Musk: Nothing is more beneficial to American health than "ultra-low-cost" diet pills. Musk advocates the use of diet pills to reduce American medical expenses. On December 11th, local time, Musk posted on social platform X that nothing can improve the health, longevity and quality of life of Americans better than very cheap GLP-1 drugs. He pointed out that most medical expenses occur at the end of life, and obesity is often an important factor leading to diseases. Therefore, popularizing GLP-1 drugs can save medical expenses on a long-term scale.The warm winter of second-hand houses has arrived: in November, house prices in Chengdu, Shenzhen rebounded first, and second-hand houses once again played a leading indicator of market warming. On December 11th, the Middle Finger Research Institute released a map of housing prices of second-hand houses in the top ten cities in November 2024, showing that in November, the average price of second-hand houses in Baicheng fell by 0.57% from the previous month, which was 0.03 percentage points lower than that of the previous month. The second-hand housing market in first-tier cities is more active. The average price of second-hand housing in the top ten cities dropped by 0.17% month-on-month, and the decline was narrowed by 0.16 percentage points from last month. Among them, the prices of second-hand houses in Shenzhen and Chengdu rose by 0.21% and 0.12% respectively, breaking the overall decline of 100 cities for seven consecutive months. Experts in the industry said that under the blessing of the policy of "buying houses and reducing taxes", it is expected that the transaction of second-hand houses in core cities will continue to be high, and prices are expected to continue to adjust. (beijing business today)Agency: It is expected that the folding smartphone market will continue to decline in 2025. Counterpoint Research, a market research organization, issued a document saying that the year-on-year shipments of folding smartphone displays declined for the first time in the third quarter of 2024, and it is expected that the shipments in 2025 will also continue to decline.
OpenAI responded to ChatGPT downtime. On December 12th, OpenAI confirmed that ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence chat robot, was currently experiencing a worldwide downtime, which made users unable to use it. This problem also affects the integration function between iOS 18.2 and Siri. According to OpenAI, the company has identified the cause of the outage and is actively repairing it. Although their goal is to restore the function of ChatGPT as soon as possible, they have not provided a specific recovery schedule.Australia's employment continued to grow, and the unemployment rate unexpectedly dropped. Australia's unemployment rate unexpectedly dropped in November, and employment continued to grow, highlighting the resilience of the labor market to rising interest rates and prompting traders to reduce their bets on interest rate cuts in February. According to data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics on Thursday, the unemployment rate dropped from 4.1% in October to 3.9%, far below the 4.2% expected by economists. The number of employed people has increased by 35,600, and it is entirely driven by full-time jobs. It is expected to increase by 25,000. The Australian dollar rose to 0.6411 against the US dollar, and the yield of policy-sensitive 3-year Australian government bonds rose by 5 basis points. The Australian stock market retreated all gains.The central bank today conducted a seven-day reverse repurchase operation of 66.1 billion yuan, and the winning bid rate was 1.50%, which was the same as before. As 37.3 billion yuan of 7-day reverse repurchase expired today, the net investment on that day was 28.8 billion yuan.
Agency: It is expected that the shipment of folding smartphones will continue to decline in 2025. According to the latest report of Counterpoint Research, the year-on-year shipment of folding smartphone displays declined for the first time in the third quarter of 2024, and it is expected that the shipment in 2025 will also continue to decline. The agency expects Apple to enter the market in the second half of 2026. In addition, more multi-fold products are expected to be launched in 2026, and the first slidable notebook computer is expected to be available in 2025.At the beginning of the Tesla concept, Weitang Industry was active with a daily limit of 20CM, and Weitang Industry had a daily limit of 20CM. Bethel, Mingke Jingji, Meili Technology and Tianqimo quickly followed suit.The CSI convertible bond index opened 0.03% higher. Weitang convertible bonds rose by more than 5%, and Chujiang convertible bonds rose by more than 3%; Ligao convertible bonds, Z-city convertible bonds and Tianyuan convertible bonds fell more than 1%.