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On December 11th, it was reported that the U.S. government was divided over the U.S. steel acquisition, and Biden considered blocking the transaction. It was reported that the U.S. Department of Defense, the Ministry of Finance and the State Council all believed that the Japanese Steel Company's $15 billion acquisition of American steel companies would not bring national security risks, but U.S. President Biden was expected to block the transaction. Earlier, some media quoted people familiar with the matter as saying that Biden planned to block the acquisition of American steel companies later this month on the grounds of national security. The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States has been reviewing the proposed acquisition for most of this year, and the group must submit its decision to Biden before December 22 or 23.Guoxuan Hi-Tech: China, the strategic shareholder, continued to give up voting rights. Guoxuan Hi-Tech announced that Guoxuan Holdings, Li Zhen and Jerry Lee (collectively referred to as the "founding shareholders") and China, the strategic shareholder of the company, signed a Supplementary Agreement on the Shareholders' Agreement of Guoxuan Hi-Tech Co., Ltd., and Volkswagen China agreed to extend the commitment period of giving up voting rights. That is to say, within 72 months after the relevant shares of the company involved in the non-public offering and share transfer are registered in the name of Volkswagen China or within a longer period determined by Volkswagen China, it will irrevocably give up the voting rights of some of its shares in the company, so that the voting rights of Volkswagen China will be at least 5% lower than that of the founding shareholder. Volkswagen China's extension of the period of giving up its voting rights commitment this time will not lead to the change of the company's control rights and will not affect the normal production and operation of the company. Mr. Li Zhen remains the actual controller of the company.Guoxuan Hi-Tech: It plans to invest a total of 2.514 billion euros to build new energy battery production bases in Slovakia and Morocco. Guoxuan Hi-Tech announced that the company plans to invest in Slovakia with its own and self-raised funds to build high-performance lithium batteries and supporting projects with an annual output of 20GWh, with a total investment of no more than 1.234 billion euros. On the same day, it was announced that the company plans to invest in Morocco with its own and self-raised funds to build a high-performance lithium battery and supporting projects with an annual output of 20GWh, with a total investment of no more than 1.28 billion euros.

Tang Lin, a former director-level cadre of the Higher People's Court of Guizhou Province, held a trial in the first instance. On December 12, 2024, the Intermediate People's Court of tongren city, Guizhou Province held a trial in the first instance to hear the case of Tang Lin, a former director-level cadre of the Higher People's Court of Guizhou Province. Tongren city People's Procuratorate prosecuted the charges: During 2012-2023, defendant Tang Lin took advantage of his position as President of Liupanshui Intermediate People's Court, Vice President of Guizhou Higher People's Court, Director of Legal Affairs Office of Guizhou Provincial People's Government, Executive Vice President of Guizhou Higher People's Court, and the convenience of his authority and position to help relevant units and individuals in handling cases, and illegally accepted other people's property totaling RMB 21.47 million. From December 2007 to January 2011, Tang Lin took advantage of his position as the president of Liupanshui Intermediate People's Court to facilitate the illegal possession of public property with others, totaling RMB 660,000, of which RMB 330,000 was shared by individuals. The public prosecution agency requested Tang Lin to be investigated for criminal responsibility for accepting bribes and corruption. (Dynamic and static Guizhou)Enterprise IT Expenditure Survey: Google Cloud is expected to be the first choice for 50% of the respondents. Tae Kim, a science and technology columnist, wrote that according to a recent survey, Google Cloud has risen rapidly in the enterprise AI expenditure competition and may become the winner. According to the 2025 CIO survey released by Piper Sandler, 81 CIOs were asked about their budget priorities in different suppliers and technical fields. According to the survey, 87% of CIOs surveyed expect to increase the IT budget in 2025, which is the highest proportion of the survey since 2020. In this survey, the status of Google Cloud has risen significantly, surpassing Microsoft and OpenAI to become the "most strategic" AI supplier, with a support rate of 27%, a significant increase from 15% six months ago. Relatively speaking, Microsoft's support rate dropped from 33% to 24%. When asked which cloud company they plan to use to test or implement AI projects next year, 50% of the respondents chose Google Cloud, making it the top AI infrastructure provider. In addition, Harsh Kumar, a Piper semiconductor analyst, pointed out that these results are also beneficial to Invista, because all cloud companies are the main buyers of AI chips in NVIDIA. Kumar estimates that the entire AI chip market will have more than $500 billion in business opportunities by 2028.The European Central Bank announced that it would cut three key interest rates in the euro zone. On the 12th local time, the European Central Bank held a monetary policy meeting at its headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany, and decided to cut all three key interest rates by 25 basis points. This is also the fourth time that the European Central Bank cut interest rates this year after it announced a rate cut in June this year. According to the latest interest rate resolution announced by the European Central Bank, the deposit mechanism interest rate is reduced to 3.0%, the main refinancing interest rate is reduced to 3.15%, and the marginal lending interest rate is reduced to 3.40%. (CCTV News)

Real estate stocks are active again and again. Huayuan Real Estate and Qixia Construction both have daily limit, while Huayuan Real Estate, Qixia Construction, Xinhualian and Xinhuangpu have daily limit, while Suzhou Gaoxin, China Wuyi and Shahe shares have followed suit.The largest automobile ro-ro terminal on the Yangtze River trunk line was officially put into operation in Suzhou. On December 12th, Haitong Taicang Automobile Terminal, the largest automobile ro-ro terminal on the Yangtze River trunk line, was officially opened for production and operation. On the same day, three ro-ro ships docked at Haitong Wharf, and more than 3,300 cars were loaded on board and sent to Mexico, Peru, South Korea, Guatemala and other countries. The coastline of Haitong Taicang Automobile Terminal is 708 meters long, and it can berth two foreign trade ro-ro ships of 70,000 tons and one domestic trade ro-ro ship of 3000 tons at the same time. The land area of the yard is 860,000 square meters, the number of parking spaces is 32,000, and the designed annual automobile throughput is 1.3 million.The main fuel contract rose by 6.00% in the day and is now reported at 3249.00 yuan/ton.