Hang Seng Index fell 0.2%, led by Meituan. The Hang Seng Index fell 0.2% to 20,278.66 in Hong Kong for two consecutive days. Meituan dragged down the index the most, falling by 1.7%. Chuangke Industrial Co., Ltd. suffered the biggest decline, falling by 4.1%. In midday trading, 33 of the 83 stocks fell and 46 rose; Three of the four stocks fell, led by industrial and commercial stocks.Musk said that if Tesla becomes the world's number one market value, Bill Gates will go bankrupt. Elon Musk wrote on the X platform that if Tesla's share price continues to rise to a certain level, the global shorts will be eliminated, even including Bill Gates, once the richest man in the world. Musk said: "If Tesla does become the most valuable company in the world so far, then short positions will bankrupt Bill Gates."IDF: Two rockets fired from Gaza not long ago landed in an open area, causing no damage.
At midday, the main contract of alumina futures opened lower, and now it is down nearly 3% to 5101 yuan/ton. In the news, according to Shanghai Nonferrous Metals, on December 10th, 30,000 tons of alumina was sold overseas, with a transaction price of $680/mt FOB Western Australia, and the shipping date was in late January/early February.An increase of 91.3%! In the first 11 months, there were more than 33.1 million people entering and leaving Shanghai port. Since last year, China has successively introduced or resumed various visa-free policies, and the level of entry and exit facilitation has been continuously improved. From January to November this year, Shanghai Border Inspection Station inspected 247,000 inbound and outbound means of transport at Shanghai Port, and inspected more than 33.1 million passengers, up 43.6% and 91.3% respectively over the same period last year. (CCTV News)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.
Hong Kong stocks continued to fall in the afternoon, and the Hang Seng Science and Technology Index fell by 1%, which once rose by more than 1%. The Hang Seng Index fell 0.5%.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)The Central Finger Research Institute: In November, the price of second-hand houses in Beijing narrowed by 0.17 percentage points from the previous month. On December 11th, the Central Finger Research Institute released a map of the price of second-hand houses in the top ten cities in November 2024, showing that in November 2024, 18,763 sets of second-hand houses were sold in Beijing, up 8% from the previous month and 49.6% from the same period last year. The cumulative turnover from January to November increased by 8.2% compared with the same period last year. In terms of price, in November, the price of second-hand housing in Beijing fell by 0.12% month-on-month, narrowing by 0.17 percentage points from the previous month.