A retrospective on the OpenAI series of conferences: From tools to AGI, the evolution of OpenAI in 12 days.
In the first four days, the official version of o1, Sora, and Canvas were launched with great impact; after a few days of 'silence' in between, the last day directly revealed a game-changer—GPT-o3, which broke the skepticism surrounding the bottleneck in AI development.
Investing in Hong Kong, Alibaba has arrived! Alibaba's Entrepreneur Fund has established a 0.15 billion dollar AI Fund.
① Alibaba's Entrepreneur Fund announced the establishment of an AI Fund, amounting to 0.15 billion USD, primarily covering Industries where AI can be deeply applied. ② Almost at the same time, ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming also arrived, and his investment Institutions officially acquired Hong Kong's No. 9 license to start investing in the AI field. ③ This year, Hong Kong ranks eighth among the top ten regions globally in terms of total financing for AI enterprises.
Annual review | North funds aggressively bought Hong Kong stocks! Net buying exceeded 770 billion Hong Kong dollars for the year, with Alibaba attracting over 82 billion.
As of December 19, the cumulative transaction of southbound funds through the Hong Kong Stock Connect this year has exceeded 10 trillion, surpassing the entire amount of last year, with an overall increase of nearly 50%.
Express News | Alibaba: On December 19, approximately 39.9918 million US dollars was spent to repurchase 3.7808 million shares.
The concerns regarding Ctrip still exist for 300 billion.
The competition is fierce.
Bipartisan senators request a grace period for TikTok: they wrote a letter urging Biden to postpone the ban by 90 days.
Senators Ed Markey and Rand Paul urged Biden to extend the deadline for ByteDance to sell TikTok by 90 days; these two lawmakers stated that the ban legislation might be overturned by the Supreme Court and could affect freedom of speech in the USA, so the deadline should be appropriately postponed; the USA Supreme Court is reviewing the appeal filed by TikTok and will hold a debate in January.
Asia Markets Mixed as Investors Assess China Rate Decision; Eyes on PCE Inflation Data
The Dow barely ended its longest continuous decline in 50 years, Micron fell by 16%, the US dollar reached a two-year high again, and US bonds, oil, and Bitcoin all dropped.
U.S. stock market's other Indexes turned down towards the end, Tesla rose by nearly 4% before closing down, NVIDIA reached a high of 4%, and Micron Technology had its steepest decline in five years. The yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury bonds briefly increased by nearly 10 basis points approaching 4.60%, close to a seven-month high, while short-term bond yields fell, with the 2/10-year yield spread at its widest in two and a half years. The Bank of England held rates steady, but more officials supported a rate cut, leading to a decline in the British Pound. The Governor of the Bank of Japan suppressed interest rate hike expectations, causing the yen to fall towards 158, and the offshore renminbi briefly dropped below 7.32 yuan to its lowest in 15 months. Bitcoin fell by 5%, approaching $0.096 million. Spot Gold rose by 1.6% before narrowing back below $2,600, while the futures silver fell by 5%, and U.S. crude oil fell below $70.
U.S. stock market close | The three major Indexes had mixed results, with the Dow ending a 10-day losing streak; Quantum Computing concept stocks corrected, with QUBT and Quantum down about 40%; FedEx surged more than 13% after hours.
① The Dow Jones slightly increased, while the S&P 500 Index and Nasdaq slightly decreased; ② Micron Technology dropped over 16%; ③ Nike rose more than 10% in Post-Market Trading.
Express News | Alibaba: On December 18, approximately $22.0932 million was spent to repurchase 2.0684 million shares.
Asia Markets in Red Tracking Wall Street Sell-off Amid Hawkish Fed Stance; BOJ Keeps Rate on Hold
Express News | The Hong Kong stock of Baidu Group fell over 6%, and Apple is negotiating AI cooperation with Tencent and ByteDance.
U.S. stock market close | The Federal Reserve takes a hawkish stance, three major Indexes drop together, with the Nasdaq down over 3%; Tesla falls over 8%, leading the decline among Technology giants, while Quantum Computing concept stock, Quantum, soars
The Dow Jones experienced ten consecutive declines, marking the longest streak of losses since 1974. The S&P fell nearly 3%, and the Nasdaq dropped over 3%. Tesla led the tech giants down with a decline of over 8%. The chip index fell nearly 4%, with Broadcom dropping nearly 7%, and NVIDIA initially rose nearly 5% during the day before turning negative. Micron Technology, which provided disappointing guidance for this fiscal quarter, fell over 10% in after-hours trading.
U.S. Videogame Sales Down 7% in November Hurt by Declines in Game Content Spending
Shares of Companies Within the Broader Consumer Discretionary Sector Are Trading Lower Amid Overall Market Weakness Following the Fed's Rate Decision to Cut Rates by 25 Basis Points.
Decoding Alibaba Gr Hldgs's Options Activity: What's the Big Picture?
Disney's Marvel Rivals Game Hits 20 Million Players, Proves Superhero Power Still Reigns
Express News | Alibaba: On December 17, approximately 9.9911 million dollars was spent to repurchase 0.9208 million shares.
Yearly Review | The top ten repurchase kings of Hong Kong stocks in 2024 are announced! All Market repurchase total exceeds 250 billion Hong Kong dollars, with Tencent accounting for a "half of the market".
According to Wind data, as of December 17, 277 Hong Kong stocks have conducted buybacks this year, with a total buyback amount of 256.117 billion Hong Kong dollars, and 64 individual stocks have a cumulative buyback amount exceeding 0.1 billion Hong Kong dollars this year.
Asia Markets Mostly Lower Mirroring Wall Street's Losses; Investors Assess Japan's Trade Data