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Mckinsey agreed to pay $650 million to settle the criminal investigation of opioids by the U.S. Department of Justice. Mckinsey submitted a five-year deferred prosecution agreement to the federal court in Abingdon, Virginia, and agreed to pay $650 million to settle the criminal investigation of the U.S. Department of Justice on its work in guiding the opioid manufacturer Purdue Pharmaceutical to increase sales. According to court documents, Martin Elling, a former senior partner of McKinsey, agreed to plead guilty to obstruction of justice because he destroyed McKinsey's consulting records for Purdue Pharmaceutical. He will plead guilty on January 10th next year. Mckinsey has previously reached various settlement agreements totaling nearly $1 billion. The company had previously faced lawsuits in several States in the United States, and was accused of providing sales analysis and marketing advice to pharmaceutical companies such as Purdue Pharmaceutical and Johnson & Johnson, which contributed to the popularity of opioids.The Stoxx Europe 600 index fell to an intraday low of 0.5%. 

Sources: Leaders of Germany, France, Poland, NATO and other countries will meet in Brussels on Wednesday to discuss Ukraine. Zelensky will also attend the Ukrainian meeting.Beijing issued a new policy to reduce the logistics cost of the whole society. The "Implementation Plan for Effectively Reducing the Logistics Cost of the Whole Society in Beijing" (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan") released on the 13th proposed that Beijing would improve its cargo transportation capacity and vigorously develop air freight. Strengthen the construction of Beijing airport-type national logistics hub, actively expand international routes, and constantly improve the aviation network layout of "all cargo aircraft+passenger aircraft belly cabin". The plan puts forward 16 measures around five key areas, such as improving cargo transportation capacity, improving logistics infrastructure network, improving urban distribution service, strengthening enterprise service and management, and promoting innovation-driven development. (Zhongxin. com)Minister of Labor of Canada: I asked the Canadian Industrial Relations Committee whether it was determined that the Canadian labor dispute case was deadlocked.

Wen Bin, chief economist of Minsheng Bank: The "scissors gap" between M2 and M1 continues to narrow, reflecting the positive trend of the economy. "The total financial volume has grown steadily, and the liquidity is reasonable and abundant, which has maintained strong support for the real economy." Wen Bin, chief economist of China Minsheng Bank, believes that the year-on-year growth rate of narrow money (M1) balance rebounded in November compared with last month, and the "scissors gap" between M2 and M1 continued to narrow, reflecting the positive economic trend. Wen Bin introduced that the medium and long-term loans of households in China are mainly personal housing mortgage loans. With the real estate financial policy taking effect, the phenomenon of early repayment of personal loans has been significantly reduced, and personal loans will continue to stabilize and rebound. The recent improvement of commercial housing transaction data and financial data confirms each other, and the confidence of the real estate market and residents is further enhanced.Maiwell Technology rose more than 11% to a record high, and announced a breakthrough in customized high-bandwidth memory. Maiwell Technology rose more than 11% in intraday trading to US$ 121.86, with its share price reaching a record high and its market value exceeding US$ 100 billion. Maywell Technology announced on Wednesday that the company has made a breakthrough in customized high-bandwidth memory (HBM) for artificial intelligence processors. It is reported that the new artificial intelligence accelerator architecture (XPU) will increase computing power by 25%, memory by 33%, and improve energy efficiency. The company is cooperating with Micron Technology, Samsung and SK Hynix to customize HBM processors for accelerators.According to HKEx documents, Ganyuan Weike Holdings Co., Ltd. submitted an application for listing to HKEx.