Summary
On Wednesday, Eastern Time, the three major US stock indexes diverged. As of press time, the Dow rose 0.62%, the Nasdaq fell 0.06%, and the S&P 500 rose 0.43%. In terms of sectors, vaccine concept stocks generally fell. Moderna fell nearly 7%, Novavax Pharmaceuticals fell nearly 5%, and BioNTech fell more than 4%.
On Wednesday, Eastern Time, the three major US stock indexes diverged. As of press time, the Dow rose 0.62%, the Nasdaq fell 0.06%, and the S&P 500 rose 0.43%.
In terms of sectors, vaccine concept stocks generally fell. Moderna fell nearly 7%,Novavax PharmaceuticalsDown nearly 5%, BioNTech fell more than 4%.
The following is the globalmarketSummary of important information:
Global macro
United Nations: Asia-Pacific trade outperforms the rest of the world in 2020
United Nations Asia andThe Pacific Oceaneconomic SocietyCommittee(ESCAP) The “Asia-Pacific Trade andinvestment“Trend Briefing” stated that due to the new crown pneumonia epidemic and intensified trade tensions, the global economy is slowing down. Global trade is expected to drop by 14.5% in 2020, but the Asia-Pacific region performs better than the rest of the world.
Trump refuses to sign the new crown bailout bill
Agence France-Presse just reported that Trump refused to sign the new crown bailout bill. It is reported that on the 21st local time, the U.S. Congress reached a consensus on a US$900 billion epidemic assistance program.The funds will be used forenterpriseandunemploymentProject provides funds.
Five factors affect the recovery of the U.S. economy in 2021
The new crown pneumonia epidemic ended the longest economic expansion cycle in U.S. history. The actualGDP(GDP) Recorded a record contraction of 31.4% in the second quarter. The U.S. economy rebounded sharply in the third quarter following the restart, but the new round of the epidemic has caused a significant slowdown in economic growth.
European Union Chief Negotiator Barnier: Negotiations may continue in January
On December 22, local time, an EU source told the media that if the EU-UK future relations negotiations still fail to reach an agreement, the two parties may continue the negotiations in the new year. It is reported that this news comes from a statement made by Michel Barnier, the chief negotiator of the European Union for negotiations on the future of the EU-UK relations. Barnier said that the EU will not close the door to negotiations with the United Kingdom, and even plans to continue negotiations with the United Kingdom after January 1.
Recently, the British epidemic has attracted worldwide attention.Vaccination has been carried out in the UKjobs, The United Kingdom divided the population into 11 batches, all vaccinations are free, and medical staff will notify relevant personnel according to the waiting batch. The first batch of vaccinations are the elderly over 90 years old and the staff of nursing homes, about 1 million people. The last group is people under the age of 50 with no other diseases, about 40 million people.
U.S. stocks in focus
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said on Tuesday that it has approved the New York Stock Exchange’s plan to allow so-called direct listings and allowthe companyRaising new funds through direct listing will make direct listing more popular.
MidlandReserve pairbankRepurchaseRelax beyondWall StreetUnexpected.Some investment banks said that next yearStock repurchaseMay be as high asbankMarket valueOf 10%. However, it should be noted thatbankToshareholderThe return of capital is restricted, and stocksRepurchaseTogether with dividends, it cannot exceed the average earnings of the previous four quarters, due to the bank’s establishment of loan losses in early 2020Reserve，profitIt was hit, so even if banks began to buy back shares in the first half of this year, they were restricted.
In 2020, negativeinterest ratePolicy, a tool once regarded by many central banks as the ultimate big move, has become the focus of the market. The means sacrificed in March-sharp interest rate cuts and QE’s “medicine power” have been exhausted, but due to the second wave of epidemics, economic recovery is still not on track.
US stock company
News from December 23, Beijing time,TeslaCEO Elon Musk postedTwitterSaid that in the darkest days of the Model 3 project, I had foundappleCEO Tim Cook discussedappleAcquisitionTeslaPossibility, but Cook refused to meet.
The acquisition of another city IBM fully bet on cloud computing
After tasting the sweetness brought by cloud computing, IBM is more concerned about this sector.On December 21, local time, IBM announced that it would acquire Nordcloud, a cloud consulting service provider from Finland, hoping toborrowThis gains an advantage in the increasingly fierce cloud computing battle.
The recent hot “community group buying” ushered in heavy regulations.according toMarket SupervisionAccording to the State Administration of Taxation, on the afternoon of December 22, the State Administration for Market Regulation and the Ministry of Commerce organized an administrative guidance meeting to regulate community group buying order.Alibaba, Tencent,Jingdong, Meituan,Pinduoduo, Didi and other 6the InternetPlatform companies participate.
Long video melee for ten years, iqiyi can’t hold back for the first time
This is the tenth year of fighting among the three long video websites of Aiyouten. Tencent began to build a long, medium and short video content ecosystem,IQIYIRepeatedly rumored to be acquired, Youku seems to have gradually fallen behind.
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