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The three major U.S. stock indices all fell, with "two houses" soaring over 30%, and Faraday Future rising nearly 80%

U.S. stocks closed lower on Monday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average initially down 0.97%, the S&P 500 down 1%, and the Nasdaq down 1.19%. Nike and Boeing fell over 2%, leading the Dow.

Most large tech stocks declined, with Tesla down over 3%, losing $45.7 billion in market value, Intel down over 2%, and Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta down over 1%. Google and Netflix saw slight declines. NVIDIA rose against the trend by 0.3%, while Faraday Future surged 78%.

Chinese concept stocks generally fell, with the Nasdaq Golden Dragon China Index down 1.9%. Lotus Technology fell over 13%, Kingsoft Cloud down more than 8%, Suodi Biotechnology down over 8%, XPeng down over 6%, Li Auto down over 4%, and ZEEKR down over 3%. Ma Zhixing rose over 11%, while Alibaba fell 1%.

Germany's main stock index ended its best two-year rally since 2013, far surpassing European indices including the UK's FTSE 100 and France's CAC 40, but still lagging behind the S&P 500. Among individual stocks, SAP SE was the biggest contributor to the index's rise in 2024, accounting for nearly one-third of the increase.

Due to the New Year's holiday, financial markets in Hong Kong, France, the UK, New Zealand, and Australia will close early, while Japan, South Korea, and Germany's financial markets will be closed. On Wednesday, financial markets in major countries and regions worldwide, except India, will be closed. On Thursday, financial markets in New Zealand and Japan will be closed.

Faraday Future will hold a special delivery ceremony

Faraday Future's stock initially surged to trigger a trading halt, having risen over 51% last week. The company announced that renowned entrepreneur Mr. Luke Hans will officially receive his new FF 912.0 Futurist Alliance electric vehicle in mid-January 2025. A special delivery ceremony will be held in Los Angeles, attended by FF executives.

Major U.S. exchanges will be closed on January 9

In memory of the late former President Carter, major U.S. exchanges will be closed for one day on January 9, with the bond market closing early, and the federal government will shut down for one day.

Analysts are optimistic about Tesla's fourth-quarter deliveries

Analysts generally expect Tesla's fourth-quarter delivery volume to be around 511,000 units, higher than the 484,507 units in the same period last year.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has launched an antitrust investigation into Microsoft, focusing on software bundling

ByteDance plans to spend $7 billion next year to purchase NVIDIA chips

Currently negotiating with data center operators regarding the use of Blackwell chips.

MicroStrategy increased its holdings by 2,138 bitcoins by the end of the year, bringing total holdings to 446,400 bitcoins

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac soar, with moguls claiming the two houses are expected to be released from conservatorship under Trump 2.0

The stock prices of U.S. mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac surged in the U.S. OTC market, with billionaire Bill Ackman posting about the optimistic sentiment that these two companies may be able to exit federal government conservatorship in the next two years"During Trump's first term, he attempted multiple times to privatize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Market news indicates that BYD has launched a humanoid robot project

Codenamed "Yao Shun Yu." The company responded: no comment.

JD Technology announces that it will achieve an average salary of 20 times for all employees by 2025

This is JD Group's large-scale salary increase plan following the announcement of the 2024 year-end bonus distribution plan and the salary increase notice for over 20,000 JD customer service staff at the end of 2024.

Ministry of Finance of China: The proportion of new energy vehicles in the total annual procurement of official vehicles should not be less than 30% in principle

Han Wenxiu from the Central Financial Office: It is necessary to appropriately lower the reserve requirement ratio and interest rates, and make good use of tools such as open market operations

Han Wenxiu, deputy director in charge of daily work at the Central Financial Office, pointed out in an article in the People's Daily that a moderately loose monetary policy should be implemented. Further leverage the dual functions of the total amount and structure of monetary policy tools to ensure that the growth of social financing scale and money supply aligns with economic growth and the expected targets for overall price levels. Implement a more proactive fiscal policy. Coordinate various fiscal funds such as revenue and bonds, and effectively utilize various fiscal policy tools such as taxes, deficits, and transfer payments to ensure that fiscal policy continues to exert force and becomes more effective. It is necessary to increase the fiscal deficit ratio, expand the scale of the deficit, increase the issuance of ultra-long-term special government bonds and local government special bonds, and intensify fiscal expenditure to ensure a strong boost to economic growth.

Conch Materials Technology: Plans to globally offer 145 million H-shares through Hong Kong IPO

Conch Materials Technology plans to globally offer 145 million H-shares through a Hong Kong IPO, with the offer price not exceeding HKD 3.3 per share and expected not to be lower than HKD 3.0 per share. The H-shares are expected to begin trading on the Stock Exchange on January 9, 2025 (Thursday)