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Walgreen, a chain drug store, is in talks to sell it to private equity fund Sycamore Partners. Walgreen's intraday gains rose to 5.99% in the short term, which triggered the suspension.Bank for International Settlements: The biggest threat to global stability is the debt carnival of governments. The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) said that the biggest threat to world economic stability is the government's borrowing habits, and the recent changes in market sentiment should be vigilant. Claudio Borio, a senior official of BIS, said in his quarterly report that priority should be given to repairing public finances before the panic of bond investors spreads. "The global financial outlook is still very worrying," said the retiring head of the BIS monetary and economic department. "The trajectory of government debt poses the most serious threat to macroeconomic and financial stability."The murder suspect of the CEO of the insurance giant resisted "extradition" to new york, and the protracted court offensive and defensive war was started. The suspect Luigi Mangione, who was shot dead by Brian Thompson, an executive of UnitedHealth Group Inc, in Manhattan, new york, USA, objected to extraditing himself to new york to face second-degree murder's charges, thus opening the curtain for a judicial procedure that may be a year without a month. On Tuesday (December 10th), at a court hearing in Pennsylvania, the defendant's lawyer said that he would fight against any request to transfer him to new york. "My client is not giving up the extradition hearing here today," said Thomas M. Dickey, Mangione's attorney.

Boeing said that after several weeks of system preparation to ensure that the team, parts and factories are ready, the production of the 737 has been resumed.Since the beginning of this year, six small and medium-sized banks have "refused to redeem" tier-2 capital bonds. On December 9, Yingkou Bank Co., Ltd. announced that when the 10-year tier-2 capital bonds issued by the bank in 2019 had expired, the bank chose not to redeem the bonds. In fact, a number of commercial banks have announced this year that they will not exercise the right to redeem secondary capital bonds, mainly small and medium-sized banks. The insiders believe that there are two main reasons why banks choose not to redeem secondary capital bonds. First, it is difficult for banks to refinance and issue capital replenishment tools due to factors such as high cost of new bonds and declining profitability. Second, the bank's capital adequacy ratio has been at a low level, and some banks' capital adequacy ratio has been lower than the regulatory requirements before redemption, and the capital level may further decline after exercising the redemption right. (Securities Daily)The U.S. stock Seven Sisters | Google A closed up about 5.6%, and the breakthrough of quantum chip Willow was remarkable. NVIDIA fell by 2.7%. On Tuesday (December 10th), in Magnificent 7, Google's parent company Alphabet(GOOGL) closed up 5.59%-leading the S&P 500 telecom sector, and the biggest one-day increase since April. Approaching the record closing price of $190.71 on July 10, investors pay attention to the company's latest quantum computing chip Willow, which has achieved amazing results in the benchmark test; Tesla rose 2.87%, Meta Platforms rose over 0.9%, Apple rose over 0.4% and continued to hit a record closing high, Amazon fell over 0.4%, Microsoft fell 0.6% and NVIDIA fell 2.69%. In addition, Berkshire Hathaway Class B shares closed down 0.3%, Lilly Pharmaceuticals fell 0.5%, AMD fell 2.39%, and TSMC ADR fell 3.63%.

EIA: The net import of crude oil in the United States will drop by 20% in 2025. The us energy information administration (EIA) said on Tuesday that it is expected that the net import of crude oil in the United States will drop by 20% to 1.9 million barrels per day next year, which will be the lowest level since 1971, suggesting that the output of the United States will increase and the demand of refineries will decrease. EIA said in its Short-term Energy Outlook in December that the US oil production is expected to increase from 13.24 million barrels per day in 2024 to 13.52 million barrels per day in 2025. EIA also said that the crude oil processing capacity of refineries will be 16 million barrels per day in 2025, a decrease of 200,000 barrels per day compared with 2024. EIA now predicts that the average spot price of Brent crude oil in 2025 will be $73.58 per barrel, which is lower than the previous forecast of $76.06 per barrel. The average spot price of crude oil in the United States is $69.12 per barrel, which is lower than the last forecast of $71.60 per barrel.Brent crude oil futures closed at $72.19 a barrel, up 0.07%.An attack on a minibus in Haiti caused 8 deaths and 10 injuries. On December 10, local time, Haitian police released a report saying that a minibus was attacked by gangs in Deluge, Artibonite province on the 9 th, causing 8 deaths and 10 injuries, including 8 serious injuries. (CCTV)