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Amazon will try out the fast delivery service in India and promise to deliver it within 15 minutes. amit agarwal, senior vice president of emerging markets of Amazon, said in an interview on December 10th that Amazon will try out the delivery service in Bangalore, India for 15 minutes or less. "The catalogue of products involved in the service will range from groceries to household items, depending on the community it serves". Companies such as Blinkit, a subsidiary of Indian takeaway giant Zomato, Swiggy supported by Softbank and BigBasket, a subsidiary of Tata Group, dominate the Indian grocery express delivery market, and some of them have launched the fastest 10-minute express delivery service.Henan: This year, the limit of "debt conversion" has been fully issued. On the 10th, the Finance Department of Henan Province reported that the province successfully issued 30,444.53 million yuan of government bonds in Shanghai, all of which are special bonds for refinancing, mainly used to replace existing implicit debts. So far, the local government debt limit issued by the Ministry of Finance of China in 2024 to replace the hidden debt in stock has been fully issued. The Henan Provincial Department of Finance reported that the members of the underwriting syndicate subscribed enthusiastically, and the subscription multiple of the whole audience reached 30.86 times, which fully reflected the investors' high recognition and confidence in Henan's economic development, financial strength and government credit.Bank for International Settlements: Swap spreads are reflecting investors' concerns about excessive bond supply. The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) pointed out that huge government loans are having an impact on the global interest rate market, saying that investors have demanded higher premiums for buying sovereign bonds. In its quarterly report released on Tuesday, the agency pointed out that the swap spreads of various currencies and maturities have narrowed rapidly in recent months, which are "signs of possible oversupply". As investors are worried about huge debt and deficit expansion, the yields of government bonds in the euro zone and Japan have recently exceeded comparable swap rates. This leads to the so-called swap spread becoming negative. Because national debt is usually regarded as a safer investment than interest rate swap, it is unusual for the swap spread to enter the negative range. According to the Bank for International Settlements, the negative swap spread seems to reflect the pressure faced by investors and intermediaries because they need to absorb more government bonds in the near future. In the United States, the swap spreads for some maturities have been negative for many years.

Google (GOOG.O) rose 4.3%, reaching its highest level since July.VESTIS, a supplier of workplace supplies, once rose 9.4%, the highest since May 1. In the news, VESTIS is interested in the acquisition of many companies.The British Chancellor of the Exchequer called on the EU to grant greater access to the City of London. The British Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves visited Brussels, urged the EU to grant greater access to the City of London, and told the finance ministers of the group that this would help promote their stagnant economic growth. Reeves said: "Britain has a deep global capital market, which can fund the growth needed by the economies in continental Europe."

Three quarters of the earth's land is gradually dry due to climate change. From December 2 to 13, the 16th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (COP16) was held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. On December 9, the United Nations released a report during the meeting, saying that about three-quarters of the world's land has gradually become dry due to climate change. In addition, the Copernican Climate Change Service of the European Union pointed out in a monthly bulletin of global air surface temperature in November released on December 6 that 2024 will be the hottest year on record in the world, and the current ultra-high temperature is expected to last until the first few months of 2025.The Khartoum State Government of Sudan said on the 10th that the Sudan Rapid Support Force shelled the city of Omdurman in the west of the capital Khartoum that day, killing 65 civilians.The chief financial officer of Goldman Sachs said that it is expected that strategic M&A activities will accelerate in 2025.