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This year, the amount of M&A transactions involving listed companies in Hong Kong has reached 38 billion US dollars, which has triggered a rare bidding war. This year is expected to be the busiest year for M&A transactions involving listed companies in Hong Kong in the past decade, with industries ranging from skin care products to logistics real estate, and the bidding war has also warmed up. It is reported that China Mobile's bid for Hongkong Broadband may face competition from American private equity firm I Squared Capital. Bi Hua, chairman of Fenmei Packaging, is negotiating with Qihao Capital to jointly counter the privatization offer of Shandong Xinjufeng. The data shows that the scale of M&A transactions for listed companies in Hong Kong has reached $38 billion this year, the highest level since 2017, including the merger of Guotai Junan Securities and Haitong Securities, a smaller competitor, to become the largest brokerage firm in China.Speaker of South Korea's National Assembly: Yin Xiyue will never tolerate declaring martial law in order to warn the National Assembly. On the 12th, South Korea's National Assembly Speaker Yu Yuanzhi said that Yin Xiyue "declared emergency martial law in order to warn the National Assembly, which is absolutely intolerable in the constitutional order, because it means that the democratic constitutional order can be destroyed for political purposes, and the basic rights of the people can also be used as a means for political purposes". Yu Yuanzhi also said that today's presidential talk cannot lead to other misjudgments or social chaos, and Congress will deal with all possible situations.Jinzheng Co., Ltd.: The new version of appropriateness management system won the bid for four customers in a row. According to Jinzheng Co., Ltd., in September this year, Jinzheng Co., Ltd. released a new version of appropriateness management system, and its products recently won the bid for four customers in Guoyuan Securities, Hongta Securities, Hualong Securities and Guodu Securities, reflecting the changing trend of new management modes such as data guiding decision-making and model risk screening in the field of compliance risk control.

Mizuho listed in Japan to invest in the ETF of Saudi stock market.OpenAI：Sora has started partial recovery, and OpenAI updated the outage accident report, saying that remedial work is continuing. API traffic recovery is in progress, and we are recovering ChatGPT traffic by region. Sora has begun a partial recovery.The securities sector continued to rise, and Guolian Securities closed the daily limit. Prior to this, Guosheng Financial Holdings had three consecutive boards, and Harbin Investment, Southwest Securities, Huaxin Shares and Cinda Securities followed suit.

Ministry of Water Resources: A number of projects to fully promote the construction of the national water network are accelerating. On December 12, the State Council Office held a press conference to introduce the tenth anniversary of the first phase of the East Middle Route of the South-to-North Water Transfer Project. Zhang Xiangwei, director of the Planning Department of the Ministry of Water Resources, said that the Ministry of Water Resources has made every effort to promote the construction of the national water network according to the overall deployment of the Outline of the National Water Network Construction Plan, focusing on networking, supplementing the network and strengthening the chain. Judging from the main artery of the national water network, the middle route of South-to-North Water Transfer Project is accelerating. From the point of view of the backbone water transport and drainage channels of the national water network, a number of major inter-basin water diversion projects have been completed, such as connecting the Yangtze River and Huaihe River, connecting the Han River and Weihe River, and allocating water resources in the Pearl River Delta. At the same time, the water resources allocation around the Beibu Gulf, the backbone project of Jilin water network, the second phase of Huaihe River's waterway into the sea and other projects that have been demonstrated for many years have all started construction and are actively promoting the implementation of the projects.Black hand again! The United States will raise import tariffs on solar polysilicon, silicon wafers and some tungsten products in China from the beginning of next year. The Office of the US Trade Representative issued a statement saying that the United States will raise import tariffs on solar polysilicon, silicon wafers and some tungsten products imported from China from the beginning of next year after a four-year review by the Biden administration. The tariff rate of silicon wafer and polysilicon will be increased to 50%, and the tariff rate of some tungsten products will be increased to 25%. These tariff increases will take effect on January 1, 2025. (Cailian)Afternoon comments on Hong Kong stocks: Hang Seng Index rose by 1.72%, Hang Seng Technology Index rose by 2.55%, Hong Kong stocks closed at noon, Hang Seng Index rose by 1.72% and Hang Seng Technology Index rose by 2.55%. Chinese brokerage stocks and consumer stocks were among the top gainers, with China Merchants Securities, Mengniu Dairy and Tongcheng Travel up over 7% and over 5% respectively.