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Wal-Mart Financial Technology Company is valued at $2.5 billion, and retailers inject a lot of cash.China Chengtong and China Yizhong set up an enterprise management center with a capital contribution of 6.25 billion yuan. According to Tianyancha App, Zhongcheng (Beijing) Enterprise Management Center (Limited Partnership) was recently established. The executive partner is Yizhong Group Sunac Technology Development Co., Ltd., with a capital contribution of 6.25 billion yuan. The business scope is enterprise management and enterprise management consulting. It is owned by China Chengtong's Beijing Chengtong Capital Investment Co., Ltd., China Yizhong Group Co., Ltd. and its subsidiary Sunac Technology Development Co., Ltd.It will increase to 6 flights per week, and the route between China Eastern Airlines Shanghai and Riyadh will be encrypted soon. According to China Eastern Airlines, China Eastern Airlines will encrypt the direct flight route between Shanghai and Riyadh from February 21, 2025, from 3 flights per week to 6 flights per week.

Reuters survey: Most economists believe that the tariff proposed by US President-elect Trump has little impact on the British economy; It is estimated that the Bank of England will cut interest rates by 100 basis points in 2025, and may cut interest rates by 25 basis points every quarter; A survey of 71 interviewed economists shows that the Bank of England's interest rate is expected to remain unchanged at 4.75% on December 19th.US media: "Ukraine provides drones to Syrian opposition forces." According to Reuters's December 11th quote from Washington post, a few weeks before Syrian opposition forces launched an offensive and overthrew former President Bashar al-Assad, Syrian militants obtained about 150 drones and other secret support from Ukrainian intelligence personnel. Washington post quoted unnamed sources familiar with Ukrainian military activities as saying that four to five weeks ago, Ukrainian intelligence agencies sent about 20 drone operators and about 150 drones to help the "Syrian Sham Liberation Army". According to the report, the Russian Foreign Ministry said earlier that the Syrian opposition armed forces obtained drones from Ukraine and received operational training. The Russian Foreign Ministry did not provide evidence. At that time, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said that it "categorically" denied this statement. (Reference message)ByteDance and Peking University set up the Joint Lab of Bean Bag Large Model System Software. On the evening of December 12th, the signing ceremony of Peking University-ByteDance Joint Lab of Bean Bag Large Model System Software and the academic seminar of "Intelligent Software Technology and Ecology for Large Model" were held in Yingjie Exchange Center, Peking University. Experts attending the meeting agreed that it is of great significance to promote the deep integration of Industry-University-Research to promote the breakthrough of core technologies of artificial intelligence. The establishment of this joint laboratory is an important milestone in collaborative innovation between schools and enterprises, and will jointly promote the technological innovation and application development of large-scale model system software based on the advantages of both parties. (Sina Technology)

It is reported that the price of iPhone 18 Pro's further use of TSMC's 2nm chip will increase by 70%. It is reported that in 2026, the A20 Pro processor of iPhone 18 Pro will be produced by TSMC's 2 nm process for the first time, and the chip price will rise from the current 50 US dollars to 85 US dollars, with an increase of 70%. With the high cost, the price of iPhone 18 Pro may increase. (Taiwan Province Business Times)During the "slimming" of the brokerage business department, more than 100 companies were cancelled during the year, and the competition turned to differentiated services. The brokerage business of brokerage companies is welcoming a new round of changes. In the past few days, a number of brokers have announced the cancellation of their relevant business departments. According to the reporter's incomplete statistics, in the past two weeks, many brokers such as Nanjing Securities, Guosen Securities and Pacific Securities announced that they would "streamline" their business departments. Looking at it for a long time, more than 35 brokers have issued announcements during the year, "downsizing" hundreds of business departments. Insiders pointed out that the traditional offline outlet business development model has increasingly shown drawbacks and high cost pressure; At the same time, more and more customers rely on online transactions and mobile terminal transactions, so it is imperative to "streamline" the business department to reduce costs and increase efficiency. Future competition depends more on differentiated financial management and trading services. (Shell Finance)The news of the US stock market was delivered before the market. ① The three major stock index futures of the US stock market fell, and the market focused on PPI data. ② As of press time, Dow futures fell 0.19%, S&P 500 futures fell 0.18%, and Nasdaq futures fell 0.27%. (3) Germany's DAX index rose by 0.06%, Britain's FTSE 100 index rose by 0.11%, France's CAC40 index fell by 0.04% and Europe's Stoxx 50 index fell by 0.03%. ④WTI crude oil fell 0.06% to 70.25 USD/barrel. Brent crude oil fell 0.07% to $73.47/barrel. ⑤ American finance is under great pressure, with a budget deficit of $366.8 billion in November, up 17% year-on-year. ⑥ ING is bearish on the prospect of commodities next year, and gold is expected to outshine others. ⑦ Macy's department store fell 8.2% before the market, and the company lowered its profit outlook after discovering accounting errors. 8 Broadcom's share price rose by 4.3% before the market closed. In the news, Apple may cooperate with Broadcom to develop AI server chips. 9 ⑨Adobe's U.S. stocks fell by about 9% before the market, and the company's annual performance guidance was worse than expected.