Tang Shikai, a member of the board of directors of Mercedes-Benz, will retire next year and is now in charge of the company's business in Greater China. Mercedes-Benz Group Co., Ltd. announced that Hubertus Troska, the current member of the board of directors in charge of the company's business in Greater China, will retire in 2025 as planned. He himself decided to take up a new position as a member of the board of directors of Mercedes-Benz Group Co., Ltd. and a special representative for China affairs from February 1, 2025 to promote the company's business system in the world's largest market. Tang Shikai will officially retire on July 31, 2025.Oppenheimer: Raise the target price of opening customers from $980 to $1,075, and reiterate the rating of "outperforming the market".General Motors (GM): The unmanned business Cruise and GM Technical team will be merged, and the plan is expected to be completed in the first half of 2025. According to the priority of GM's capital allocation, GM will no longer fund Cruise's self-driving taxi development business.
Ministry of Finance of Korea: Korea's financial market is still facing uncertainty.Li Ziyuan: There are no matters that should be disclosed but not disclosed. Li Ziyuan issued a change announcement. After the company's self-inspection, the company's current production and operation activities are normal, there is no major adjustment in the market environment or industry policies, and the internal production and operation order is normal; , the company and the controlling shareholder and actual controller of the company have no matters that should be disclosed but not disclosed.Japanese manufacturers' confidence index turned negative to the central bank's forecast in December. A short-term survey in Reuters, Japan, found that Japanese manufacturers' business confidence deteriorated further in December due to concerns about US protectionist policies. The survey of 505 large Japanese non-financial enterprises showed that manufacturers' confidence index fell from 5 in November to -1 in December, which was the first time since last February, and the number of pessimists exceeded optimists for the first time in 10 months. The loss of business confidence may cast a shadow over the Bank of Japan's forecast. The Bank of Japan had previously predicted that a steady recovery driven by rising wages and consumption would help inflation reach the 2% target in a sustainable way and justify further interest rate hikes. Many manufacturing industries have reported that business confidence has declined. Among electronic machinery manufacturers, steel and non-ferrous metal manufacturers, pessimists far exceed optimists.
Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Korea: We will pay close attention to the financial and foreign exchange market trends and take adequate measures to curb excessive fluctuations in the foreign exchange market.ZTE and ZTE Xinyun jointly released a digital intelligence financial solution. Recently, ZTE and ZTE Xinyun Cloud Service Co., Ltd. (referred to as "ZTE Xinyun") jointly released a digital intelligence financial solution based on digital nebula. The solution provides one-stop financial cloud application, fully supports financial functions and financial processes, solves breakpoints and pain points in the interaction between industry and finance, breaks the "data island" between systems, realizes the intelligent and efficient collection of business data and financial processing, and empowers the intelligent transformation of enterprise financial data.Morgan Asset Management: In 2025, there are sufficient reasons to continue to over-allocate US stocks. Sylvia Sheng, global multi-asset strategist of Morgan Asset Management, said that there are sufficient reasons to continue to over-allocate US stocks and increase exposure to small and medium-sized stocks. She pointed out that although the valuation may look high, it is expected that the profit growth of S&P 500 companies will continue. Sheng wrote that it is estimated that in 2025, the contribution of the six giants in the S&P 500 index to the profit growth of the other 494 stocks will be the same, and the profit growth of these six giants is expected to slow down from 40% in 2024 to 22%. In the international market, Morgan Asset Management continues to over-allocate Japanese stocks, and its quantitative model shows that the yield of Japanese stocks is attractive and the bottom-up profitability is strong.
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