Survey: More than 40% of analysts expect the Bank of Japan to raise interest rates this month, but most think that January next year is the best time. According to the latest survey, observers of the Bank of Japan predict that January is the most likely time to raise interest rates next time, but more than 40% of the respondents still expect to take action next week. According to the survey, about 52% of the 52 economists surveyed expect the Bank of Japan to raise the policy interest rate from 0.25% in January, compared with 32% in the last survey. About 44% of the respondents expect the central bank to take action at the end of the two-day meeting on December 19, down from 53% in the last survey. The survey results show that observers believe that the Bank of Japan's policy meeting this month is likely to move or not to move to a large extent. About 88% of the respondents said that the earliest possible time to raise interest rates in their risk scenarios is next week. Another equally high data shows that Japan's economic and price environment will justify raising interest rates this month.The personal pension system has been extended to the whole country. On December 12th, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and other five departments issued the Notice on the Full Implementation of the Personal Pension System. Since December 15th, the personal pension system has been extended to the whole country from 36 pilot cities (regions). (Xinhua News Agency)The British authorities confiscated 110 million yuan of assets of Hongtong criminal Tian Wenjun, and the British authorities confiscated 110 million yuan of assets of Hongtong criminal Tian Wenjun. On December 10, the National Bureau for Combating Crime (NCA) of the United Kingdom issued an announcement, officially confiscating 12 million pounds (about 110 million yuan) of assets of China citizens Tian Wenjun and Hao Jiangbo in the United Kingdom, including two luxury houses in the suburbs of hampstead, London, two student apartments in Coventry and funds in several bank accounts. However, these assets account for less than 1% of the officially recognized crime proceeds of the Tian couple in China. NCA formally filed a case with the Queen's Bench Court of the British High Court on November 26th, and applied for approval of the civil recovery orders against Tian Wenjun and Hao Jiangbo. This means that the loan fraudsters Tian and his wife, who are wanted by the China police and have absconded in the UK for five years, need not be convicted, and their unexplained assets in the UK will be confiscated. (Caixin. com)
Ma Huateng: Contributing to the economic recovery, Ma Huateng said in People's Daily that Tencent, as a digital technology enterprise, actively responded to the deployment of the country to expand domestic demand and actively explored the development of digital consumption. By optimizing consumer tools such as WeChat payment, the company tries to create and serve effective demand and promote economic cycle by testing the e-commerce business such as live delivery of water video numbers. At the same time, Tencent relies on the WeChat ecosystem to enhance the absorption and friendliness of employment and entrepreneurship. Last year, it provided employment income opportunities for more than 50 million people. In the future, Tencent will also increase investment, devote itself to technological innovation and industrial upgrading, and jointly contribute to the stable and healthy development of China's economy with the vast number of private enterprises. (People's Network)According to the data released by Shanghai Steel Union, the price of battery-grade lithium carbonate (in early trading) was the same as that of the previous day, with an average price of 76,450 yuan/ton.Meitu, a Hong Kong stock company, rose more than 10% in intraday trading, with turnover exceeding HK$ 400 million.
The turnover of Shanghai and Shenzhen stock markets exceeded 1 trillion for the 52nd consecutive trading day, exceeding 10 billion compared with yesterday.Tsinghua University National Key Laboratory Base was established in Changping National Heavy Base at the end of the first phase. At present, Changping District is cooperating with Tsinghua University to build Tsinghua Nankou National Heavy Base, revitalizing the industrial remains of the "three major factories" in Nankou Town through urban renewal, and undertaking more than 14 national key laboratories in Tsinghua University. It is expected to be put into use in 2025, which will be the largest and most concentrated national key laboratory research base outside the main campus of Tsinghua University. Among them, two laboratories, Intelligent Green Vehicle and Transportation and New Power Operation and Control, will be completed and unveiled at the end of December this year. (Beijing Daily)Zou Yingguang, General Manager of CITIC Securities: It is expected that the demand for cross-border investment and financing at home and abroad will be further released. At the investor open day of CITIC Securities in 2024, Zou Yingguang, General Manager of CITIC Securities, said that the demand for two-way cross-border investment and financing is very strong, whether it is a China enterprise "going abroad" or an overseas investor "coming to China". Among them, with the rapid evolution of China's new open economic system, cross-border finance will usher in greater development space, and securities companies will be in cross-border finance. In the medium and long term, China's macro securitization rate is still accelerating, the internationalization of Chinese-funded enterprises will continue to increase, and the opening up of China's capital market will continue to increase. It is expected that the demand for cross-border investment and financing from domestic and foreign customers will be further released.