Sources: The current Secretary-General of OPEC, Ghais, will be re-elected. Four representatives of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) said that the organization will re-elect the current Secretary-General Haitham Al-Ghais for a three-year term at a virtual meeting on December 10th. A source said that the meeting will start at 18:30 Beijing time today and is expected to be short and only deal with administrative affairs.Oracle Bone Inscriptions's revenue in the fiscal quarter did not surprise investors. The stock price fell after hours, and the quarterly revenue of database giant Oracle Bone Inscriptions met expectations, which disappointed some investors who hoped that the cloud business would perform better. Oracle Bone Inscriptions shares fell in after-hours trading. Oracle Bone Inscriptions announced after-hours Monday that its second-quarter revenue increased by 9% to $14.1 billion. Cloud business revenue increased by 52% to $2.4 billion, in line with analysts' expectations. Oracle Bone Inscriptions has been trying to find its foothold in the computing and storage leasing market, which is now dominated by larger competitors Amazon and Microsoft. Larry Ellision, chairman of Oracle Bone Inscriptions, paid special attention to the company's ability to provide hardware and integrated software for handling artificial intelligence tasks. Safra Catz, CEO of Oracle Bone Inscriptions, said in the performance conference call that the company expects revenue growth of about 8% in the third quarter, excluding some projects, earnings per share is expected to be between 1.47 and 1.51 dollars, and cloud business revenue is expected to increase by about 24%. These performance prospects are not as good as analysts' estimates. Oracle Bone Inscriptions shares closed at $190.45 on Monday, down about 7% in after-hours trading. The company's share price has soared by 81% this year.Australia's business confidence has fallen sharply, and the economic outlook is not optimistic. Australia's business confidence index fell sharply in November, and the current situation index measuring employment, sales and profitability has further weakened, once again indicating that the private sector in the economy is facing heavy pressure. According to a survey released by the National Bank of Australia on Tuesday, the business confidence index dropped by 8 points to -3, reversing the gains in October. The status quo index dropped from 7 to 2. "Overall, the survey shows that growth continued to be weak in the fourth quarter," the bank said in the report. As the capacity utilization rate is still above average, it may take more time for price pressure to fully return to normal. The Reserve Bank of Australia will announce its last interest rate decision this year in a few hours, and it is almost certain that the policy interest rate will remain at a 13-year high of 4.35%. Last week's data showed that Australia's GDP was weak again in the third quarter, prompting traders to advance their expectations of interest rate cuts from May next year to April.
Guotai Junan: Policy optimization or help improve the long-term return of the expressway industry. Guotai Junan Research Report pointed out that location advantage determines the return of road production, and policy optimization or help improve the long-term return of the expressway industry. 1) Expressway is the preferred way to deliver high dividends. In the past three years, the A-share market favored high dividends, and the excess returns of expressways were remarkable. The dividend yield depends on the dividend rate and PE valuation level. Expressway is an infrastructure asset with heavy assets and stable returns, with rigid demand and stable cash flow, and the high dividend policy continues, which is in line with market preferences. 2) Resilience of industry operation: In 2023, the repressive demand was released and the performance increased. In the first half of 2024, the industry was under pressure due to the increase of rain and snow and free days. In the second half of 2024, or due to economic impact, the traffic volume and profit of some high-speed vehicles decreased slightly, the traffic demand remained resilient and the cash flow remained stable. 3) The pressure of reinvestment may be expected to improve the policy. Expressway toll prices have been stable for a long time, while the cost of newly built or renovated units has risen sharply, and there is widespread reinvestment pressure in the industry. In the future, the industry is expected to optimize policies, or improve the high-speed return of new construction or expansion to a reasonable level by extending the charging period. 4) Expressway REITs: generally, they are stock road products with excellent location and stable returns. In 2023, the system was under pressure, and in 2024, the expressway REITs with better profit than the industry were among the top gainers. The performance of underlying assets in the future will still be the key to dominate the performance of REITs.Bruker sprinted for the IPO of Hong Kong stocks, Bruker Group Co., Ltd. updated its prospectus and tried to list on the main board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange for the second time. The co-sponsors are Goldman Sachs (Asia) Securities and Huatai Financial Holdings. According to Jost Sullivan's report, Bruker's market share in China's patchwork role toy market and China's patchwork toy market is 30.3% and 7.4% respectively. Bruker's toy products are mainly divided into two categories: "assembling role toys" and "building block toys", and the prices of mainstream products range from 19.9 yuan to 399 yuan. Most of Bruco's revenue comes from the sales of products based on Altman IP, accounting for 63.5% and 57.4% of its revenue in 2023 and the first half of 2024 respectively.Japanese and Korean stock markets opened higher, with the Nikkei 225 index rising 0.55% to 39,375.49 points. South Korea's KOSPI index rose 1% to 2,384.51 points.
Xiaoyu Zhizao, Xiaomi's first furniture model company, completed a round of financing of 100 million yuan, and Beijing Xiaoyu Zhizao Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Xiaoyu Zhizao), the first large model robot company invested by Xiaomi, completed a round of financing of 100 million yuan. This round of financing is exclusively invested by Beijing Information Industry Development Investment Fund. This is the second time that Xiaoyu Zhizao has received billion-dollar financing after Angel Wheel received billion-dollar investment from Xiaomi Group, Professor Wang Tianmiao and Beijing Zhiyuan Research Institute. Xiaoyu Zhizao was founded by the core founding team of Xiaomi Group in 2023, focusing on the development of large-scale model robot technology suitable for industrial fields, and has developed the "Xiaoyu Brain" universal robot brain, which enables robots to perform various tasks in the industrial environment. (science and technology innovation board Daily)China Seismological Network officially determined that a magnitude 5.7 earthquake occurred in Nevada, USA (39.05 degrees north latitude and 118.85 degrees west longitude) at 07: 08 on December 10th with a focal depth of 10 kilometers.Guotai Junan: Airline naked fares will keep rising year-on-year, and the pressure on oil prices will continue to improve. Guotai Junan Research Report said that the recent trend of passenger flow and load factor conforms to the characteristics of off-season, and is better than the same period in 2023. The pressure on oil prices has improved significantly since the fourth quarter of 2024. In December, the ex-factory price of domestic jet fuel increased slightly by 3% from the previous month and decreased by 17% year-on-year, continuing the downward trend of the central government. Recently, domestic naked fares have kept rising year-on-year, and it is estimated that more than half of the fuel has been reduced, reflecting that the recovery of supply and demand is better than expected, and it is expected that the off-season will greatly reduce losses year-on-year. Considering that the recent decline in international oil prices will be transmitted to China with a delay of about two months, the oil price pressure will continue to improve in the first quarter of 2025. It is predicted that the concentration of passenger flow in Spring Festival travel rush in the first half of 2025 will contribute to the active revenue management of the airline company, and the peak season may show more than expected profit elasticity and catalyze optimistic expectations. Reaffirm the logic of super cycle and long period of aviation equipment. When supply and demand recover, considering the marketization of fares and the slowdown of fleet growth, the profit center can be expected to rise.
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