The US investment bank explained the downward adjustment of India's economic growth forecast: Based on the short-term economic slowdown and influenced by multiple internal and external factors, according to the Indian media "QRIUS", Uppsala Chachar, chief Indian economist of Morgan Stanley, the US investment bank, predicted that India's GDP growth in fiscal year 2025-2026 would be 6.5%. According to India's Economic Times, at the beginning of this month, Morgan Stanley has lowered India's GDP growth forecast for fiscal year 2024-2025 from the previous 6.7% to 6.3%.Ma Zhixin, the chief financial officer of Nissan, was informed that he would lead the business in China again. According to the Nikkei News, the board of directors of Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. decided to re-appoint Stephen Ma to take charge of the business in China, and JÉRÉMIE PAPIN, the chairman of Nissan Americas Company, will replace Ma Zhixin as the chief financial officer. In 2012, Ma Zhixin served as vice president of Dongfeng Co., Ltd., then transferred back to Nissan headquarters in 2018 and was promoted to chief financial officer the following year.Wei Shaojun, China Semiconductor Industry Association: The domestic chip design industry has returned to the double-digit high-speed development track. At the Shanghai IC Industry Development Forum 2024, Wei Shaojun, chairman of the IC Design Branch of China Semiconductor Industry Association, said that it is estimated that the domestic chip design industry sales in 2024 will be 646.04 billion yuan, an increase of 11.9% compared with 2023, returning to the double-digit high-speed development track, and the proportion of the global IC product market will be basically the same as last year. In terms of the distribution of industrial cities, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Beijing continue to occupy the top three cities in the scale of design industry this year. Among them, the scale of chip design industry in Shanghai has reached 179.5 billion yuan, which is further widened compared with that in Shenzhen. The scale of design industry in Wuxi has reached 67.82 billion yuan, surpassing Hangzhou and ranking fourth. In 2024, the number of chip design enterprises with sales exceeding 100 million reached 737.
The dollar just hit the 7.2500 yuan mark against the offshore RMB, falling by 0.09% in the day; The US dollar against the onshore RMB was recently reported at 7.2465 yuan, down 0.04% in the day.China's one-year interest rate swap hit a four-year low, and China's one-year interest rate swap (IRS) fell sharply this week, falling below the 1.50% mark for the first time since 2020. The data shows that the one-year interest rate swap was still around 1.50% at the beginning of Wednesday, and once fell to 1.4825% in the previous session, setting a new low since May 2020.In early trading, most of the main contracts of domestic futures fell. Palm oil fell more than 2%, alumina, Shanghai nickel, coking coal, glass, iron ore, soda ash and lithium carbonate fell more than 1%, and No.20 glue, methanol and stainless steel (SS) fell nearly 1%. In terms of increase, the Shanghai-Tianjin and Container Lines Europe rose by over 1%, while vegetable oil and fuel oil rose by nearly 1%.
Tan Hai, former director of the referee management department of the Chinese Football Association, was sentenced to six and a half years' imprisonment. On the morning of December 11th, 2024, the People's Court of Shishou City, Hubei Province publicly pronounced the case of Tan Hai, former director of the referee management department of the Chinese Football Association, accepting bribes, and sentenced the defendant Tan Hai to six years and six months' imprisonment and fined RMB 200,000. The property obtained by taking bribes shall be recovered according to law and turned over to the state treasury.South Korea's KOSPI index rose 1% to 2,442.31.The Hang Seng Index of Hong Kong stocks opened higher by 0.46%, the index of state-owned enterprises rose by 0.51%, and the branch index rose by 0.46%.