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TSMC's November sales amounted to NT$ 276.06 billion, a year-on-year increase of 34%. In the first 11 months of this year, the accumulated sales amounted to NT$ 2.62 trillion, a year-on-year increase of 31.8%.The modern factory project is expected to start in the fourth quarter of 2026.Market News: The Director of Russian Intelligence Agency said that Russia is close to achieving all its goals in Ukraine and has the strategic initiative on all fronts.

Pakistan's KSE-100 index rose 1% to 111,119.90.Kim Sang-wook, a member of South Korea's ruling party, changed his position and praised him for impeaching Yin Xiyue. According to Korean media reports, Kim Sang-wook, a member of South Korea's ruling party's National Force, changed his position on the 10th and said that he would vote in favor of the impeachment case of President Yin Xiyue. According to Yonhap News Agency, Jin Xiangxu said at a press conference in the National Assembly that the emergency martial law seriously violated conservative values, was an intolerable and indisputable absolute mistake, and was also a state crime that should be severely punished. He will vote in favor of the president who plans anti-constitutional and anti-democratic martial law in the next impeachment vote. (World Wide Web)HSBC: The Bank of Japan may raise interest rates next week. Economists at HSBC Global Research pointed out that the Bank of Japan may raise interest rates at its meeting in December. Frederic Neumann and Jun Takazawa, the bank's economists, said that the recent hawkish remarks by officials reflected both foreign exchange fluctuations and the improvement of economic data. Most members of the Bank of Japan's Policy Committee may have enough confidence that wages will continue to increase generally next year and will choose to raise interest rates before December and January, when Trump takes office. Japan's economy and prices are still on the normal track, and wages, consumption and service inflation have all made progress. HSBC predicts that the Bank of Japan will raise interest rates by 25 basis points again in the first quarter of 2026, bringing the policy interest rate to 1%.

Chongqing State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission: Resolutely lay a solid foundation for comprehensively deepening the reform of state-owned enterprises and accelerate strategic restructuring and professional integration. Chongqing State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission officially announced today that on December 9, Chongqing State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission held a December 2024 economic operation scheduling meeting for municipal key state-owned enterprises. The meeting stressed that it is necessary to resolutely fight a tough battle to comprehensively deepen the reform of state-owned enterprises in light of the landmark achievements of the "five new breakthroughs." It is necessary to promote the reshaping of the main business of the group to achieve a "new breakthrough", focus on the reshaping of the main business of the group, further sort out the business of the sub-enterprises, effectively support the core functions and main business of the group, and enhance the core competitiveness; Promote "new breakthroughs" in stopping losses and controlling losses, further promote structural adjustment, reduce costs and increase efficiency, and revitalize assets, and strive to control the losses of municipal state-owned enterprises at the target ratio by the end of the year; Promote slimming and fitness to achieve a "new breakthrough", accelerate strategic restructuring and professional integration, and accelerate the reduction of the number of legal entities and reduce the management level of enterprises in accordance with the requirements of reduction. It is necessary to focus on the most realistic and urgent problems that restrict high-quality development, and promote state-owned state-owned enterprises to further comprehensively deepen reforms.Investors asked the Bank of India to allow the sale of national bonds as zero coupon bond. According to people familiar with the matter, investors urged the Bank of India to allow the state government debt to be converted into zero-coupon bonds. At a recent meeting with the Bank of India, insurance companies dominated the demand for facilities to register interest on national bonds and separate transactions of securities principal (STRIPS). Currently, the Reserve Bank of India only provides this function for federal debt. STRIPS is a popular product in the United States and other developed markets. It was first released in India in 2010, but it has little effect. However, in recent years, the demand for long-term savings products has increased and sales have surged. One of the people familiar with the matter said that allowing state bills to be converted into so-called divested bonds would give investors an additional spread of 30 to 40 basis points higher than that of similar federal securities. State bonds are illiquid and are usually sold at a higher yield than central government bonds.The official responded to the fire in Alibaba's cloud computing data center. On December 9, some netizens released a video saying that there was a fire in Alibaba's cloud database in Yuancheng District, Heyuan, Guangdong Province, and a raging fire was lit at the scene, and smoke was rolling. The video publisher said that the fire broke out on the afternoon of the 9th, and hundreds of people escaped. The reporter called the customer service staff in Alibaba Cloud, and the customer service said that the relevant failure notice and fire situation had not been received at present. Subsequently, the reporter from the urban scene called the Propaganda Department of Yuancheng District Committee of Heyuan City, Guangdong Province. The staff of the Propaganda Department confirmed this to the reporter. The staff told the reporter that the fire broke out in the jurisdiction of Yuannan Town. Yesterday (9 th) at around 3 pm, the fire was extinguished. There were no casualties at the scene. (urban scene)