Market News: Little Red Book's net profit will exceed $1 billion in 2024.International coffee futures rose as high as 70% during the year. As of December 12, Beijing time, the price of US ICE coffee futures had risen by nearly 70% during the year, and once hit a high of 345.55 cents/pound on December 10, a record high. At the same time, the price of Arabica coffee futures on the New York Futures Exchange also reached $3.434 per pound, exceeding the record high set in 1977. As for the reasons for the soaring international coffee futures prices, a futures industry source revealed that the price increase of coffee beans was mainly due to weather changes and supply chain disruptions. Brazil, the world's largest coffee producer (accounting for one third of the world's output), has experienced severe drought and frost in recent years, resulting in a sharp decline in coffee production. (CBN)Yibin Paper: Terminate the issue of A shares to specific targets in 2022 and withdraw the application documents. Yibin Paper announced that the company held the 31st meeting of the 11th Board of Directors and the 22nd meeting of the 11th Board of Supervisors on December 12, 2024, and deliberated and passed the Proposal on Terminating the Issue of A shares to specific targets in 2022 and withdrawing the application documents. Considering the changes in market environment and policies, and considering the actual situation, the company decided to terminate the issuance of A shares to specific targets.
Laimei Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.: The controlling shareholder intends to transfer 23.43% of the shares by agreement. Laimei Pharmaceutical announced that Zhongheng Group, the controlling shareholder, intends to transfer 247 million shares of the company's unrestricted tradable A shares by public solicitation of the transferee, accounting for 23.43% of the company's total share capital, and the transfer price is not less than 4.42 yuan/share. If the share transfer is completed, the controlling shareholder and actual controller of the company may change.Australia's unemployment rate in November was 3.93%, which is estimated to be 4.2%.HKEx: It is estimated that the T+1 settlement system will be ready by the end of 2025.
CITIC Securities: There is no need to be overly pessimistic about the export of home appliances catalyzed by state subsidies. CITIC Securities Research Report said that domestically, the sales data of white electricity and black electricity continued to improve under the support of state subsidies. Externally, the overall export exposure of home appliance enterprises to the United States is relatively limited, so there is no need to be overly pessimistic. Looking forward to the future, the domestic demand stimulus policy is expected to be further overweight, and it is suggested to focus on white power enterprises that benefit from state subsidies; Optional sectors where domestic demand is expected to reverse (small household appliances, projection).The US dollar just hit the 7.2700 yuan mark against the offshore RMB, and the latest price was 7.2700 yuan, down 0.10% in the day. The US dollar against the onshore RMB was recently reported at 7.2660 yuan, up 0.06% in the day.Yiwangyichuang: Shareholder Zhang Fan plans to reduce his shareholding by no more than 1%. Yiwangyichuang announced that shareholder Zhang Fan, who holds more than 5% of the company's shares, plans to reduce his shareholding by centralized bidding and/or block trading, and the number of shares to be reduced is no more than 2,369,400, accounting for 1.00% of the company's total share capital. The reduction period is from January 6, 2025 to April 4, 2025. The price range of reduction will be determined according to the market price and trading method at the time of reduction. The reason for Zhang Fan's reduction is based on his own capital demand, and the shares come from the shares issued before the initial public offering, the shares transferred due to equity distribution and the shares transferred by agreement.