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The battery company ACC, a joint venture between Mercedes-Benz and Stellantis, reiterated that plans for factories in Germany and Italy will be announced in the first half of next year. On December 10th, local time, ACC, a joint venture between Stellantis, Mercedes-Benz and Total Energy, said that the company reiterated that it would announce its plans for factories in Italy and Germany in the first half of next year. ACC said in June this year that the construction of its factories in Kaiserslautern, Germany and Termoli, Italy, would be put on hold due to the slow sales of electric vehicles and concerns about costs. The estimated total investment of these two super factories is about 5 billion euros.C3.AI US stocks rose more than 6% before the market, and its quarterly performance exceeded expectations, and it reached a strategic cooperation with Microsoft.Argentina's MERVAL index closed up 1.31% to 2.231 million points.

Industrial integration has injected new vitality, and the activity of mergers and acquisitions has increased. The data shows that since the beginning of this year, a total of 132 A-share companies have issued announcements related to mergers and acquisitions, compared with 82 in the same period last year. Among them, since the release of "Six Articles on Mergers and Acquisitions", nearly 50 listed companies have issued relevant announcements on mergers and acquisitions, and the process of mergers and acquisitions of listed companies has accelerated. Experts said that under the impetus of policies, the activity of mergers and acquisitions has been significantly improved, and industrial integration has become the main logic of mergers and acquisitions. Listed companies can seize the favorable opportunity of capital operation to promote mergers and acquisitions, which can quickly broaden their business fields, enrich their product matrix and achieve greater and stronger results.China Life's first PCT application expense compensation insurance project landed in Shanghai. The reporter learned from China Life Group on December 10th that China Life's first PCT international patent application expense compensation insurance project landed in Shanghai recently. It is reported that the first PCT insurance of a medical technology enterprise in Minhang District of Shanghai was exclusively underwritten by China Life Insurance Shanghai Branch. The relevant person in charge of the company said, "This product has alleviated the high cost pressure when we apply for international patent authorization. At the same time, the insurance product can also enjoy the intellectual property premium subsidy in Minhang District, which further enhances the confidence of enterprises in applying for PCT international patents. "WTI crude oil futures closed up 1.74%, while WTI January crude oil futures closed up 1.17 USD, or 1.74% to 68.37 USD/barrel. Brent February crude oil futures closed up 1.02 US dollars, or 1.43% to 72.14 US dollars/barrel. Nymex January natural gas futures closed up 3.45% to $3.1820/million British heat.

Jinlong Automobile: It received a government subsidy of 26,858,500 yuan. Jinlong Automobile announced on the evening of December 10th that the company and its subsidiaries received a total of 26,858,500 yuan from September 3rd to December 6th.Ren Hongbin, president of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, led a delegation to visit Hong Kong. According to the news of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, from December 8 to 10, Ren Hongbin, president of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, led a delegation to visit Hong Kong, attended the joint meeting of the Mainland-Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce in 2024 and delivered a speech at the symposium of foreign business associations and foreign-funded enterprises in Hong Kong, and prepared to hold the second Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Development Business Conference. During his visit, Ren Hongbin met with Lee Ka Chiu John, Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and Qi Bin, Deputy Director of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. He had extensive exchanges with Lin Jianyue, Chairman of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council, and people from the Hong Kong business community. He had an in-depth exchange of views on deepening economic and trade cooperation between the Mainland and Hong Kong. He went to Jardine Matheson Group, HSBC Group, Swire Group and Cathay Group for investigation, and listened to work reports at the Hong Kong Representative Office of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade and China Patent Agency (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd.Biden's administration is striving to ensure a ceasefire in Gaza before January 20th. CNN quoted people familiar with the matter as saying that the administration led by US President Biden is "working increasingly closely" with officials of the new administration to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza before Trump is sworn in on January 20th.