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This year, the amount of M&A transactions involving listed companies in Hong Kong has reached 38 billion US dollars, which has triggered a rare bidding war. This year is expected to be the busiest year for M&A transactions involving listed companies in Hong Kong in the past decade, with industries ranging from skin care products to logistics real estate, and the bidding war has also warmed up. It is reported that China Mobile's bid for Hongkong Broadband may face competition from American private equity firm I Squared Capital. Bi Hua, chairman of Fenmei Packaging, is negotiating with Qihao Capital to jointly counter the privatization offer of Shandong Xinjufeng. The data shows that the scale of M&A transactions for listed companies in Hong Kong has reached $38 billion this year, the highest level since 2017, including the merger of Guotai Junan Securities and Haitong Securities, a smaller competitor, to become the largest brokerage firm in China.With a case value of 6.891 billion yuan, the Anti-smuggling Bureau of Huangpu Customs launched a special campaign to crack down on smuggling and fraudulent tax refund, which was announced by the Customs. Recently, the Anti-smuggling Bureau of Huangpu Customs, together with the Third Branch of the Securities Crime Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security, the Economic Investigation Corps of the Hunan Provincial Public Security Department and the Yueyang Public Security Bureau of Hunan Province, launched a special campaign to crack down on smuggling and fraudulent tax refund, and simultaneously carried out arrests and investigations in Dongguan, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Yueyang and Jinjiang. After preliminary investigation, criminal gangs were suspected of smuggling imported LCD screens and integrated circuits with a case value of 756 million yuan, falsely issuing special invoices for value-added tax and defrauding export tax rebate of 6.135 billion yuan, with a total case value of 6.891 billion yuan.Insurance stocks of Hong Kong stocks rose, with New China Life Insurance (01336.HK) rising by over 4%, China Life Insurance (02628.HK) rising by 3.6%, China Ping An (02318.HK) rising by over 3%, followed by People's Insurance Group of China (01339.HK) and China Pacific Insurance (02601.HK).

Cross-border payment concept stocks surged before noon, while Gao Weida and Zhaori Technology rose by 20cm, while huijin technology and Xiongdi Technology rose by more than 10%.The dividend index has performed better for a long time, and the allocation value of Standard & Poor's dividend ETF(562060) has attracted much attention. By midday on December 12, the standard & poor's dividend ETF(562060) had increased by 0.44%, with a turnover of 10.1606 million yuan. The constituent stocks are mixed. In terms of rising, Yongxing Materials led the gains, and Voice Holdings followed suit. In terms of decline, Luan Huan was able to lead the decline, while Orchid Science and Technology fell. In the news, as of December 11, 940 listed companies have thrown out 994 single and medium-term cash dividend plans this year, with a year-on-year increase of 269.41%; The total amount of dividends involved was 667.519 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 166.24%. According to the analysis of Xingzheng Securities, the long-term performance of dividend strategy in the US stock market is significantly better than that of the S&P 500 index, and its stability is higher. From 2003 to 2022, the annualized rate of return of the S&P 500 high-quality and high-dividend index reached 12.0%, which was higher than the S&P 500 index's 10.5%. Donghai securities said that under the downward trend of risk-free interest rate, dividend stability and growth potential have become important considerations, and we are optimistic about the investment value of dividend plate.Speaker of South Korea's National Assembly: Yin Xiyue will never tolerate declaring martial law in order to warn the National Assembly. On the 12th, South Korea's National Assembly Speaker Yu Yuanzhi said that Yin Xiyue "declared emergency martial law in order to warn the National Assembly, which is absolutely intolerable in the constitutional order, because it means that the democratic constitutional order can be destroyed for political purposes, and the basic rights of the people can also be used as a means for political purposes". Yu Yuanzhi also said that today's presidential talk cannot lead to other misjudgments or social chaos, and Congress will deal with all possible situations.

The opposition party in South Korea said that Yin Xiyue was insane. On the morning of December 12, local time, South Korean President Yin Xiyue made another televised speech, refused to step down early, and denied that martial law was a crime of civil strife. After Yin Xiyue's speech, public opinion in South Korea immediately criticized him. South Korea's largest opposition party, the Common Democratic Party, said that Yin Xiyue was mentally ill and called on the South Korean National Assembly to pass the impeachment case. After Yin Xiyue's speech, Han Dongxun, the representative of the ruling party in South Korea, also said that Yin Xiyue's speech had no introspection and was rationalizing his behavior. Some commentators pointed out that Yin Xiyue may have expected that he could not prevent the National Assembly from passing the impeachment case and was trying to influence the final ruling of the Constitutional Court. I am afraid that the chaos in Korean politics will continue.Openai: the downtime failures of API, CHATGPT and SORA have been basically fixed. We are monitoring the situation to ensure that the downtime is fully resolved.The extremist organization claimed responsibility for the attack on the headquarters of the Afghan Refugee and Repatriation Affairs Department. On the 12th local time, the Islamic State khorasan province, a branch of the extremist organization, claimed responsibility for the attack on the headquarters of the Afghan Refugee and Repatriation Affairs Department. On the 11th, a suicide attack occurred at the headquarters of the Afghan Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation, which killed four people and seriously injured four others. Khalil Rahman Haqqani, Acting Minister of the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation, died in the attack.