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Industrial integration has injected new vitality, and the activity of mergers and acquisitions has increased. The data shows that since the beginning of this year, a total of 132 A-share companies have issued announcements related to mergers and acquisitions, compared with 82 in the same period last year. Among them, since the release of "Six Articles on Mergers and Acquisitions", nearly 50 listed companies have issued relevant announcements on mergers and acquisitions, and the process of mergers and acquisitions of listed companies has accelerated. Experts said that under the impetus of policies, the activity of mergers and acquisitions has been significantly improved, and industrial integration has become the main logic of mergers and acquisitions. Listed companies can seize the favorable opportunity of capital operation to promote mergers and acquisitions, which can quickly broaden their business fields, enrich their product matrix and achieve greater and stronger results.WTI crude oil futures closed up 1.74%, while WTI January crude oil futures closed up 1.17 USD, or 1.74% to 68.37 USD/barrel. Brent February crude oil futures closed up 1.02 US dollars, or 1.43% to 72.14 US dollars/barrel. Nymex January natural gas futures closed up 3.45% to $3.1820/million British heat.The overall scale of bonus ETF exceeds 71.1 billion yuan, leading the products to exceed 20 billion yuan. As the largest dividend ETF at present, the scale of Huatai Bairui bonus ETF rose to 20.121 billion yuan on December 6, becoming the first dividend ETF to exceed 20 billion yuan. According to the data, the product takes the dividend index of Shanghai Stock Exchange as the benchmark for performance comparison and adopts the investment strategy of complete replication method. As of December 9, the product had a floating profit of 18.21% during the year. According to incomplete statistics, as of December 9, 13 bonus ETFs have been newly established this year (excluding QDII funds, Hong Kong Stock Connect and other overseas products). On the whole, there are 37 bonus ETF products with a market size of 71.185 billion yuan. (Securities Daily)

Murdoch, a media tycoon, failed in his attempt to change the family trust. Edmund Gorman, a court Commissioner in Nevada, USA, concluded in a ruling filed on Saturday that Rupert Murdoch should not change his family trust and concentrate the control of his media empire in the hands of his son Lachlan, and that Murdoch showed "malice" in his efforts to modify the irrevocable trust. At present, the trust plan will distribute the control of the company to Rupert Murdoch's four children, Lackland, James, Elizabeth and Prudence, equally after his death.Saab received an order from the US Air Force for giraffe 4A radar in Europe.Apollo's flagship private equity fund aims to raise $25 billion.

At the end of the year, banks intensively sold certificates of deposit at the highest interest rate of 3%. Near the end of the year, many small and medium-sized banks began to sell certificates of deposit, and the annualized interest rates of some three-year and five-year certificates of deposit could reach more than 2%, even as high as 3%. At the same time, some banks have "raised the deposit interest rate against the trend" to attract depositors. The industry believes that near the end of the year, although some small and medium-sized banks raised deposit interest rates, on the whole, the downward trend of deposit interest rates is a general trend, and there is still room for downward trend in the future. (Securities Daily)OpenAI CEO Altman: I hope to provide OpenAI products in Europe.Ghana Election Commission announced that Mahama won the presidential election, and Ghana Election Commission announced on the 9th that former President john dramani mahama, the presidential candidate of national democratic congress in Ghana, won the 2024 presidential election. At a news conference that night, Chairman of Ghana Election Commission Mensa said that Mahama won 56.55% of the votes in 267 constituencies where the counting results had been announced, and its main rival, the incumbent Vice President Mahamoudou Bawumia, won 41.61% of the votes, ranking second. Even if Bawumia won all valid votes in the remaining nine constituencies, it would not change the election results, and Mahama won the presidential election.