries in China increased by 29.7% year-on-year. According to the monthly information of power batteries in November 2024 released by China Automotive Power Battery Industry Innovation Alliance, the sales volume of power batteries and other batteries in China was 118.3GWh in November, up by 7.2% month-on-month and 40.1% year-on-year. Among them, the sales volume of power batteries was 87.8GWh, accounting for 74.2% of the total sales volume, up 10.9% from the previous month and 29.7% from the same period last year. The sales volume of other batteries was 30.5GWh, accounting for 25.8% of the total sales volume, down 2.2% from the previous month and up 82.3% year-on-year. From January to November, the cumulative sales volume of power and other batteries in China was 914.3GWh, a cumulative year-on-year increase of 42.8%. Among them, the cumulative sales of power batteries was 692.3GWh, accounting for 75.7% of the total sales, with a cumulative year-on-year increase of 27.1%; The cumulative sales volume of other batteries was 222.0GWh, accounting for 24.3% of the total sales volume, with a cumulative year-on-year increase of 132.5%.Sichuan issued 30-year ordinary special local bonds, with a scale of 35.4 billion yuan, an issue interest rate of 2.2000%, a marginal multiple of 1.58 times and an expected multiple of 2.19.Officials said that fighting broke out between the forces of Jubaland and the federal government in Somalia.

Lian Ping, president of the Chief Industry Research Institute of Guangkai, believes that it is expected to reduce the RRR by about 100 basis points in 2025, releasing more than 3 trillion yuan of liquidity. Among them, there is limited room for reducing the deposit reserve ratio of small and medium-sized financial institutions, and the expected RRR reduction is about 50 basis points.Jin Guanping, Economic Daily: Implement more active and promising macro policies. The article points out that the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee held a meeting on December 9 to analyze and study the economic work in 2025, and put forward "implement more active and promising macro policies" and "strengthen unconventional countercyclical adjustment" in view of the macro policy orientation next year, and clearly implement more active fiscal policies and moderately loose monetary policies. This important deployment has released a clear signal of strengthening macro-control and strong and steady growth. Implementing a "more active" fiscal policy means increasing fiscal countercyclical adjustment and improving the effectiveness of fiscal policy while maintaining policy stability and continuity. "Moderately loose" means that monetary policy will better reflect the supportive stance and orientation, maintain a reasonable and sufficient liquidity, and further reduce the comprehensive financing costs of enterprises and residents.Nikkei futures opened down 95 points at 39,290 on the Singapore Stock Exchange.

General Motors (GM): The unmanned business Cruise and GM Technical team will be merged, and the plan is expected to be completed in the first half of 2025. According to the priority of GM's capital allocation, GM will no longer fund Cruise's self-driving taxi development business.Market information: Trump's nominee for finance minister, Bertrand Besson, said that Federal Reserve Chairman Powell can complete his remaining term.Thirteen people lost contact due to the road collapse in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province. According to the website of the Emergency Management Department on December 11, the the State Council Work Safety Committee issued the Notice on Handling Major Production Safety Accidents on December 10. On December 4, 2024, a major road collapse accident occurred at the construction site of No.5 bid section of Shenjiang Railway in Hangcheng Street, Baoan District, Shenzhen, which has caused 13 people to lose contact. According to the Measures for Handling Major Accidents, the the State Council Safety Committee decided to supervise the handling of this major accident. Guangdong Province should, in accordance with the Regulations on the Reporting, Investigation and Handling of Production Safety Accidents and other relevant laws, regulations and rules, promptly organize accident investigations, quickly identify the cause of accidents, and study and put forward handling opinions in strict accordance with the requirements of accident investigations. Before the accident is closed, the accident investigation report (not finalized) shall be submitted to the the State Council Safety Committee Office for examination and approval, and Guangdong Province shall be responsible for approving the case and announcing it to the public. After the case is closed, the accident investigation report and the implementation of the accident handling decision shall be reported to the the State Council Safety Committee Office for the record.