Market News: Apple is cooperating with Broadcom around artificial intelligence (AI) chips. Apple chips may be ready for production in 2026.Albertson terminated its merger with krogh and announced an increase in dividend and repurchase plan. albertson Company announced that it had exercised its right to terminate its merger agreement with krogh, because the US District Court in Oregon and the District Court in Washington issued an injunction on the proposed merger on December 10th. Vivek Sankaran, CEO of the company, commented: "In view of the recent decision of the federal and state courts to block the proposed merger between the company and krogh, we have made a difficult decision to terminate the merger agreement. We are very disappointed with the court's decision. " In addition, the board of directors of albertson Company plans to increase the quarterly cash dividend from $0.12 to $0.15 per share, and approved a stock repurchase plan of up to $2 billion.Chongqing released the third batch of 700 collaborative development projects of state-owned enterprises and private enterprises, with a total investment of over 271 billion yuan. On the 11th, the third round of project release activities of Chongqing's state-owned enterprises, private enterprises and foreign enterprises linked with Wanzhou Bank and the collaborative development of state-owned enterprises and private enterprises was held in Wanzhou District, Chongqing, and 700 collaborative development projects of state-owned enterprises and private enterprises in 2024 were released on the spot, with a total investment of over 271 billion yuan. Three rounds of contract signing were held on site, with a total investment of 46.5 billion yuan. (Zhongxin. com)
Apple introduced Siri with ChatGPT, and on Wednesday, Apple released software updates for iPhone, iPad and Mac, including Siri with ChatGPT. This is also a major victory for OpenAI, because it shows its most important products to millions of iPhone users.Traders increased their bets on the Fed's interest rate cut in December.Lilly will study whether diet pills can effectively control addictive behaviors. Dave Ricks, CEO of Lilly, said that the company will start to study whether its best-selling diet pills can also effectively control addictive behaviors such as alcoholism, smoking and drug abuse. Ricks said at a meeting that these drugs are "anti-hedonic" and may temporarily make patients get rid of drug dependence. Some doctors have said that this drug can help alleviate drug addiction. Novo Nordisk also said earlier this year that it planned to conduct research on drug addiction.
Ping An Property & Casualty Shanghai Branch responded with a fine: the internal accountability mechanism was started, and the rectification work was carried out. On December 11th, the ticket disclosed by Shanghai Supervision Bureau of the State Financial Supervision and Administration Bureau showed that China Ping An Property Insurance Co., Ltd. Shanghai Branch was fined 730,000 yuan for entrusting an institution without legal qualification to engage in insurance sales activities, and compiling or providing false reports, statements, documents and materials. In this regard, Ping An Property & Casualty Shanghai Branch responded that the company completely obeyed the punishment decision of the regulatory authorities, and ordered the punished institutions to carefully analyze the causes of the problems found in the supervision at the first time, and started the internal accountability mechanism to pursue the relevant responsible persons. In response to the problems pointed out by the regulatory authorities, the relevant departments have been instructed to take the lead in organizing the relevant institutions to carry out rectification work, and to carry out self-examination and self-correction of related problems and centralized rectification work. (澎湃)Treasury yields fell, while the Bloomberg dollar spot index erased gains.Traders increased their bets on the Fed's interest rate cut in December.
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