Ramsden, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England: The Phnom Penh bond market is operating in an orderly manner, but there are also vulnerabilities such as leverage ratio and concentration of hedge funds.Black futures continued to rise, the main contracts of coking coal and coke rose by more than 3%, the main contracts of thread and iron ore rose by nearly 3%, and the main contracts of hot coil rose by more than 2%.Xinhua Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.: It plans to acquire no more than 75% equity of Noah Shengnuo. Xinhua Pharmaceutical announced that the company signed an Intention Agreement on Equity Acquisition with NovoSanaB.V on December 9, 2024, and plans to acquire no more than 75% equity of Noah Shengnuo in cash, and will become its controlling shareholder after the acquisition. The specific acquisition plan and transaction price will be determined according to the results of due diligence, audit and evaluation.
Market news: Putin will extend the permission of some Russian companies not to consider voting by shareholders from unfriendly countries until the end of 2025.The Syrian opposition authorized Mohamed Al-Bashir to form a transitional government. According to pro-Syrian opposition media reports on the 9th, the opposition authorized Mohamed Al-Bashir, the "Government of Saving the Country in Syria", to form a transitional government in Syria. The "Syrian Government for Salvation" was established by the Syrian opposition, with Bashir as its prime minister. (Xinhua News Agency)
Dongfang Jincheng: In 2025, the policy interest rate cut may reach 0.5 percentage points. the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee held a meeting on December 9 to analyze and study the economic work in 2025. Dongfang Jincheng judges that in 2025, the central bank will continue to implement vigorous interest rate cuts and RRR cuts, among which the policy rate cuts may reach 0.5 percentage points, which is significantly higher than the rate cut of 0.3 percentage points this year, and the interest rates of various structural monetary policy instruments will also be lowered in a timely manner, thus guiding the financing costs of enterprises and residents to go down. It is not ruled out that in 2025, it is possible to continue to implement a large-scale targeted interest rate cut on residential mortgages by greatly guiding the downward trend of LPR quotations for more than five years. (The Paper)Central bank sources and two Syrian commercial bankers: the Syrian Central Bank and commercial banks will resume operations on Tuesday, and the staff will be required to go to work.Ministry of Health of Gaza: Since October 7, 2023, 44,758 Palestinians have been killed and 106,134 injured in Israeli military attacks on the Gaza.