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Australia's business confidence has fallen sharply, and the economic outlook is not optimistic. Australia's business confidence index fell sharply in November, and the current situation index measuring employment, sales and profitability has further weakened, once again indicating that the private sector in the economy is facing heavy pressure. According to a survey released by the National Bank of Australia on Tuesday, the business confidence index dropped by 8 points to -3, reversing the gains in October. The status quo index dropped from 7 to 2. "Overall, the survey shows that growth continued to be weak in the fourth quarter," the bank said in the report. As the capacity utilization rate is still above average, it may take more time for price pressure to fully return to normal. The Reserve Bank of Australia will announce its last interest rate decision this year in a few hours, and it is almost certain that the policy interest rate will remain at a 13-year high of 4.35%. Last week's data showed that Australia's GDP was weak again in the third quarter, prompting traders to advance their expectations of interest rate cuts from May next year to April.Six Guatemalans were arrested on suspicion of an immigrant truck accident. On December 9, local time, the United States and Guatemala jointly announced that six Guatemalans were arrested. They are suspected of human smuggling and involved in the accident that the vehicle carrying immigrants overturned in Mexico in 2021. The suspect will be charged with conspiracy, endangering life, causing serious personal injury and causing death. In 2021, a truck carrying more than 160 immigrants crashed into a bridge pillar of an overpass in Tustra Gutierrez, the capital of Chiapas in southern Mexico, killing more than 50 people.More than 1,000 A-share companies have issued shareholder return plans, and both the mid-term dividend and the third quarterly dividend reached record highs this year. Since the beginning of this year, more than 1,000 A-share listed companies have issued shareholder return plans, focusing on the company's long-term and sustainable development, and making institutional arrangements for profit distribution in the next three or five years based on the actual business development and shareholders' wishes. Among them, many leading enterprises with large market capitalization have made high dividend commitments. Judging from the dividend situation in 2024, under the guidance of policies, the dividend rhythm of listed companies has been continuously optimized. During the year, the number and amount of A-share listed companies that have announced interim dividends and third quarterly dividends have set a new record, and the awareness of listed companies to repay investors has been continuously enhanced. (Economic Information Daily)

Galaxy Securities: When the IP layout of "Millet Economy" was carried out, the china galaxy Securities Research Report indicated that "Millet Economy" was highly prosperous, and high-quality IP was the key. In 2024, IP products will continue to maintain a high degree of popularity, from Xiaoma Baolika brand in the first half of the year to Guzi store and Jellycat pop-up shop since the third quarter, with strong market demand. It is believed that IP creation is the core of "millet" and tide play consumption, and the influence of IP plays an important role in attracting fans and integrating multiple formats. As the key to accumulate users and break the circle of products, high-quality IP can attract consumers and extend the product life cycle. Therefore, in the current environment of high market attention and strong demand, the high prosperity of high-quality IP products is expected to be maintained. It is suggested to follow up on two tracks: the track with stable performance foundation or obvious supply-side recovery, and the track with high cost performance, and the elastic variety with incremental dimension or improvement of external factors: 1) Hong Kong stock Internet: the profit improvement expectation of Head Internet Company is strengthened, and the cost performance of investment is prominent. It is suggested to pay attention to Tencent Holdings, which has steady growth in various businesses and stable fundamentals, and the Internet video platform company, which turned losses for the first time in a single quarter and continuously improved its profitability. 2) Publishing industry: The publishing industry will accelerate the development of digitalization, personalization, customization and intelligence, and the new amount of AI+ publishing and research business will bring new opportunities to the industry, and the market value management of central enterprises will be included in the assessment. It is suggested to pay attention to: Shandong Publishing and Southern Media, which are stable in fundamentals and have certain business incremental space; 3) Cinema & Game Industry: High-quality content is always a scarce resource in the industry. It is suggested to pay attention to the game and cinema companies under AI empowerment: Shenzhou Taiyue, Bona Film, WANDA CINEMAS and so on, which have rich content reserves. 4) With regard to IP derivatives, it is recommended to pay attention to POP MART, the leader of the IP craze retail market.Tencent Video announced that it will adjust the rights and interests of VIP devices, and the rights and interests of old members will remain unchanged. Tencent Video released a statement on the adjustment of member rights and interests, saying that it will adjust the rights and interests of Tencent Video VIP devices from December 16, 2024. Tencent video VIP members who purchase, collect and activate after 0:00 on December 16th, 2024 can log in with 3 devices and play with 1 device at the same time within the validity period of this order member. Tencent Video said that the rights and interests of VIP old members remain unchanged: Tencent video VIP members who have subscribed for a continuous monthly/quarterly/annual subscription before December 16, 2024, if they continue to subscribe, will enjoy the rights of logging in 5 devices and playing 2 devices at the same time. Tencent video VIP members who purchase, collect and activate monthly/seasonal/annual cards before December 16th, 2024 can also enjoy the rights of logging in 5 devices and playing 2 devices at the same time within the validity period of this order member. Tencent video SVIP membership rights are not affected by this adjustment and remain unchanged.Greater Bay Area's major projects are new! The Huangmaohai Cross-sea Passage was officially opened to traffic at 15: 00 on the 11th. It was learned exclusively from Guangdong Transportation Department that the Huangmaohai Cross-sea Passage Project, one of the major projects in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, will be officially opened to traffic at 15: 00 on December 11th. It takes about 30 minutes from Zhuhai, Guangdong to Jiangmen, Guangdong, and the three-dimensional traffic network in Greater Bay Area is further dense. The reporter learned that in the early stage of the opening of the project, the public will be temporarily exempted from the road tolls of the project, and the detailed fees will be disclosed separately in the next step. (CCTV)

The weighted share price index of Taiwan Stock Exchange opened 0.2% lower at 23,228.26.CITIC Securities' Outlook for OpenAI Release: The commercialization of AI will accelerate again. According to CITIC Securities Research Report, according to its official website, OpenAI announced that it will announce new products and functions for 12 consecutive working days from December 5th. At present, the official version of o1, ChatGPT Pro, enhanced fine-tuning and other functions have been released. We expect that the main directions of subsequent release will include multimodal, Agent and platform tools, AI applications, etc. The main products will include the foresight of important products such as Sora and Operator. At present, the rapid prosperity of model ecology, considering the upgrading of model capabilities and the lowering of industrialization threshold, combined with the application landing forms such as Agent, we expect that the landing of AI applications will continue to accelerate in 2025.In October, China's corporate credit index was 158.83 points, and the trend of steady improvement continued to consolidate. The General Administration of Market Supervision announced today (10th) that in October, 2024, China's corporate credit index was 158.83 points, up 0.47 points from September, and the steady improvement of corporate credit level continued to consolidate. Regionally, the top five provinces and cities in the credit index are Beijing, Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shaanxi. From the perspective of industry, the index of accommodation and catering industry increased the most. In addition, the ranking of scientific research and technical service industry index has improved significantly, and it entered the top 5 of the index for the first time this year. The ranking of leasing and business services rose by two places, reaching a new high this year.