Grifols SA, a Spanish pharmaceutical company, raised 1.3 billion euros ($1.4 billion) through a private placement of bonds, hoping to appease investors.Dollar deposits and wealth management are popular again, and experts such as CITIC Mingming have paid attention to exchange risk. Since December, many bank wealth management subsidiaries have intensively put on shelves dollar wealth management products. According to the statistics of Puyi standard data, as of December 9, there were 1,312 surviving products in US dollar financing, and the surviving scale of US dollar financing reached 281.927 billion yuan, which has doubled from the surviving scale of 140.351 billion yuan at the end of December last year. Although banks have previously lowered the interest rate of dollar deposit products, from the current point of view, the interest rate of some banks' dollar deposits remains above 4%, attracting many customers to buy. Judging from the rate of return, the performance benchmark of some US dollar fixed-income wealth management products currently launched is close to 5%, but the performance benchmark of RMB wealth management products with the same risk level is mostly around 2%.Apple or cooperated with Broadcom to develop AI server chips using TSMC's advanced process. According to The Information, Apple's cooperation with Broadcom this time is not complete design and production outsourcing in the traditional sense, but some key "chiplet" are provided by Broadcom. Core is a design method that modularizes the functions of the processor. Apple can combine multiple cores into a complete chip. This method not only simplifies the manufacturing process, but also effectively protects Apple's overall design secrets, even if the partners can't fully understand the chip architecture. It is reported that this processor code-named "Baltra" will be produced by TSMC in N3P process. N3P is an advanced manufacturing technology released by TSMC in April 2024, and it is expected to be applied to the processor of iPhone 17 Pro for the first time. This process technology has higher performance and energy efficiency advantages, and will provide strong support for AI servers.
Market information: Britain plans to lay off more than 10,000 civil servants.US Treasury Secretary Yellen: The G7 loan aims to strengthen Ukraine's self-defense, continuing education and emergency services.The previous crude oil futures 2401 contract closed up 1.28% at 536.70 yuan/barrel. Shanghai Gold closed up 0.64% and Shanghai Bank closed up 0.04%.
Israel lifted the restrictions on the northern part of the Golan Heights. The IDF released a message on the evening of 11th local time, saying that after the assessment by the IDF Homeland Defense Command, Israeli Defense Minister Katz approved the lifting of the restrictions on the northern part of the Golan Heights, and the allowed scale of activities changed from partial activities to full-scale activities. With the cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon starting last month, this is the first time that the restrictions in the region have been relaxed.Xinhua News Agency commentator: Writing a new chapter of high-quality development in border areas, the article said that development is the foundation and key to solving all problems in China. To promote high-quality development in border areas, we must firmly grasp the master key of development. He who does not seek the overall situation does not seek a domain. Only by firmly establishing the idea of a national chess game, bringing the development of border areas into the overall situation of Chinese modernization strategy, regional coordinated development strategy and regional major strategy can we promote the high-quality development of border areas in the new development pattern and the national unified market.On Wednesday (December 11th), the overnight reverse repurchase agreements (RRP) of the Federal Reserve was 180.120 billion US dollars, compared with 174.842 billion US dollars in the last trading daily.