Burger King China: In November this year, the number of passengers turned positive year-on-year, and the sales in October increased by about 5% month-on-month. On December 11th, the relevant person in charge of Burger King China told reporters, "Since the government issued a package of incremental policies at the end of September, many chain catering enterprises including Burger King have felt the stabilization and recovery of the catering consumption market since October this year. Especially in the past November, Burger King has achieved a positive year-on-year passenger flow. " The aforementioned person in charge pointed out, "From the sales data, in the past six years, our sales in October were almost the same as that in September. However, in October this year, the sales of Burger King China rebounded from September, increasing by about 5%. " (The Paper)Microsoft is reported to have hired several DeepMind employees for the new AI health department. Mustafa Suleyman, the head of Microsoft consumer artificial intelligence and co-founder of DeepMind, is forming a new team focusing on consumer health. Dominic King, the former head of DeepMind health department, was hired as the vice president of Microsoft AI's new health team in London. He also poached DeepMind's clinical research scientist and Christopher Kelly, a neonatal intensive care doctor at Evelina Children's Hospital in London, and two other colleagues he worked with during DeepMind.Luckin Coffee will open seven stores in Hong Kong, and Luckin Coffee will further implement its plan to enter Hong Kong and open seven branches. Among them, Shop A16C-A, underground of New City, Sai Yeung Choi South Street, Mong Kok, covers an area of about 398 square feet. At present, the shop has been boarded up and is under renovation. An agent estimates that the monthly lease is HK$ 120,000. The other six branches are located in Miramar Plaza in Tsim Sha Tsui, MCP New Capital Center in Tseung Kwan O, Shatin Center, Festival Walk in Kowloon Tong, Des Voeux Road Central in Sheung Wan and Ho Man Tin.
The Central Finger Research Institute: In November, the price of second-hand houses in Beijing narrowed by 0.17 percentage points from the previous month. On December 11th, the Central Finger Research Institute released a map of the price of second-hand houses in the top ten cities in November 2024, showing that in November 2024, 18,763 sets of second-hand houses were sold in Beijing, up 8% from the previous month and 49.6% from the same period last year. The cumulative turnover from January to November increased by 8.2% compared with the same period last year. In terms of price, in November, the price of second-hand housing in Beijing fell by 0.12% month-on-month, narrowing by 0.17 percentage points from the previous month.With nearly 200,000 closures a year, the tea shop has become a "black hole" for entrepreneurship. According to Hongcan. com, in the first half of the year, the news that Xie Yao, the founder of online celebrity milk tea brand "Yuanzhen", set up a stall to sell milk tea sparked heated discussions. The data shows that from November last year to November this year, as many as 197,000 tea shops have closed down. In this wave of closure, there are not only the first-line and quasi-first-line brands and thousands of franchisees who used to shout for thousands of stores, but also many entrepreneurs who flocked to the milk tea track driven by the entrepreneurial tide.At midday, the main contract of alumina futures opened lower, and now it is down nearly 3% to 5101 yuan/ton. In the news, according to Shanghai Nonferrous Metals, on December 10th, 30,000 tons of alumina was sold overseas, with a transaction price of $680/mt FOB Western Australia, and the shipping date was in late January/early February.
Allan Monks, an economist in JPMorgan Chase: The Bank of England's signal about gradually cutting interest rates has been very strong recently, suggesting that the possibility of cutting interest rates next week is very low. However, if the signs of the accelerated weakening of the labor market continue, it will force the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee to deviate from this information.South Korea's Minister of Planning and Finance, Choe Sang-mu, said that he had tried his best to stabilize the turbulent financial market.The chairman of Japan's trade union called on the government to speed up its efforts to raise wages, and the chairman of Japan's Metal Workers' Union urged the government to speed up the pace of wage increase, while expressing concern about the premature tightening measures taken by the Bank of Japan. Akihiro Kaneko, president of the Board of Directors of the Japan Metal Workers' Union, said that we need to see the situation improve this year when talking about the government's measures to help small and medium-sized enterprises pass on costs to consumers through the supply chain. If we put off this effort for five or ten years, there will never be any improvement. Kaneko's remarks come as Japan prepares for annual wage negotiations, which will culminate this spring. In next year's negotiations, the union announced a record target of a monthly salary increase of 12,000 yen (US$ 79) or more. Kaneko said that we need to send a clear message that our salary increase target (this year) is higher.
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Strategy guide 12-13
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Strategy guide 12-13
Strategy guide 12-13