Hong Kong stocks continued to fall in the afternoon, and the Hang Seng Science and Technology Index fell by 1%, which once rose by more than 1%. The Hang Seng Index fell 0.5%.South Korea's Minister of Planning and Finance, Choe Sang-mu, said that he had tried his best to stabilize the turbulent financial market.South Korea's Minister of Planning and Finance, Choe Sang-mu, told Congress that the downside risks facing the economy are increasing.
A laboratory in Australia lost hundreds of deadly virus samples. It is reported that a laboratory in Australia lost hundreds of deadly virus samples, causing a "major loophole" in biosafety. On December 8th, Queensland Health Minister announced that there are currently 323 bottles of live virus missing. These include nearly 100 bottles of Hendra virus, two bottles of Hantavirus and 223 bottles of rabies virus-all of which are extremely deadly to human beings. The Queensland authorities insist that although these samples can be used as weapons, it is "not something that amateurs can do". The sample was lost in 2021, but investigators did not confirm the leak until August 2023. Queensland authorities waited for a year before being allowed to open the freezer where the samples were stored, and only this month were they able to confirm that the samples were lost. It is not clear where these samples may be or whether they have been destroyed. However, there is no evidence that the public is at risk of infection because of the disappearance of samples.The chairman of Japan's trade union called on the government to speed up its efforts to raise wages, and the chairman of Japan's Metal Workers' Union urged the government to speed up the pace of wage increase, while expressing concern about the premature tightening measures taken by the Bank of Japan. Akihiro Kaneko, president of the Board of Directors of the Japan Metal Workers' Union, said that we need to see the situation improve this year when talking about the government's measures to help small and medium-sized enterprises pass on costs to consumers through the supply chain. If we put off this effort for five or ten years, there will never be any improvement. Kaneko's remarks come as Japan prepares for annual wage negotiations, which will culminate this spring. In next year's negotiations, the union announced a record target of a monthly salary increase of 12,000 yen (US$ 79) or more. Kaneko said that we need to send a clear message that our salary increase target (this year) is higher.Wang Tao, UBS: It is expected that the Central Economic Work Conference will focus on the short-term policy package. Recently, the market highly expects the Central Economic Work Conference to guide the high-quality economic development of China next year. Wang Tao, head of Asian economic research at UBS and chief China economist, said: "I expect that the Central Economic Work Conference may focus on the short-term policy package in 2025 and 2026, but it will also emphasize accelerating some reform measures already outlined at the Third Plenary Session." Wang Tao believes that the next important reform measures may include providing better protection and access for the private economy, deepening the reform of state-owned enterprises to improve efficiency and governance, promoting household registration reform to improve the welfare of migrant workers, strengthening the social security network, and carrying out fiscal and taxation reforms to solve local fiscal revenue problems. "I think structural, deeper and faster reforms will be very important, not only to attract foreign investment, but also to boost domestic confidence." (China Daily)
China, a huge Hong Kong stock market, once rose over 80%.Ice and snow tourism concept stocks strengthened in the short-term, with Inpais trading daily, Yuanlongyatu and Longjiang traffic rising.The Nikkei 225 index just broke through the 39,300.00 mark, and the latest report was 39,302.42, down 0.17% in the day.
Strategy guide 12-13
Strategy guide 12-13