The Nikkei 225 index closed up 1.21% at 39,849.14.Guoxuan Hi-Tech: It plans to invest a total of 2.514 billion euros to build new energy battery production bases in Slovakia and Morocco. Guoxuan Hi-Tech announced that the company plans to invest in Slovakia with its own and self-raised funds to build high-performance lithium batteries and supporting projects with an annual output of 20GWh, with a total investment of no more than 1.234 billion euros. On the same day, it was announced that the company plans to invest in Morocco with its own and self-raised funds to build a high-performance lithium battery and supporting projects with an annual output of 20GWh, with a total investment of no more than 1.28 billion euros.The downtime lasted more than 4 hours, and the failure of ChatGPT and Sora services has been fully repaired. On the afternoon of December 12, Beijing time, OpenAI updated the accident report and said that API, ChatGPT and Sora services have now fully resumed operation. Earlier today, OpenAI confirmed that ChatGPT, its chat robot, experienced a worldwide downtime, and Sora and API were also affected. It is understood that the fault lasted about 4 hours and 10 minutes. OpenAI said that it will conduct a comprehensive root cause analysis of this failure.
Guoxuan Hi-Tech: China, the strategic shareholder, continued to give up voting rights. Guoxuan Hi-Tech announced that Guoxuan Holdings, Li Zhen and Jerry Lee (collectively referred to as the "founding shareholders") and China, the strategic shareholder of the company, signed a Supplementary Agreement on the Shareholders' Agreement of Guoxuan Hi-Tech Co., Ltd., and Volkswagen China agreed to extend the commitment period of giving up voting rights. That is to say, within 72 months after the relevant shares of the company involved in the non-public offering and share transfer are registered in the name of Volkswagen China or within a longer period determined by Volkswagen China, it will irrevocably give up the voting rights of some of its shares in the company, so that the voting rights of Volkswagen China will be at least 5% lower than that of the founding shareholder. Volkswagen China's extension of the period of giving up its voting rights commitment this time will not lead to the change of the company's control rights and will not affect the normal production and operation of the company. Mr. Li Zhen remains the actual controller of the company.ECB: Financing conditions are relaxing, ECB: Financing conditions are relaxing. However, because monetary policy is still restrictive and past interest rate hikes are still being transmitted to the credit stock, financing conditions are still tightening. Inflation prospect, core inflation and its transmission will determine the interest rate path.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)
European Central Bank: It is estimated that the GDP growth rate will be 0.7% in 2024, 1.1% in 2025, 1.4% in 2026 and 1.3% in 2027. (It is expected to be 0.8%, 1.3% and 1.5% respectively in September) It is estimated that the core inflation rate will be 2.9% in 2024, 2.3% in 2025 and 1.9% in 2026. (It is expected to be 2.8%, 2.3% and 2.0% respectively in September) It is estimated that the core inflation rate will be 1.9% in 2027.The turnover of Shanghai, Shenzhen and Beijing exceeded 1.5 trillion yuan, 52.2 billion yuan more than the previous day. Up to now, the turnover of Shanghai, Shenzhen and Beijing exceeded 1.5 trillion yuan, 52.2 billion yuan more than the previous day. Among them, the turnover of Shanghai Stock Exchange was 584.4 billion yuan, that of Shenzhen Stock Exchange was 899.8 billion yuan, and that of Beizheng 50 was 15.8 billion yuan.Analyst: The interest rate of the European Central Bank will be pushed to the low end of the neutral range. Marchel Alexandrovich, an economist at Saltmarsh Economics, said that the European Central Bank cut interest rates by 25 basis points again, which is the fourth time in this easing cycle. The monetary policy statement reiterated that the Committee would not commit to a specific interest rate path in advance. However, the new forecast shows that the core inflation rate is 1.9% in 2026 and 2027, which indicates that interest rates may continue to push to the low end of the neutral range.