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Mckinsey agreed to pay $650 million to settle the criminal investigation of opioids by the U.S. Department of Justice. Mckinsey submitted a five-year deferred prosecution agreement to the federal court in Abingdon, Virginia, and agreed to pay $650 million to settle the criminal investigation of the U.S. Department of Justice on its work in guiding the opioid manufacturer Purdue Pharmaceutical to increase sales. According to court documents, Martin Elling, a former senior partner of McKinsey, agreed to plead guilty to obstruction of justice because he destroyed McKinsey's consulting records for Purdue Pharmaceutical. He will plead guilty on January 10th next year. Mckinsey has previously reached various settlement agreements totaling nearly $1 billion. The company had previously faced lawsuits in several States in the United States, and was accused of providing sales analysis and marketing advice to pharmaceutical companies such as Purdue Pharmaceutical and Johnson & Johnson, which contributed to the popularity of opioids.Countering the price limit of Western countries, Putin extended the oil supply ban. On the 13th, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a presidential decree, announcing the extension of the counter-measures to set price ceilings for Russian oil and oil products until June 30, 2025. Putin signed a presidential decree on December 27, 2022, demanding that the supply of Russian petroleum and petroleum products to foreign legal persons and individuals who directly or indirectly use the price ceiling mechanism in their contracts be prohibited. This presidential decree came into effect on February 1, 2023, and its validity period was extended several times. In early December, 2022, EU member states reached an agreement on setting a price ceiling of $60 per barrel for Russian seaborne oil exports. The Group of Seven and Australia announced that they would implement the same price limit policy as the EU. (Xinhua News Agency)Morgan Stanley lowered the Nike target price from $82.00 to $80.00.

Nasdaq hit a record high in intraday trading, up 0.8%.Jintou Chengkai: The major asset restructuring plan was changed to asset sale, and Jintou Chengkai announced that in order to further optimize the company's asset structure, enhance profitability, reduce the debt level, improve efficiency, speed up the transaction process and reduce transaction costs, the company plans to transfer 46.33% equity of its shareholding subsidiary Huafugong Company. The original planned major asset restructuring includes the transfer of 90% equity of Huachi Company, 46.33% equity of Huafugong Company and 31.89% equity of Tianfang Property Company, which is expected to constitute a major asset restructuring. The adjusted plan is to transfer 46.33% equity of Huafugong Company to Tianjin Investment Capital, the controlling shareholder of the company, through a non-public agreement at a price of 233 million yuan. After the completion of this transaction, the company no longer holds the equity of Huafugong Company. This transaction constitutes a related party transaction, but it does not constitute a major asset reorganization, and it needs to be submitted to the company's shareholders' meeting for consideration.Domestic black futures closed down at night, domestic commodity futures closed mixed at night, and the performance of energy and chemical products was divided. Crude oil rose by 0.83%, fuel oil rose by 0.69%, PTA rose by 0.29%, glass fell by 4.03%, soda ash fell by 2.73% and LPG fell by 1.28%. Black series fell across the board, coking coal fell by 2.05%, coke by 1.97%, rebar by 0.5%, hot rolled coil by 0.43%, iron ore by 0.19% and thermal coal by 0%. Most agricultural products fell, including beans by 1.01%, sugar by 0.9%, Zheng Mian by 0.62%, cotton yarn by 0.58% and rapeseed meal by 0.53%.

Faba Bank: The Fed will formulate policies in consideration of inflation risks. Economists at Faba Bank wrote that it may be difficult for Fed officials to formulate and discuss monetary policies "without being involved in the debate on President-elect Trump's potential economic policies". They expect FOMC to cut interest rates by 25 basis points next week, as reflected by the market. They added that Federal Reserve Chairman Powell "may use the press conference to provide options for further relaxing the suspension of monetary policy." They don't expect him to directly comment on Trump's policies, "but FOMC will formulate policies consistent with managing high inflation risks," economists said.This week, the Shenzhen Stock Exchange took self-regulatory measures against 171 abnormal securities trading behaviors, and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange released regulatory trends: 1. Regulatory trends of listed companies (December 6-December 12, 2024) From December 6 to December 12, the Exchange took disciplinary action against one violation, involving information disclosure and standardized operation violations; Supervision letters were issued for 9 violations, 3 related to information disclosure and standardized operation violations, and 6 related to securities trading violations. This week, 18 inquiry letters and 5 other letters were sent out. II. Market Trading Supervision Dynamics (December 9-December 13, 2024) From December 9 to December 13, the Exchange took self-regulatory measures against 171 abnormal securities trading behaviors, involving abnormal trading situations such as intraday bidding, false declaration, etc. Focus on monitoring "*ST Tongzhou" with abnormal stock price fluctuation recently; A total of 9 major events of listed companies were verified, and 3 clues of suspected illegal cases were reported to the CSRC. (Issued by Shenzhen Stock Exchange)Ministry of Commerce: Make efforts to expand the scope, implement the trade-in policy of consumer goods and innovate diversified consumption scenarios. On December 13th, Wang Wentao, Party Secretary and Minister of the Ministry of Commerce, presided over a special meeting of the party group to convey the spirit of studying the Central Economic Work Conference. The meeting stressed that it is necessary to vigorously boost consumption. We will intensify efforts to expand the scope, implement the trade-in policy for consumer goods, innovate diversified consumption scenarios, expand service consumption, and actively develop the first-round economy. It is necessary to expand high-level opening to the outside world and stabilize foreign trade and foreign investment. We will expand independent opening and unilateral opening in an orderly manner, steadily expand institutional opening, and promote the free trade pilot zone to improve quality and efficiency and expand the reform mandate. Efforts should be made to stabilize trade in goods and actively develop service trade, green trade and digital trade. We will deepen the reform of foreign investment promotion system and mechanism, steadily push forward the opening of service industry, expand the pilot projects in the fields of telecommunications, medical care and education, and continue to build the brand of "Investing in China". Promote high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road", deepen and improve the overseas comprehensive service system.