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French President Macron: Without Europeans, Europe will not be safe.CITIC Securities: The resonance between supply and demand of medical beauty accelerates the space expansion, and the difference in operating ability promotes the evolution of the industry structure. CITIC Securities Research Report stated that the medical beauty industry has both medical and consumption attributes, and the medical attribute has strong product-driven characteristics, while the consumption attribute has high operating ability requirements. The medical beauty botulinum toxin track is also affected by the dual attributes of medicine and consumption: 1) The increase in penetration rate, the acceleration of compliance substitution and the extension of indications have brought about high demand for medical beauty botulinum toxin, and with the recent supply expansion, the industry scale has experienced high growth; 2) The iteration of product innovation is slow, brand barriers are created through marketing, doctors are empowered through direct sales, and control is strengthened to enhance product competitiveness. Recently, a variety of medical botulinum toxins in China have been approved, and the promotion of low-priced products is expected to push up the penetration rate, and enterprises with strong operational capabilities will enter the market or promote the evolution of the pattern.World Gold Council: The price of gold is expected to hit its best annual performance in more than 10 years. It is expected that there will be a positive but moderate growth next year. According to the report of the World Gold Council, the price of gold is expected to hit its best annual performance in more than 10 years, with an increase of 28% as of November. Behind this, the purchases of the central bank and investors offset the significant slowdown in consumer demand. Looking ahead, all eyes are focused on the impact of Trump's second term on the global economy. The current forecast of GDP, yield and inflation shows that gold will have a positive but much more moderate growth in 2025. The upward trend may benefit from a sharp drop in interest rates, an increase in volatility, or the continuous higher-than-average demand for gold by the central bank. On the contrary, higher long-term interest rates or weak demand for gold consumption may bring headwinds.

Market News: A fire broke out at Kaliningrad Shipyard in Russia.Guotai Junan: The long-term incremental "option" brought by humanoid robots is expected to help the valuation of the rare earth sector rise. When looking forward to the strategy of the rare earth sector in 2025, Guotai Junan said that the market had expected that with the slowdown in the growth of core demand power such as new energy vehicles and wind power in the future, the demand for rare earth markets is under downward pressure. However, we expect that the rising consumption of magnetic materials for new energy vehicles and the warming demand for wind power are still expected to support the basic demand growth, and the demand for equipment renewal that began to land in 2024 is expected to become a new driving force for rare earth demand. On the supply side, an orderly pattern of domestic supply has been established, with many overseas planning increments but slow actual volume, and continuous supply-side constraints. In addition, the long-term incremental "options" brought by humanoid robots are also expected to help the valuation of the plate rise.South Korea's Seoul Composite Index rose to 1%.

Huazhi Liquor Store: It is planned to distribute a cash dividend of 8.09 yuan for every 10 shares. Huazhi Liquor Store announced that the company's profit distribution plan for the first three quarters of 2024 has been approved by the shareholders' meeting. The company will distribute a cash dividend of RMB 8.09 to all shareholders for every 10 shares based on the existing total share capital of 417 million shares and the share capital of 408 million shares after 9,098,100 shares have been repurchased in the repurchase special securities account. The total amount of cash dividends actually distributed was 330 million. The distribution of rights and interests in date of record is December 19th, 2024, and the ex-dividend date is December 20th, 2024. This dividend does not involve bonus shares and capitalization of capital reserve.Lu 'an Huaneng: The raw coal output in November was 5.09 million tons, down 5.39% year-on-year. Lu 'an Huaneng announced that the raw coal output in November 2024 was 5.09 million tons, down 5.39% year-on-year; The sales volume of commercial coal was 5.36 million tons, up 18.32% year-on-year. In 2024, the cumulative output of raw coal was 52.25 million tons, down 4.88% year-on-year; The cumulative sales volume of commercial coal was 47.09 million tons, down 4.48% year-on-year.Market News: A fire broke out at Kaliningrad Shipyard in Russia.