Fitch: (Talking about American residential builders) It is estimated that the residential inventory will improve slightly in 2025, but it will remain at a low level, and it will vary from region to region.Standard & Poor's: Cyprus is upgraded to A-, and the outlook is stable. The economic and financial situation (in the euro zone) performed well, so the rating was upgraded."New Year's Eve+Travel" has caught fire in some places. It is hard to book a table for New Year's Eve. Recently, the reporter visited some old-fashioned restaurants and hotels in Shanghai, and many popular restaurants have been hard to find a table for New Year's Eve. A person in charge of a restaurant said that their New Year's Eve dinner had been sold out as early as May. Some restaurants added a "annual lunch" at noon on New Year's Eve, and reservations were equally hot. Some citizens simply invited the chef to go home and cook a reunion dinner at home. It is understood that the price of a New Year's Eve dinner ranges from 4,000 yuan to 8,000 yuan depending on the dishes and the number of dishes. Reunion is an important part of the Spring Festival culture. This year, in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, the new model of "New Year's Eve+Tourism" has lengthened the reunion time and become a new choice for many consumers. As the Spring Festival holiday will be increased to 8 days next year, some travel agencies have expanded the route of New Year's Eve dinner from the regular Yangtze River Delta to the medium and long-term routes, including destinations such as Yunnan and Heilongjiang. In addition to domestic travel, the registration of outbound travel routes is also very popular, especially in some new visa-free countries. (CCTV Finance)
The previous crude oil futures 2401 contract closed up 2.01% at 552.70 yuan/barrel. Shanghai Gold closed down 0.90% and Shanghai Bank closed down 1.36%.Argentina's MERVAL index closed up 3.06% to 2.375 million points, a record closing high, with a cumulative increase of 7.82% this week.The Swiss government has decided to cancel India's "most favored nation" treatment, which means that Indian multinational companies will face the reality of tax increase by Switzerland from 2025. A year ago, the Supreme Court of India ruled that Swiss companies such as Nestle could not ask the Indian government to reduce their tax burden under the most-favored-nation (NFN) clause.
A number of A-share companies "lead wars for their children" and state-owned institutions have become important buyers. Recently, subsidiaries of a number of listed companies in the A-share market have launched capital increase and share expansion in order to obtain more financial support. According to the incomplete statistics of the Securities Times reporter, since November alone, more than 10 listed companies have issued relevant announcements on the introduction of strategic investors by subsidiaries, most of which are distributed in power equipment, pharmaceutical biology, basic chemical industry and other industries. It is worth noting that many of the strategic investors introduced by the subsidiaries of the above-mentioned enterprises are state-owned investment institutions. For this wave of "war-inducing" trend, people in the industry interviewed by reporters believe that due to the influence of relevant policies, listed companies have great resistance to spin-off and listing, which is an important reason for their subsidiaries to increase their capital and shares. Most of the targets that state-owned investment institutions choose to buy shares are new businesses or core businesses of hard-tech enterprises, which can not only ensure the safety of state-owned funds, but also obtain high premium returns in future IPO opportunities. (Securities Times)Canada encourages the pension fund industry to invest in the local market. Canada has announced a plan to encourage the pension fund industry to invest in the local market. It will lift the 30% restriction on pension funds investing in Canadian local entities, and will add a venture capital plan of 1 billion Canadian dollars, hoping to attract pension funds. It will also invest up to 1 billion Canadian dollars in companies with medium growth rate.Canadian Finance Minister: In the face of possible tariffs imposed by the United States, Canada will not escalate the dispute and will not back down.