The United States announced the 72nd aid plan to Ukraine, Pentagon: The Biden administration has so far promised that the total aid to Ukraine has exceeded $63.5 billion. According to Fox News, the Biden administration announced on the 12th local time that it would provide Ukraine with a new military aid plan of $500 million. In addition, the Biden administration will continue to provide military assistance to Ukraine until its term expires in January 2025. According to the U.S. Department of Defense, so far, the total amount of military aid promised by Biden's government to Ukraine has exceeded $63.5 billion. However, CNN said that before Biden left office, the Pentagon was unlikely to use nearly $7 billion of surplus funds approved by Congress to arm Ukraine, mainly because the military's ability to replenish stocks was limited. (World Wide Web) Foreign media: Satellite images show that Russia is packing up equipment at the Syrian air base. According to a report on the website of Lianhe Zaobao in Singapore on December 14, the satellite images of Maxar Technology Company in the United States show that Russia seems to be packing up military equipment at an air base in Syria. According to the satellite image taken on December 13th, at least two An -124 transport planes' noses were raised at the Hermimim Air Force Base in Latakia province, which is located on the Syrian coast. Maxar Technology said that the nose doors of two An -124 heavy transport planes parked on the apron have been opened, ready to load equipment and goods. A nearby Ka -52 helicopter gunship is being dismantled and may be ready for transportation, while the personnel of the S-400 Triumph air defense missile system are also preparing to leave from the previous air base deployment site. (Reference message)
Challenging the monopoly of Europe and America, Chinese and Indian manufacturers have laid out the track of diet pills. For some time, GLP-1 (glucagon-like peptide -1) diet pills have caught fire in the United States and other western countries, and gradually marched into emerging markets. At present, two major pharmaceutical companies, Novo Nordisk in Denmark and Lilly in the United States, occupy most of the market share in the field of GLP-1 diet pills, but other pharmaceutical companies are also actively deploying the track. In 2026, Novo Nordisk's patent on smeagoutide will expire in China and India, while the patent on liraglutide, the main effective ingredient of the previous generation of GLP-1 diet pills, has expired in China and India. The industry believes that China and India, as two emerging markets, have a strong momentum of innovation and development in the pharmaceutical industry of both countries, and have great potential in the GLP-1 diet pills track. The entry of Chinese and Indian pharmaceutical companies will make the international competition in the field of GLP-1 diet pills more intense. (Global Times)At the end of November, China's broad money balance increased by 7.1% year-on-year, and the growth rate was basically stable. According to the data released by the People's Bank of China on the 13th, the growth rate of China's broad money (M2) was basically stable at the end of November, and the scale of social financing increased reasonably. In terms of money supply, at the end of November, the balance of broad money (M2) was 311.96 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 7.1%. Excluding the influence of the high base in 2023, the average growth rate of broad money (M2) was 8.6% at the end of November in 2023 and 2024. Maintain a reasonable and sufficient liquidity. In terms of financing scale, at the end of November, the stock of social financing scale was 405.6 trillion yuan, up 7.8% year-on-year, which basically matched the expected targets of economic and social growth and price level. Among them, the balance of RMB loans to the real economy was 251.69 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 7.4%; The balance of government bonds was 79.33 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 15.2%.
Moody's: Political division in France is more likely to hinder meaningful fiscal consolidation.National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC): We need to further strengthen the effective consumption promotion policies and support them with greater efforts. Wu Sa, deputy director of the Institute of Economics of the Macroeconomic Research Institute of the NDRC, said that it should be said that we have accumulated more and more experience in promoting consumption this year, whether it is the stock policy or the package of incremental policies. For example, the "two new" policy and the trade-in policy of consumer goods have greatly promoted the growth of consumption. This economic work conference also clearly pointed out that the effective consumption promotion policy should be further strengthened, and the scope should be expanded, the quality should be improved, and more efforts should be made to support it, which will inevitably bring better efforts to the consumption growth of household appliances, various household appliances and so on next year. In addition, this economic work conference also put forward many new policies to promote consumption, which will also affect the improvement of our consumer market next year, so it will have a greater supporting role for the consumer market next year. (CCTV News)Zhongjin's fixed income: the financing demand is weak under the background of debt conversion, and the monetary policy needs to continue to increase. Zhongjin's fixed income commented on the financial data in November, saying that it is expected that the currency will be loose or significantly accelerated next year, while the short-term interest rate may have a large downside. Under the background of slow real estate recovery, the domestic economy has stabilized relatively moderately, and the long-term interest rate has been affected or relatively limited. Next year, monetary and fiscal cooperation will be closer, and the supply factor of government bonds may not have much disturbance to the long end. Recently, the market has fully priced loose expectations, and the long-term interest rate has dropped rapidly. Next year, with the RRR cut, the short-term interest rate will fall or accelerate, and the yield curve will move down sharply.