SpaceX is valued at about $350 billion due to internal stock sales. According to an email sent to employees seen by the media, SpaceX and its investors have agreed to acquire the company's common stock of up to $1.25 billion at a price of $185 per share. This transaction values the rocket and satellite manufacturer owned by elon musk at about $350 billion. The memo said that the price of $185 per share was much higher than the valuation of $112 less than three months ago. The memorandum was further confirmed by insiders. According to the memo, only SpaceX offered to buy up to $500 million in common stock.Guosen Securities: The public offering of corporate bonds to professional investors was approved by the China Securities Regulatory Commission. Guosen Securities announced that the company had received the approval of the China Securities Regulatory Commission to publicly issue corporate bonds with a total face value not exceeding 20 billion yuan to professional investors. This issuance of corporate bonds shall be conducted in strict accordance with the prospectus submitted to Shenzhen Stock Exchange. The reply shall be valid within 24 months from the date of consent to registration, and the company may issue corporate bonds in installments within the validity period of registration.Sarah Friar, CFO of OpenAI: Corporate customers will pay (at least) thousands of dollars for using artificial intelligence (AI) tools. In the end, it will be reasonable.
The Bank of Korea increased its liquidity to try to calm the market sentiment, and the Bank of Korea increased its capital injection into the financial market, promising to provide "unlimited liquidity" after the political turmoil intensified. According to the website of the Bank of Korea, the liquidity increased by 14.1 trillion won ($9.8 billion) through repurchase operations last week. The scale of such operations was 18.5 trillion won in November and only 1.5 trillion won in October.Anhui Construction Engineering Co., Ltd.: A major project that won the bid of 15.506 billion yuan was announced by Anhui Construction Engineering Co., Ltd., and the company and its subsidiaries recently received the notice of winning the bid. The winning project is the Yangtze River Bridge and wiring project of Taishan Road in Wuhu, S24 Hanghe Expressway. The project is located in Wuhu City, and its main contents include investment, financing, survey and design, construction, operation management, maintenance, debt repayment and handover, with a total investment of about 15.506 billion yuan. The construction period of the project is 48 months and the charging period is 356 months. This project was jointly won by a consortium composed of several companies, such as CCCC Second Waterway Engineering Bureau Co., Ltd..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.
Mercedes-Benz Group Co., Ltd. announced the personnel changes of the board of directors, and the Board of Supervisors of Mercedes-Benz Group Co., Ltd. decided the personnel changes of the board of directors. In 2025, Hubertus Troska, Sabine Kohleisen and Renata Jungo Brüngger, members of the board of directors of Mercedes-Benz Group, will retire after the contract expires. At the same time, the Board of Supervisors decided to appoint Oliver Thöne, Mathias Geisen and Olaf Schick as new board members.Huadian energy: The subordinate power plants and holding companies received government subsidies of 22.33 million yuan. huadian energy announced that the subordinate power plants and holding companies of the company received government subsidies related to income of 22.33 million yuan on December 9, 2024. Among them, Harbin No.3 Power Plant of huadian energy Co., Ltd. received a government subsidy of 10.87 million yuan, and Harbin Thermal Power Co., Ltd. received a government subsidy of 11.46 million yuan. In accordance with the relevant provisions of Accounting Standards for Business Enterprises No.16-Government Subsidies, the company included this subsidy in the current profit and loss, and it is estimated that the total profit of the company in 2024 will be increased by 8.39 million yuan.Meituan Enterprise Edition released the SIMPLE model: to meet the demands of enterprise consumption compliance, cost reduction and efficiency improvement, and experience improvement. Meituan Enterprise Edition held the second enterprise consumption management conference of "SIMPLE Activating Enterprise Endogenous Force" in Shanghai. At the meeting, Renmin University Business School, Meituan Enterprise Edition, Meituan Research Institute and Ipsos jointly released the SIMPLE model, focusing on serving enterprise consumption management and digital transformation. At present, the scale of consumption expenditure of enterprises in China has reached trillion level, and "integration of supply chain, scene management and control, and service performance" will become the key to competition in the future. (Sina Technology)