TSMC ADR fell before the market, but analysts said that the demand for artificial intelligence remained strong. TSMC ADR fell by 0.6% in pre-market trading in the United States, after the world's largest chip foundry announced its sales data for November. Analysts said that the data is a positive signal of TSMC's quarterly revenue. Bernstein analysts said that the company's revenue in October and November totaled 590 billion Taiwan dollars, accounting for 69.6% of TSMC's guidance midpoint in the fourth quarter of 2024, close to the high end of the range of 65-72% in December of the past eight years. If December follows the average seasonal factors of the past eight years, the income in the fourth quarter of 2024 will be 1.7% higher than the midpoint of the guidance interval and 1.2% higher than the market expectation.SOMO, Iraq's national oil marketing organization: Iraq set the official selling price of Basra Intermediate crude oil sold to Asia in January at a discount of $0.60/barrel compared with the average price of Oman/Dubai.Government of India: Appoint Ajay Seth, the current Minister of Economic Affairs, as Minister of Finance.
Huang Man served as the deputy general manager of Soochow Fund. On December 10th, Soochow Fund Management Co., Ltd. announced the change of senior management: from now on, Huang Man served as the deputy general manager of the company. According to the announcement, Huang Man has served as a financial engineer, deputy general manager and deputy general manager (presiding) of Hongta Securities Innovation Research Department, general manager of Hongzheng Junfang Investment Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Hongta Securities, deputy general manager of Hongta Securities Fixed Income Department, and deputy general manager (presiding) and deputy general manager of Hongta Securities Shanghai Fixed Income Branch. He is currently the deputy general manager of Soochow Fund Management Co., Ltd..Sharp and KDDI reached a consensus on starting the AI data center in 2025. On December 9, Sharp announced that it had reached a consensus with Japanese telecom giant KDDI, and strived to fully start the AI data center transformed from a factory in 2025. Including Datasection, which is engaged in system development and OEM, and Supermicro, USA, the negotiation between the four companies will be concluded. Four companies reached a consensus in June this year to coordinate the establishment of an operating company and the procurement of a graphics processor (GPU) for generative AI learning and inference.Chief Financial Officer of Citigroup: Facts have proved that the global economy is flexible.
Council of the European Union: Poland will hold the rotating presidency of the Council from January to the end of June 2025.Institution: Sweden's weak economic data highlights the need to further loosen monetary policy. Torbjorn Isaksson, chief analyst of Nordic United Bank, said that the weak economic data in October highlighted the fragility of Sweden's recovery and needed to further loosen monetary policy to support growth. He said that the decline occurred after the sharp decline in September, indicating that the fourth quarter started very weakly. Isaksson said that household consumption fell by 0.3% in the month, which was disappointing and would be a concern of the Swedish central bank. At the same time, the production of the commercial sector decreased by 0.8% in that month, the production of the construction sector increased, and the manufacturing orders remained basically unchanged. "Overall, the October data is weaker than we expected."In the United States, the annual retail sales rate of red books in the week to December 7 was 4.2%, and the previous value was 7.4%.
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