Market News: NVIDIA has increased its recruitment in China, focusing on artificial intelligence to drive cars.South Korea will gradually reduce the rice planting area to cope with the decline in demand. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs of South Korea said on Thursday that South Korea will strive to gradually reduce the rice field area to solve the problem of declining demand and adopt environmentally-friendly planting methods. Due to the change of diet structure, the annual rice consumption of Koreans has decreased, and the per capita rice consumption has dropped significantly from 61 kg in 2018 to 56.4 kg in 2023. At present, the total area of rice fields in South Korea is about 698,000 hectares, and the government says it plans to reduce the area of rice fields by 80,000 hectares next year. In addition, by 2029, the planting area of environmentally friendly rice will be expanded from 35,000 hectares this year to 68,000 hectares. The government will also allocate 244 billion won (about 170 million US dollars) to subsidize farms that grow strategic crops other than rice, such as wheat, beans and barley, which is an increase from 186.5 billion won this year.Citigroup slightly lowered South Korea's GDP growth forecast to 1.5% next year. It is expected that the Bank of Korea will cut interest rates next month. Citigroup released a report saying that considering the worse economic sentiment in South Korea this month, it slightly lowered its GDP forecast for this year and next year by 0.1 percentage point to 2.1% and 1.5% respectively. The bank slightly lowered Korea's GDP growth forecast for the last quarter of this year by 0.1 percentage point to rise by 0.3% quarterly, and raised its GDP growth forecast for the first quarter of next year by 0.1 percentage point to rise by 0.6% quarterly. Looking forward to the first quarter of next year, the bank expects South Korea to adopt a combination of expansionary policies, including the Bank of Korea's expected interest rate cut to 2.75% in mid-January, and the government's expected additional budget of 30 trillion won (equivalent to about 1.1% of GDP next year). It is expected that the Bank of Korea will cut interest rates by 25BP each in January, April, July and October next year, and the final interest rate is expected to be 2%.
Afternoon comments on Hong Kong stocks: Hang Seng Index rose by 1.72%, Hang Seng Technology Index rose by 2.55%, Hong Kong stocks closed at noon, Hang Seng Index rose by 1.72% and Hang Seng Technology Index rose by 2.55%. Chinese brokerage stocks and consumer stocks were among the top gainers, with China Merchants Securities, Mengniu Dairy and Tongcheng Travel up over 7% and over 5% respectively.Pakistan KSE-100 index rose 1% to 112,128.50.Turkey imposes additional tax on Iranian flat glass imports.
Behind the cheers of the shooting of American medical insurance executives: blood-sucking insurance companies and the new threat of "ghost guns", the suspect who shot and killed a senior executive of an American medical insurance company in the streets of new york City was arrested on the 9th. Police said on the 11th that a number of evidences have confirmed the criminal facts of suspect Luigi Man Ghione. After the shooting, the American public's anger against medical insurance companies broke out on the Internet, and the "ghost gun" 3D printed pistol used by the suspect also showed that the problem of gun proliferation in the United States became increasingly difficult to solve. Agence France-Presse reported that since Thompson was shot, the voice of ridicule and satire has flooded the Internet, and the lack of sympathy has become the mainstream sentiment of the public, which reflects the dissatisfaction and anger of Americans towards the medical system. (CCTV)Shenzhen Component Index opened at 10942.05 points in the afternoon, up 0.86%. The GEM index opened at 2,297.69 points in the afternoon, up 1.60%. The small and medium-sized board opened at 11,810.25 points in the afternoon, an increase of 0.61%; The Shanghai Composite Index opened at 3,455.06 points in the afternoon, up 0.66%. The Shanghai and Shenzhen 300 Index opened at 4023.60 points in the afternoon, up 0.87%.Behind the cheers of the shooting of American medical insurance executives: blood-sucking insurance companies and the new threat of "ghost guns", the suspect who shot and killed a senior executive of an American medical insurance company in the streets of new york City was arrested on the 9th. Police said on the 11th that a number of evidences have confirmed the criminal facts of suspect Luigi Man Ghione. After the shooting, the American public's anger against medical insurance companies broke out on the Internet, and the "ghost gun" 3D printed pistol used by the suspect also showed that the problem of gun proliferation in the United States became increasingly difficult to solve. Agence France-Presse reported that since Thompson was shot, the voice of ridicule and satire has flooded the Internet, and the lack of sympathy has become the mainstream sentiment of the public, which reflects the dissatisfaction and anger of Americans towards the medical system. (CCTV)
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