Yamato: Raising the target price of IWC to HK$ 20 has a more positive view on next year's revenue growth. Yamato published a report that under the strong demand from Malaysia, the bank has a more positive view on IWC's revenue growth next year. In addition, the bank believes that the external financing of operating GDSI, a data center outside the mainland, will release shareholder value. However, as GDSI will be separated from IWC's consolidated statements in the fourth quarter of this year, the bank believes that IWC's short-term re-evaluation will still mainly depend on its mainland business performance, so it still maintains a wait-and-see attitude. The bank maintained its "hold" rating on IWC, and its target price was raised from HK$ 8.6 to HK$ 20. Considering the increase in capital expenditure of IWC from 2025 to 2026, the bank raised its revenue forecast for this year and next by 5% to 24%, mainly due to the strong demand in the international market driven by short video platforms. In addition, in view of the fact that the company raised its capital expenditure guideline from 6.5 billion yuan to 11 billion yuan this year, the bank raised its capital expenditure forecast from 6.7 billion yuan to 11 billion yuan in 2024 and from 3.5 billion yuan to 10.5 billion yuan in 2025. In addition, the bank will raise the adjusted EBITDA forecast of IWC this year and next by 4% to 13% to consider the EBITDA contribution of its overseas business; It is estimated that the total revenue will increase by 15% this year (10% compared with the previous forecast) and 33% next year (15% compared with the previous forecast). The adjusted EBITDA is expected to increase by 11% and 25% this year and next (8% and 15% compared with the previous forecast).Lan Foan met with World Trade Organization Director-General Ivira. On December 9, 2024, Minister Lan Foan met with World Trade Organization Director-General Ivira in Beijing. The two sides exchanged views on enhancing the transparency of subsidy policy, supporting the operation of global trust funds and maintaining the multilateral trading system.Increase to 6 flights per week. The Shanghai-Riyadh route of China Eastern Airlines will be encrypted soon. It was learned from China Eastern Airlines on December 12 that recently, China Eastern Airlines announced that it will encrypt the direct flight route from Shanghai to Riyadh from 3 flights per week to 6 flights per week from February 21, 2025.
A former employee of Adebio was sentenced and involved in AstraZeneca employees' insurance fraud case. A former employee of the genetic testing company Aidebio, which worked closely with AstraZeneca, committed medical insurance fraud together with AstraZeneca sales staff during his tenure in the company. He was sentenced to three years' imprisonment and fined for fraud, and I pleaded guilty. A judgment obtained shows that Ma, a former employee of Aide Bio involved in the case, conspired with AstraZeneca employees to tamper with the genetic test report during his tenure. He began to accept public security investigation in September 2021 and was sentenced in August 2023. However, on December 9, 2024, the company replied that "there is no problem (cooperation with AstraZeneca), which has no impact on us and has nothing to do with us" and denied that any employees were involved. (financial magazine)Xia Yiping's internal letter was alleged to have been copied from Weilai Li Bin. Xia Yiping, CEO of Jiyue, released an internal letter on the afternoon of 11th, acknowledging that the company was encountering difficulties and needed to adjust immediately. Some netizens pointed out that part of Xia Yiping's internal letter copied the internal letter of Weilai Li Bin in 2023. Xia Yiping's internal letter mentioned that the following four things must be done well in the new entrepreneurial period: 1. Adhere to the long-term investment in core technologies to maintain the leading edge; 2. Strengthen sales and service capacity building to cope with fierce market competition; 3. Merge departments and posts with duplicate functions and change inefficient internal workflow; 4. Reduce projects that cannot improve financial performance in the short term. In 2023, Li Bin's internal letter also mentioned: ensure long-term investment in core key technologies and maintain the leading edge of technology and products; Ensure that sales and service capabilities can cope with fierce market competition; Ensure that 9 core products of 3 brands are listed as scheduled; Organize efficiency improvement, merge redundant departments and posts, change inefficient internal workflow and division of labor, and cancel inefficient posts; Improve the efficiency of resources, postpone and reduce the project investment that can not improve the company's financial performance within 3 years. (Sina Technology)Speaker of South Korea's National Assembly: Yin Xiyue will never tolerate declaring martial law in order to warn the National Assembly. On the 12th, South Korea's National Assembly Speaker Yu Yuanzhi said that Yin Xiyue "declared emergency martial law in order to warn the National Assembly, which is absolutely intolerable in the constitutional order, because it means that the democratic constitutional order can be destroyed for political purposes, and the basic rights of the people can also be used as a means for political purposes". Yu Yuanzhi also said that today's presidential talk cannot lead to other misjudgments or social chaos, and Congress will deal with all possible situations.
Pakistan KSE-100 Index rose 2% to 113,268.80.The main fuel contract rose by 4.00% in the day and is now reported at 3188.00 yuan/ton.Kuwait set the price of crude oil sold to the Mediterranean region and northwest Europe in January at a discount of $4.90 per barrel.