It is reported that the price of iPhone 18 Pro's further use of TSMC's 2nm chip will increase by 70%. It is reported that in 2026, the A20 Pro processor of iPhone 18 Pro will be produced by TSMC's 2 nm process for the first time, and the chip price will rise from the current 50 US dollars to 85 US dollars, with an increase of 70%. With the high cost, the price of iPhone 18 Pro may increase. (Taiwan Province Business Times)The Nikkei 225 index just broke through the 40000.00 mark, and the latest report was 40000.43, up 1.60% in the day.European Central Bank: It plans to stop reinvesting in the Emergency Anti-epidemic Bond Purchase Program (PEPP) by the end of 2024. Continue to reduce the emergency anti-epidemic bond purchase program (PEPP) by 7.5 billion euros per month.
Enterprise IT Expenditure Survey: Google Cloud is expected to be the first choice for 50% of the respondents. Tae Kim, a science and technology columnist, wrote that according to a recent survey, Google Cloud has risen rapidly in the enterprise AI expenditure competition and may become the winner. According to the 2025 CIO survey released by Piper Sandler, 81 CIOs were asked about their budget priorities in different suppliers and technical fields. According to the survey, 87% of CIOs surveyed expect to increase the IT budget in 2025, which is the highest proportion of the survey since 2020. In this survey, the status of Google Cloud has risen significantly, surpassing Microsoft and OpenAI to become the "most strategic" AI supplier, with a support rate of 27%, a significant increase from 15% six months ago. Relatively speaking, Microsoft's support rate dropped from 33% to 24%. When asked which cloud company they plan to use to test or implement AI projects next year, 50% of the respondents chose Google Cloud, making it the top AI infrastructure provider. In addition, Harsh Kumar, a Piper semiconductor analyst, pointed out that these results are also beneficial to Invista, because all cloud companies are the main buyers of AI chips in NVIDIA. Kumar estimates that the entire AI chip market will have more than $500 billion in business opportunities by 2028.For the first time, Nanjing Port docked with container ships of "longest ship scale" and "maximum load". Today (December 12th) morning, the largest container ship that entered the port since the opening of Nanjing Port, Panamanian vessel "Mai Di Hong Wei", successfully docked at Longtan Container Terminal, setting a new "double historical record" for the longest scale and maximum load of container ships entering the port. It is understood that the ship is 208.3 meters long, 29.8 meters wide and 33,715 tons deadweight. This voyage is a direct flight from Europe to Nanjing, which will directly increase the maximum container capacity of incoming ships from the current 1938TEU (standard container) to 2600TEU. The successful berthing indicates that 30,000-ton container ships can enter and leave Nanjing Port normally. (CCTV News)The Baltic dry bulk freight index fell 4.61% to 1055 points.
As of December 6, 2024, Pakistan's foreign exchange reserves were $12.1 billion.Guan Qingyou: I am optimistic about the stock market by cutting interest rates and lowering the RRR. For example, Guan Qingyou, president and chief economist of the Financial Research Institute, said that lowering the RRR and raising interest rates will definitely happen, and from the downward trend of previous interest rates, it should be faster. Regarding the current market conditions, Guan Qingyou said that different subjects have different judgments on the market trend in one or two trading days, but he is still optimistic, and said that the positive impact of the current policy change on the capital market cannot be underestimated. Combining industrial structure and policy orientation, Guan Qingyou said that consumer companies, technology companies, and mergers and acquisitions involving the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries to emerging formats are all his optimistic directions. In addition, for the economic growth target in 2025, Guan Qingyou believes that "the target of 5% can still be contested". He also said that 2025 will be better than 2024. "In 2025, the adjustment of policies will bring more increments to the market and industry." (sohu finance)Zhongjing Technology: Changzhou Jinhong, a shareholder, intends to reduce its shareholding by no more than 3%. Zhongjing Technology announced that Changzhou Jinhong Enterprise Management Partnership (Limited Partnership), a shareholder holding more than 5%, intends to reduce its shareholding in the company by means of centralized bidding and block trading, with the reduction amount not exceeding 18,886,100 shares, that is, not exceeding 3% of the company's total share capital. The reduction price will be determined according to the market price when the reduction is implemented. This reduction will be carried out within three months after 15 trading days from the date of disclosure of this announcement.
Strategy guide 12-14
Strategy guide
12-14
Strategy guide
12-14