Michael Del Pozzo, president of Hershey's American candy business, will leave his post and return to his old club Pepsi. On December 10th, local time, American chocolate manufacturer Hershey (NYSE: HSY) announced that Michael Del Pozzo, president of American candy business, will leave his post on December 12th, 2024. Michele Buck, President and CEO of Hershey, will take the leading position in the candy business in the United States, and the company will look for successors from internal and external candidates. Del Pozzo will return to PepsiCo and take up a new leadership position.Foreign capital is buying! Wall Street traders "lay out A shares" have gained huge floating profits. The latest data shows that Wall Street traders are "laying out A shares" through large call options. The data shows that from November 29th to last Friday, Wall Street traders bought nearly 180,000 Direxion Daily FTSE China Bull 3x Shares ETF (Yinn) call options. Wall Street traders also bought about 210,000 Direxion Daily CSI 300 China A Share Bull 2x Shares (code CHAU) call options last week. Among them, CHAU did twice as much as the CSI 300 Index, while YINN did three times as much as the FTSE China A50 Index. U.S. stocks closed overnight, and YINN and CHAU rose by more than 23% and 13% respectively. According to calculation, the book income of the buyers of the above-mentioned YINN and CHAU call options contracts has reached 138 million dollars (about 1 billion yuan). Today, the A-share market opened, and the three major indexes all opened sharply higher. The GEM index rose above 4% at first, and then the market suddenly changed, and the three major indexes quickly fell back. At the close, the Shanghai Composite Index rose by 0.59%, the Shenzhen Composite Index rose by 0.75%, and the GEM index rose by 0.69%. Looking forward to the A-share market outlook, institutional analysis believes that macroeconomic policies are expected to maintain a positive tone of overweight and countercyclical adjustment, and institutional funds, active funds and retail funds are expected to resonate, driving the A-share "year-end and year-end market" to continue to be interpreted.Reuters survey: 93 out of 103 economists believe that the Federal Reserve will cut the federal funds rate by 25 basis points to 4.25%-4.50% on December 18th.
Swedish Finance Minister: What I am most worried about now is not American tariffs, but low productivity.Market news: Russia resumes passenger railway traffic with North Korea.Consumer prices in Ukraine rose by 11.2% year-on-year in November, with an estimated increase of 10.4%; In November, consumer prices rose by 1.9% month-on-month, and it is estimated to rise by 1.5%.
TSMC ADR fell before the market, but analysts said that the demand for artificial intelligence remained strong. TSMC ADR fell by 0.6% in pre-market trading in the United States, after the world's largest chip foundry announced its sales data for November. Analysts said that the data is a positive signal of TSMC's quarterly revenue. Bernstein analysts said that the company's revenue in October and November totaled 590 billion Taiwan dollars, accounting for 69.6% of TSMC's guidance midpoint in the fourth quarter of 2024, close to the high end of the range of 65-72% in December of the past eight years. If December follows the average seasonal factors of the past eight years, the income in the fourth quarter of 2024 will be 1.7% higher than the midpoint of the guidance interval and 1.2% higher than the market expectation.France's nuclear power generation hit its highest level since January 19th.The pace of interest rate cuts may be inconsistent. The pound rose to the highest level against the euro since 2022, and the pound rose to the highest level against the euro in more than two and a half years. British government bonds fell because the market expected that the Bank of England would cut interest rates less than Europe. On Tuesday, the pound rose 0.3% against the euro to 82.50p, the first time since April 2022. British government bonds fell across the board, and the 10-year yield rose to 4.33%, the highest since November 28. Traders expect the Bank of England to stay put at its last policy meeting this year next week and maintain a cautious stance on subsequent interest rate cuts. The country's growth remains strong, while inflation in some areas remains high. At the same time, it is widely believed that the European Central Bank will cut interest rates by 25 basis points on Thursday to support the economy. "The 0.8200 mark is imminent," said Brad Bechtel, global foreign exchange director of Jefferies. "It is clear that the Bank of England will still lag far behind the European Central Bank in the pace and extent of interest rate cuts.
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