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President of Japan Life Insurance: I don't think we are behind our competitors in overseas acquisitions, but we are concerned about different countries.IDC: It is estimated that the edge cloud market in China will grow at a compound annual rate of over 25% from 2023 to 2028. Recently, the latest report "China Edge Cloud Market Tracking Research, 2024H1" released by International Data Corporation (IDC) shows that in the first half of the year, the edge cloud market in China totaled 5.48 billion yuan, with a year-on-year growth rate of 21.0%. Among them, the market scale of edge public cloud services, edge exclusive cloud services and edge cloud solutions reached 3 billion yuan, 970 million yuan and 1.5 billion yuan respectively. According to IDC, it is estimated that the average annual compound growth rate of China's edge cloud market will be 25.5% from 2023 to 2028, taking into account the changing trend of customer expenditure in major industries, the commercialization progress of hot demand and the changes of bandwidth supply policy throughout the year.Japan Life Insurance announced that it would spend $8.2 billion to acquire the life insurance company Resolution Life. On December 11th, Japan Life Insurance Mutual announced that it would spend about $8.2 billion to acquire the remaining 77% shares of the life insurance company Resolution Life. The transaction is expected to be completed in the second half of 2025. On the same day, Japan Life announced that it would acquire the remaining 20% shares of MLC Life Insurance from National Bank of Australia (NAB) and integrate MLC with Resolution Life.

In November, Sichuan CPI rose by 0.1% year-on-year, and the price increase of pork and fresh vegetables dropped from the previous month. On December 10, the data released by the Sichuan Survey Corps of the National Bureau of Statistics showed that the consumer price index (CPI) in Sichuan rose by 0.1% year-on-year, and the growth rate dropped by 0.1 percentage point from the previous month. It decreased by 0.7% from the previous month. From January to November, the consumer price of Sichuan residents decreased by 0.1% compared with the same period of last year. In terms of food, the price of food, tobacco and alcohol rose by 1.8% year-on-year in November, and the growth rate dropped by 1.1 percentage points from the previous month. Among them, the prices of pork and fresh vegetables increased by 15.2% and 14.0% year-on-year, respectively, and the growth rate dropped from last month; The price of fresh fruit changed from a year-on-year increase of 3.4% last month to an increase of 2.0%; The prices of eggs and aquatic products decreased by 1.6% and 0.6% respectively. From the ring comparison, the price of food, tobacco and alcohol decreased by 1.9% from 0.3% last month, mainly because the average temperature in November was higher than that in previous years, which was beneficial to the production, storage and transportation of agricultural products, and most fresh food prices were affected by the super-seasonal decline.Before the Bank of Japan's policy meeting, it released chaotic signals. Japanese traders were confused about when to raise interest rates. After the Bank of Japan officials' remarks and media reports sent different signals, traders have been confused about when the central bank might raise interest rates in the past week. This kind of confusion led to sharp fluctuations in the market's interest rate hike bets. The overnight index swap pricing showed that the probability of raising interest rates in December was 22%, which was significantly lower than 60% at the beginning of last week. This week, the yen fell from 150 last Friday to a low of 152.18 to the dollar, and the exchange rate was 151.73 at 10:40 Tokyo time. Kazuo Ueda, governor of the Bank of Japan, said in an interview last month that the interest rate hike was approaching. A few days later, a report by the news agency emphasized the concern of the central bank about raising interest rates prematurely. Tomaki Nakamura, a member of the Dove Policy Committee, said last week that he was not opposed to raising interest rates, but this month's policy decision must consider data factors.President of Japan Life Insurance: I don't think we are behind our competitors in overseas acquisitions, but we are concerned about different countries.

Survey by Monetary Authority of Singapore: Economists have lowered Singapore's non-oil domestic export growth forecast from 3.0% to 1.0% in 2024.The minimum acceptable price of the two-year national debt issued by the Ministry of Finance in Hong Kong is 100.62 yuan. The minimum acceptable price of the five-year national debt issued by the Ministry of Finance in Hong Kong is 102.41 yuan.The Israeli army attacked a house in the northern Gaza, killing 18 people. The reporter learned that the Israeli army bombed a house in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza on the early morning of the 11th local time, killing 18 people and leaving many others missing. (CCTV News)