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Payment licenses have been cancelled for a total of 94 times, and 9 payment institutions "left the site" during the year. Recently, Kaidianbao Payment Service Co., Ltd. issued the Notice on Suspension of Payment Business, saying that it would withdraw and clean up the existing stock business in an orderly manner. According to the list of cancelled payment institutions updated by official website, People's Bank of China, as of December 13 this year, 94 payment licenses have been confirmed to be cancelled, and the number of payment licenses cancelled this year is 9. (Securities Daily)Nasdaq 100 Index announced the annual adjustment results of constituent stocks: Palantir, MicroStrategy and Axon will be added to the index, while Illumina, supercomputer and Moderna will be removed.National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC): We need to further strengthen the effective consumption promotion policies and support them with greater efforts. Wu Sa, deputy director of the Institute of Economics of the Macroeconomic Research Institute of the NDRC, said that it should be said that we have accumulated more and more experience in promoting consumption this year, whether it is the stock policy or the package of incremental policies. For example, the "two new" policy and the trade-in policy of consumer goods have greatly promoted the growth of consumption. This economic work conference also clearly pointed out that the effective consumption promotion policy should be further strengthened, and the scope should be expanded, the quality should be improved, and more efforts should be made to support it, which will inevitably bring better efforts to the consumption growth of household appliances, various household appliances and so on next year. In addition, this economic work conference also put forward many new policies to promote consumption, which will also affect the improvement of our consumer market next year, so it will have a greater supporting role for the consumer market next year. (CCTV News)

CITIC Securities: The growth rate of supply is expected to move down rapidly, and there is room for aluminum price increase. According to the research report of CITIC Securities, the growth rate of global electrolytic aluminum production is expected to be 3.6%/2.2%/1.7%/0.9% from 2024 to 2027, showing a rapid downward trend. At the same time, our calculation results show that the incentive price of overseas electrolytic aluminum projects may be as high as 3000 US dollars /24000 yuan. The current aluminum price is difficult to stimulate overseas capacity expansion. We are optimistic about the rising space of aluminum price and the allocation value of aluminum plate under the background of strong supply constraints. Maintain the aluminum plate "stronger than the market" rating.Funds continue to enter the market through the channel. The net subscription of stock ETFs exceeded 36.5 billion in the month. Since December, funds have continued to enter the market through stock ETFs (transactional open index funds). Wind information data shows that as of December 13, the net subscription share of stock ETFs in the month reached 36.543 billion. From the perspective of specific capital flow, broad-based ETFs attract gold strongly, and many CSI A 500 ETFs and CSI 300ETF are actively subscribed by investors. In addition, dividend ETFs are also net subscribed by investors. (Securities Daily)Nasdaq 100 Index announced the annual adjustment results of constituent stocks: Palantir, MicroStrategy and Axon will be added to the index, while Illumina, supercomputer and Moderna will be removed.

National Bureau of Statistics: Compared with the end of November, the market prices of 50 kinds of important means of production in 9 categories in the national circulation field increased in early December, 23 kinds decreased and 4 kinds remained flat. The National Bureau of Statistics released the market price changes of important means of production in the circulation field in early December 2024: According to the monitoring of the market prices of 50 kinds of important means of production in 9 categories in the national circulation field, compared with the end of November, the prices of 23 kinds of products increased in early December 2024, 23.Wafer factory "bargains for orders"? Insiders: It's not so exaggerated that there is no need for drastic price reduction at present. Recently, some industry media reported that the Chinese mainland wafer foundry has overflowed its capacity and is striving for more IC design factory orders to return at a low price discount. A manager of Chinese mainland Head Wafer Factory told reporters that the actual situation was "not as serious as reported by the media, and not so exaggerated". The source said that since the fourth quarter of this year, the quotation of its wafer factory has been "stable at present". In the fourth quarter, product orders from display drivers, power management and other categories were "not bad", and the market demand was similar to that previously publicly disclosed. The independent control of the mainland market is still the main theme. It is understood that the fourth quarter is usually the "off-season" of the wafer foundry industry, and downstream customers will review the sales plan at the beginning of the year, and they are not willing to stock up and receive goods. A person from a consumer chip company in Chinese mainland said, "Fab factories generally adjust prices according to market supply and demand." Yang Shengxin, a senior analyst of Sigmaintell's semiconductor business unit, said in an interview that according to the observation of Sigma Intell, Chinese mainland's wafer factory decreased by about 5% in the fourth quarter of 2024, and concentrated on 12-inch products; The price of China Taiwan Province Wafer Factory has not changed significantly. (science and technology innovation board Daily)China calls on the Security Council to resume the blanket exemption from the travel ban for relevant personnel of the Afghan interim government as soon as possible. On December 13th, local time, the United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted resolution 2763, extending the authorization of the Monitoring Team of the 1988 Sanctions Committee (Taliban Sanctions Committee) for 14 months. The Chinese representative expressed the hope that the team would continue to actively perform its duties as authorized by the resolution, provide strong support for the work of the Committee, support the monitoring team to strengthen contacts with the Afghan interim government, and look forward to the team's early visit to Afghanistan. Geng Shuang said that the resolution reaffirmed the necessity of reviewing the 1988 sanctions regime and stressed that the Security Council sanctions should help promote Afghan peace and stability. The Taliban has been in power for more than three years, the situation in Afghanistan is generally stable, and contacts between the outside world and the Afghan authorities are gradually expanding. China once again calls for timely adjustment of the sanctions mechanism according to the development and changes of the situation. As a first step, the Security Council should restore the blanket exemption from the travel ban for relevant personnel of the Afghan interim government as soon as possible, so as to create conditions and facilitate the international community to strengthen contacts and exchanges with Afghanistan.