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Klarna, a Swedish payment company, said that it stopped recruiting hundreds of employees because of AI during the year. Sebastian Siemiatkowski, CEO of Klarna, a Swedish payment company planning to go public in the US, said that the company stopped recruiting a year ago, mainly because it invested in artificial intelligence (AI), which can replace the work of hundreds of employees in the company. According to Siemiatkowski, the number of employees decreased by 22% to 3,500 within one year, mainly due to brain drain. He pointed out that at present, about 200 employees in the company use artificial intelligence for their core work, and will improve the efficiency of artificial intelligence by accelerating the salary growth of employees.The MSCI Asia Pacific Index fell 1% to 185.63.The Hang Seng Index of Hong Kong stocks opened lower by 0.78%, the index of state-owned enterprises fell by 0.88%, and the branch index opened lower by 1.01%.

The growth enterprise market index fell to 1%, the Shanghai Composite Index fell by 0.65% and the Shenzhen Composite Index fell by 0.93%. Securities, real estate and food consumption were among the top losers, with nearly 4,300 stocks falling in Shanghai, Shenzhen and Beijing.Shunkong developed 50 million yuan to set up an industrial investment company. According to the enterprise survey APP, recently, Guangdong Shunkong Qingxun Industrial Investment Co., Ltd. was established with Liang Weifeng as the legal representative and a registered capital of 50 million yuan. Its business scope includes: sales of eco-environmental materials; Sales of building materials; Sales of new membrane materials; Sales of synthetic materials, etc. Enterprise investigation shows that the company is wholly owned by Shunkong Development.The negative spread of 10-year treasury bonds between China and the United States has expanded to more than 250BP, the largest since June 2002.

Southern Power Grid: In November, the installed capacity of industrial and commercial distributed photovoltaic projects was newly put into operation, with more than 500 MW. Southern Power Grid (003035) said at the institutional investor strategy meeting on December 12 that in 2024, the company will continue to give full play to the advantages of distributed photovoltaic energy-saving track, focusing on key industries with good industry prospects, strong sustainable operation ability and large electricity consumption, and increase development efforts. According to preliminary statistics, from January to November 2024, the installed capacity of industrial and commercial distributed photovoltaic projects was newly put into operation with more than 500 MW.In the exchange market, the national debt rose the most, with "National Debt 2404" rising more than 4%, "National Debt 23", "Special Country 24 03" and "Special Country 24 01" rising nearly 1%.The scale of A500-related funds exceeded 240 billion yuan, and the scale of CSI A500ETF leader (563,800) jumped to the first place in Shanghai. On December 12, the total scale of funds tracking CSI A500 index reached 242.1 billion yuan, which was the fastest index in the history of A-share. In addition, the CSI A500 Index also contributed about one third of the increase in scale index funds since September. Among them, CSI A500ETF leader (563800) has attracted the most gold since its listing on November 18th, with a net inflow of 14.2 billion yuan, and its latest scale has exceeded 16.5 billion yuan, ranking first in Shanghai.