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Mckinsey agreed to pay $650 million to settle the criminal investigation of opioids by the U.S. Department of Justice. Mckinsey submitted a five-year deferred prosecution agreement to the federal court in Abingdon, Virginia, and agreed to pay $650 million to settle the criminal investigation of the U.S. Department of Justice on its work in guiding the opioid manufacturer Purdue Pharmaceutical to increase sales. According to court documents, Martin Elling, a former senior partner of McKinsey, agreed to plead guilty to obstruction of justice because he destroyed McKinsey's consulting records for Purdue Pharmaceutical. He will plead guilty on January 10th next year. Mckinsey has previously reached various settlement agreements totaling nearly $1 billion. The company had previously faced lawsuits in several States in the United States, and was accused of providing sales analysis and marketing advice to pharmaceutical companies such as Purdue Pharmaceutical and Johnson & Johnson, which contributed to the popularity of opioids.Research institutions predict that Thailand's economy will grow by 2.4% in 2025. Thailand Kaitai Research Center released a report on the 13th, saying that it predicted that Thailand's gross domestic product (GDP) will increase by 2.4% in 2025, slightly lower than the growth forecast of 2.5% in 2024. The Kaitai Research Center believes that the slowdown in Thailand's economic growth is mainly due to the weakening of tourism, and it is expected that Thailand's exports to the US market will slow down. (Zhongxin. com)The average auction yield of 25-day cash management bills in Canada is 3.276%.

Jiaying Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.: The chairman of the board proposed to buy back the company's shares of no more than 132.3 million yuan. On the evening of December 13, Jiaying Pharmaceutical announced that Li Neng, the chairman of the company, proposed that the company buy back some RMB common shares (A shares) issued by the company through the trading system of Shenzhen Stock Exchange with its own funds, and the repurchased shares are intended to be used for implementing employee stock ownership plan or equity incentive. According to the proposal, combined with the company's financial operation and actual situation, the number of shares to be repurchased this time is not less than 7 million shares (inclusive), accounting for about 1.3793% of the company's total share capital; It does not exceed 13.5 million shares (inclusive), accounting for about 2.6600% of the company's total share capital. According to the calculation that the maximum number of repurchased shares is 13.5 million shares (inclusive) and the maximum price of repurchased shares is 9.80 yuan/share (inclusive), the total amount of repurchased shares does not exceed 132.3 million yuan (inclusive).The foreign trade export liner of western land and sea new channel lighters made its maiden voyage. On December 13th, with the container liner Haifeng Guangxi carrying 32 tons of lighters from Shaodong enterprises in Hunan slowly leaving Qinzhou Automation Container Terminal in beibu gulf port, the foreign trade export train of (Hunan/Guizhou-Beibu Gulf Port-Jakarta) western land and sea new channel lighters made its maiden voyage successfully. (Zhongxin. com)Zhao Xiongwen, a famous expert in communication field and a professor at North China Electric Power University, died of illness at the age of 61. (澎湃)

Institution: The European Central Bank is paying attention to the weakness of the euro. The European Central Bank said yesterday that inflation is slowing down and hinted that it will cut interest rates again. However, Joost Van Leenders, an analyst at Van Lanschot kemen, said in a report that the European Central Bank will pay close attention to the recent weakness of the euro. As the import price rises, a weak currency may push up inflation. The senior investment strategist said that since the current deposit interest rate in the euro zone is 3% and the neutral interest rate is around 2%, the European Central Bank will cut interest rates at least four times. However, European Central Bank President Lagarde stressed that the inflation risk is two-sided.In November, personal housing loans stabilized and rebounded. On December 13, the central bank released financial statistics for November 2024. The financial data was generally stable and maintained strong support for the real economy. It is noteworthy that the growth rate of household loans has been rising recently, mainly because personal loans have stabilized and rebounded. From the perspective of residents' departments, the short-term and medium-and long-term loans in the first 11 months increased by 1.29 trillion yuan and 453.8 billion yuan respectively, of which the medium-and long-term loans of residents increased by 66.9 billion yuan in November, increasing for two consecutive months. With the intensive introduction and effective implementation of a package of incremental policies, social expectations and market confidence are gradually picking up. Market experts generally predict that the effective financing demand in the market will be further improved, financial resources will flow more to major strategies, key areas and weak links, and financial support for the high-quality development of the real economy will be more powerful and effective. (21 Finance)According to statistics, on December 13th, as of press time, eight A-share listed companies, including Weisheng Information, Weixing Intelligent, Tongda Shares, Yangfan New Materials, Xingguang Agricultural Machinery, Huawang Technology, Xinxiangwei and Infineon, disclosed their reduction.