The financial technology companies supported by Wal-Mart are valued at $2.5 billion. The traditional banking industry is under threat. Wal-Mart is injecting more funds into its newly-started financial start-ups, obtaining a valuation of $2.5 billion for this company, and indicating its ambition to further set foot in the financial services industry. According to informed sources, the world's largest retailer is jointly leading the financing of more than 300 million US dollars with investment company Ribbit Capital. This marks a new valuation for the company named One, in which Wal-Mart holds a majority stake. Wal-Mart has been providing products to many customers and employees in order to gain a greater foothold in the field of financial services. For the financial industry, the threat of Wal-Mart and other companies encroaching on its territory is getting closer and closer. Just last year, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon mentioned the competitive threat of Wal-Mart and other enterprises, pointing out that its hundreds of millions of customers and huge resources at its disposal were "extraordinary competitive advantages".The net purchase of southbound funds exceeded 10 billion yuan.Market News: Lotte Chemical will suspend the Johor plant to reduce losses.
Digital authentication has set up a new technology company in Tianjin. The enterprise search APP shows that Tianjin Mixin Tianxing Technology Co., Ltd. was recently established, with Cheng Xiaozhuo as the legal representative and a registered capital of 30 million yuan. Its business scope includes: electronic authentication services; Software development; Information system integration service; Network and information security software development, etc. Enterprise equity penetration shows that the company is wholly owned by Digital Certification.Blinken asked Turkey to urge Hamas to agree to the hostage agreement, and US Secretary of State Blinken asked Turkey to use its relations with Hamas to urge Hamas to agree to the hostage agreement. Blinken said that during his talks with the Turkish President and Turkish Foreign Minister, he discussed the necessity of Hamas saying "yes" to the ceasefire agreement in Gaza. Blinken said: "We talked about the need for Hamas to agree to the (Gaza) agreement, which may eventually help end the war."China Seismological Network officially measured that a magnitude 3.1 earthquake occurred at 17: 09 on December 13th in Kuqa City, Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang (41.23 degrees north latitude and 83.31 degrees east longitude) with a focal depth of 21 kilometers.
Pimco and Fidelity believe that the economic outlook in the euro zone is weak, and the European Central Bank has cut interest rates by more than market expectations. Investors such as Pimco and Fidelity International believe that the economic outlook in Europe is bleak, which may force policymakers to cut interest rates by more than market expectations. The latest market pricing shows that the European Central Bank is expected to cut its key interest rate to 1.75% next year. The bank cut interest rates for the third time in a row on Thursday, to 3%. However, Fidelity said that the borrowing cost may be further reduced to 1.5%, and Pimco also believed that there was a risk of a larger interest rate cut. Further repricing may aggravate the rise of European bonds, which have outperformed the US and UK bond markets in 2024. A Bloomberg index, which tracks the return of euro bonds, has risen by more than 3% this year, while the corresponding indexes of US bonds and British bonds have risen by 2% and fallen by 2% respectively. "Market expectations are still more hawkish than we expected," said Salman Ahmed, global head of macro and strategic asset allocation at Fidelity. "If downside risks become a reality, then the European Central Bank may cut interest rates further."The International (Xiong 'an) Robot Industry Alliance was formally established. On December 12th, it was learned from the 2024 xiong'an new area Intelligent Robot Industry Development Conference held in xiong'an new area, Hebei Province that the International (Xiong 'an) Robot Industry Alliance and Xiong 'an Robot Innovation and Technology Research Institute were formally established. "As an important representative of the future industry, the intelligent robot industry is in a critical period of rapid development. The establishment of the International (Xiong 'an) Robot Industry Alliance will strongly promote the development of Xiong 'an robot industry, and the establishment of Xiong 'an Robot Innovation Technology Research Institute will provide strong technical support for the sustainable development of intelligent robot industry, marking a solid step in technology research and development and innovation of xiong'an new area robot industry. " Zhang Qin, former vice chairman of China Association for Science and Technology, said. (xinhuanet)Yili shares: invested 130 million yuan to set up Anhui Jianwei Seed Fund. Yili shares announced that the company's wholly-owned limited partnerships, Jianwei Capital, Jianwei Seed Fund, Jianwei Parent Fund and Anhui Seed Fund jointly invested to set up Anhui Jianwei Seed Fund, with a total subscribed capital of 200 million yuan, and the company's wholly-owned limited partnerships contributed a total of 130 million yuan. The partnership term of the partnership enterprise is 12 years, and the fund can be extended twice for 1 year at the expiration of the term. The investment direction is mainly for the top ten emerging industries in Anhui Province, the future industries in the layout of new industries in various cities in the province and other key industries developed by the municipal government, focusing on small and medium-sized scientific and technological innovative enterprises with certain scientific and technological content and relatively new business models.
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