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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.Luoyang Molybdenum Industry: Luo Yunxiang was elected as the employee representative supervisor. Luoyang Molybdenum Industry (03993) announced that the seventh board of supervisors of the company recently received a written resignation report from Mr. Li Hongwei. Mr. Li Hongwei applied to resign as a supervisor of the company due to job adjustment.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.

Finance Minister of Canada: The debt-to-GDP ratio will reach the government target of 42.1% in fiscal year 23-24.European Central Bank: Foreign exchange reserves increased by 500 million euros to 327.4 billion euros.Chief Financial Officer of Citigroup: The company's net interest income (excluding the market) will benefit from the increase in trading volume.

Foreign capital is buying! Wall Street traders "lay out A shares" have gained huge floating profits. The latest data shows that Wall Street traders are "laying out A shares" through large call options. The data shows that from November 29th to last Friday, Wall Street traders bought nearly 180,000 Direxion Daily FTSE China Bull 3x Shares ETF (Yinn) call options. Wall Street traders also bought about 210,000 Direxion Daily CSI 300 China A Share Bull 2x Shares (code CHAU) call options last week. Among them, CHAU did twice as much as the CSI 300 Index, while YINN did three times as much as the FTSE China A50 Index. U.S. stocks closed overnight, and YINN and CHAU rose by more than 23% and 13% respectively. According to calculation, the book income of the buyers of the above-mentioned YINN and CHAU call options contracts has reached 138 million dollars (about 1 billion yuan). Today, the A-share market opened, and the three major indexes all opened sharply higher. The GEM index rose above 4% at first, and then the market suddenly changed, and the three major indexes quickly fell back. At the close, the Shanghai Composite Index rose by 0.59%, the Shenzhen Composite Index rose by 0.75%, and the GEM index rose by 0.69%. Looking forward to the A-share market outlook, institutional analysis believes that macroeconomic policies are expected to maintain a positive tone of overweight and countercyclical adjustment, and institutional funds, active funds and retail funds are expected to resonate, driving the A-share "year-end and year-end market" to continue to be interpreted.Shangtang Technology issues no more than 1.87 billion shares at a price of HK$ 1.46-1.52 per share.Villeroi, Governor of the Bank of France: No matter what the political situation is, France needs to rectify its public finances.