With the general election approaching, German Chancellor Angela Scholz supports reducing the value-added tax on basic groceries. German Chancellor Angela Scholz said in an interview on the evening of December 10th local time that he was in favor of reducing the value-added tax on basic groceries from 7% to 5% to help low-income families cope with inflation. The center-left leader also said that although the opposition Conservative Party has a big lead in the polls, he is confident of winning the early election on February 23rd.Japanese and Korean stock markets opened slightly lower, with the Nikkei 225 index down 0.02% at 39,357.77. South Korea's KOSPI index opened down 0.2% to 2,412.15 points.Argentine President Millai: Argentines can now trade in any currency.
ADB lowered the growth forecast of developing economies in the Asia-Pacific region to maintain China's economic growth forecast. On December 11th, the Asian Development Bank issued the Asia Development Outlook 2024 (December Edition). According to the report, the development momentum in the Asia-Pacific region is steady, but as US President-elect Trump is about to take office, changes in his trade, finance and immigration policies may inhibit the development of the Asia-Pacific region and aggravate inflation. ADB lowered its growth forecast for developing economies in the Asia-Pacific region from the previous 5.0% to 4.9% in 2024, and from the previous 4.9% to 4.8% in 2025. China's economic growth is expected to remain at 4.8% and 4.5% in 2024 and 2025 respectively, which is the same as before.GM will withdraw from the driverless taxi business, and the Cruise self-driving car division of GM will withdraw from the driverless taxi business. According to a statement on Tuesday, Cruise and GM's technical team will be combined to focus on developing autonomous driving and advanced driver safety technology for GM's future sales models. GM said that it will no longer provide funds for the development of self-driving taxis "considering the large amount of time and resources needed to expand its business scale and the increasingly fierce competition in the self-driving taxi market". The company said that giving up the development of self-driving taxis will save it more than $1 billion in annual costs.CITIC Securities: The supply and demand pattern may meet the turning point, paying attention to the strategic allocation value of the magnesium industry. CITIC Securities Research Report said that magnesium prices have stopped falling and stabilized recently, and magnesium as a strategic attribute of China's superior resources is expected to continue to improve. At present, there is a widespread cost inversion in factories, and the willingness to support the price by cost is enhanced, and the purchasing and storage measures are superimposed. We believe that the magnesium price is expected to open an upward channel. At present, the ratio of magnesium to aluminum is reduced to about 0.9 at the bottom, which is conducive to the accelerated promotion of magnesium alloys, and the downstream fields such as new energy vehicles, low-altitude economy, humanoid robots and solid hydrogen storage have broad prospects.
Japan's producer price in November increased by 0.3% month-on-month, and it is estimated to increase by 0.2%. Japan's producer price in November increased by 3.7% year-on-year, and it is estimated to increase by 3.4%.Details of the life of the murder suspect of UnitedHealth Insurance Company surfaced. On Tuesday, Luigi Mangione, the suspect accused of shooting a senior executive of United Health, had a brief struggle with police officers and shouted angrily when he was taken to a court in Pennsylvania. Man Ghioni, 26, turned to a group of reporters and shouted, "... completely unsociable, insulting the wisdom of the American people!" And then pushed away by the police. It is not clear what he is referring to. On Tuesday, more clues about his possible motive gradually surfaced. According to the police, Man Ghione had a handwritten declaration when he was arrested, which can let people know his mentality. According to The New York Times, an internal report of the new york police, after analyzing the document, concluded that Man Ghioni believed that killing was a proper response to what he thought was corruption in the medical industry. It is reported that Mann Ghioni wrote in the manifesto: "These parasites deserve it". According to Mancini's friends, his social media posts and other news reports, Mancini suffers from chronic back pain, which limits his daily life. His profile on X-ray shows an X-ray background picture with screws and steel plates inserted into his lower back.Kathy Hochul, the governor of New York, said that a governor's arrest warrant would be issued to the suspect who murdered the CEO of United Health Insurance.
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