Wal-Mart Mexico's share price rose more than 4% after the regulator ruled that it was involved in monopolistic behavior.Mckinsey agreed to pay $650 million to settle the criminal investigation of opioids by the U.S. Department of Justice. Mckinsey submitted a five-year deferred prosecution agreement to the federal court in Abingdon, Virginia, and agreed to pay $650 million to settle the criminal investigation of the U.S. Department of Justice on its work in guiding the opioid manufacturer Purdue Pharmaceutical to increase sales. According to court documents, Martin Elling, a former senior partner of McKinsey, agreed to plead guilty to obstruction of justice because he destroyed McKinsey's consulting records for Purdue Pharmaceutical. He will plead guilty on January 10th next year. Mckinsey has previously reached various settlement agreements totaling nearly $1 billion. The company had previously faced lawsuits in several States in the United States, and was accused of providing sales analysis and marketing advice to pharmaceutical companies such as Purdue Pharmaceutical and Johnson & Johnson, which contributed to the popularity of opioids.Lianchuang Optoelectronics: It is planned to terminate the acquisition of Lianchuang Superconductor's equity. Lianchuang Optoelectronics announced that the company originally planned to realize the merger of Lianchuang Superconductor through capital increase and acquisition of a small number of equity. However, during the reply, it was found that there were significant differences between the financial data of Lianchuang Superconductor in 2023 and the 2023 annual report disclosed by Yinggu, the parent company of Ningxia Xuying, which mainly involved the issue of revenue recognition. In addition, the validity period of Lianchuang Superconducting Audit Report and Asset Appraisal Report will expire soon, and it needs to be re-audited and re-evaluated if the transaction continues. By the end of October 2024, Lianchuang Superconductor had achieved an operating income of 45.2084 million yuan, a net profit of-13.1177 million yuan and a net profit of-14.7016 million yuan, which was far from the annual target of the 2024 performance forecast data calculated in the previous asset appraisal report. Based on the principle of prudence, in order to protect the interests of listed companies and investors, the company intends to decide to terminate the above transactions.
The average auction yield of 25-day cash management bills in Canada is 3.276%.The Baltic Sea Index fell for the fourth consecutive week due to the drop in freight rates of all ship sectors. According to the latest data, the Baltic Dry Index (BDI) reported 1051 points on December 13, 2024, the lowest level since July 25, 2023, down 0.38% from the previous value, and fell for the fourth consecutive day. Among them, Panama-type freight index (BPI) reported 995 points, down 2.55% from the previous value, Cape-type freight index (BCI) reported 1263 points, up 0.88%, and super handy ship freight index (BSI) reported 959 points, down 0.21%. The Baltic Exchange's Dry Bulk Shipping Index, which is used to measure the freight of ships transporting dry bulk goods, fell for the fourth week in a row on Friday, because all ship sectors fell this week. The index, which takes into account the freight rates of Capesize, Panamax and Super Handy ships, fell 4 points to 1,051 points on Friday, the lowest level since the end of July 2023. The index fell by about 10% this week. Panama shipping freight index fell 26 points to 995 points. The index also fell this week. Panama-type ships usually carry 60,000-70,000 tons of coal or grain cargo, and their average daily income dropped by $231 to $8,955. Although the freight index of Cape ships rose by 11 points to 1,263 points on Friday, it still fell for the fourth consecutive week. Cape ships usually transport 150 thousand tons of goods, such as iron ore and coal, and their average daily income has increased by 92 dollars to 10,474 dollars. Iron ore futures fell, but closed higher this week. Among small vessels, the freight index of super handy vessels dropped by 2 points to 959 points, which also recorded a loss in Zhou Du.
Kaitou Macro: There is no end in sight for the industrial difficulties in the euro zone. Jack Allen-Reynolds, a macro economist at Kaitou, said in a report that the stagnation of industrial production in the euro zone in October shows that its industrial sector is still weak and will continue to struggle. In fact, he said, without Ireland's data, the G-20' s constant production data would look much worse, or it would drop by 0.5% month-on-month, while Ireland's data is notoriously unstable. Allen-Reynolds said that the output in October excluding Ireland decreased by 2.8% compared with the same period of last year, which was 18% lower than the output level of energy-intensive industries before the outbreak of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. He said that automobile production is 17% lower than the pre-epidemic level. Although the production performance of other industries is not so bad, the latest survey shows that the overall industrial production continues to decline.Tigress Financial raised Wal-Mart's target price from $86.00 to $115.00.Tesla rose 2.5% and will launch the advanced intelligent summoning ASS function. Tesla (TSLA.US) rose 2.5% in intraday trading to $428.8. Tesla China official website launched a brand-new car function today-Actually Smart Summon. This function is suitable for Tesla vehicles with EAP (enhanced automatic driving assistance function) or FSD (full automatic driving capability). Tesla owners can automatically park the vehicle from the parking space and drive to the owner's side or the location designated by the owner on the mobile phone by operating on the Tesla application of the mobile phone, and the vehicle needs to be kept within the owner's sight during the moving process. It is reported that this function will be pushed to the owner through OTA remote software update function.