The three major US stock indexes rose across the board, technology stocks rose across the board, and most of the popular stocks rose.
Large company
Beijing time on the evening of April 6, according to foreign media reports, Goldman Sachs released a report today that, after Ruixing Coffee shareholder Haode Investment Company (borrower) defaulted, under a $ 518 million margin loan arrangement The syndicated group of lenders has instructed Credit Suisse Singapore Branch as the guarantor trustee to exercise the rights of the lender against the collateral, that is, to enforce the procedure involving 76,350,094 shares of Ruixing Coffee American Depositary Shares (ADS). (IT House)
News, April 5th, Ruixing Coffee issued an apology statement via Sina Weibo, saying that the executives and employees involved have been suspended. Ruixing Coffee’s board of directors has commissioned a special committee composed of independent directors and appointed third-party independent agencies to conduct a comprehensive and thorough investigation. The company will disclose the investigation results to the public as soon as possible and take all necessary remedial measures, without evading all the problems caused by this matter.
In the morning of April 5, Lu Zhengyao, the chairman of Ruixing Coffee (LK), said in the WeChat circle of friends about the suspected financial fraud of LK (LK), “I personally blame myself. Regardless of the independent committee I will bear the responsibilities due to the final findings of the survey. “He also said that the company has run too fast in the past two years, causing a lot of problems, and now has fallen hard, he as the chairman is blamed.
Recently, Bilibili (Nasdaq: BILI) submitted to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the FORM 20-F annual report that Tencent Holdings holds 13.3% of its second largest shareholder and owns 4% of the voting power; Xu Yi, the president of the B station, holds 8.8% of the shares and is the third largest shareholder with 26.3% of the voting rights; Alibaba Taobao China Holdings Limited is the fourth largest shareholder of the B station, holding 7.2% of the shares and 2.2 % Voting rights; Loyal Valley Capital (Loyal Valley Capital) holds 5.9% of the shares and has 1.8% of the voting rights. (IT House)
Xiaomi ’s 10th Anniversary Lei Jun Weibo: “Re-enter Xiaomi ’s Venture Road with Partners”
36 Krypton News, on the afternoon of April 6, Lei Jun posted on Weibo that: Today is Xiaomi ’s tenth birthday. To commemorate this special day, I and my partners re-entered Xiaomi ’s entrepreneurial path: from Zhongguancun Baofu Temple The Silver Valley Building of the bridge started, to the Rolling Stone World in Wangjing, to the colorful city of Qinghe, and finally to the Xiaomi Science and Technology Park we built. Recalling the ten-year history, I was filled with emotion.
I learned that the three major US stock indexes rose across the board, with the Dow up 7.73% and the Nasdaq up 7.33%The S & P 500 index rose 7.03%, the highest since March 13. Among them, popular Chinese stocks generally rose, Alibaba rose 4.99%, JD.com rose 4.19%, Pinduoduo rose 4.31%, NetEase rose 3.88%, and Baidu rose 5.91%.
Beijing time on the 6th, Boeing announced that due to the new coronavirus epidemic, it will extend the shutdown time of its Seattle area aircraft factory indefinitely until further notice. The company announced last month that it would suspend production at the plant for two weeks after an employee of the plant died of infection with the new coronavirus. (Sina Finance)
Debenhams, a British department store chain, is on the verge of bankruptcy
According to the British Sky Skys report, affected by the new coronary pneumonia epidemic, the famous British department store chain Debenhams (Debenhams) has accepted administrative custody and is facing bankruptcy. The department store group has a history of 242 years and 142 chain stores in the UK. The bankruptcy of the company will affect about 22,000 employees. (CCTV News)
Cook: Apple has donated more than 20 million masks worldwide
On April 6th, Apple CEO Cook said in Twitter that in order to support the fight against the epidemic, they have donated more than 20 million masks to healthcare workers worldwide. (Tencent Technology)
Hubei agricultural goods Taobao hot sale, “Ju Hubei” sells 200,000 orders in 1 hour
In two days, Wuhan will officially “open the city”, which means that the production and living order of Hubei is accelerating the “restart”, and Hubei goods are also quietly popular on Taobao. According to the data from Alibaba, the “Juhu Hubei” activity was launched on April 6, and 200,000 single Hubei agricultural products were sold within an hour. (First Financial)
Hurun Report: The top 100 global entrepreneurs have lost 2.6 trillion yuan in the past two months
The Hurun Research Institute released the “Special Report on the Change of Global Entrepreneur Wealth Two Months After the Epidemic” on April 6 to study the two entrepreneurs on the Hurun Global Rich List as of March 31, 2020 Changes in wealth during the month: The top 100 global entrepreneurs lost 2.6 trillion yuan of wealth in the past two months, or 13%, evaporating the wealth created in the past two and a half years; the top ten lost 1.4 trillion yuan. (Sina Technology)
Investment and financing
Airbnb receives $ 1 billion in investment
In the early hours of April 7th, Beijing time, although the New Crown Virus Crisis hit the tourism and hotel industry particularly hard, the homestay platform Airbnb will still receive an investment of $ 1 billion. Airbnb issued a statement saying that private equity firms Silver Lake and Sixth Street Partners will invest $ 1 billion in the company in the form of bonds and equity, which will be Airbnb ’s ongoing long-term Provide support for investment work. (Sina Technology)
From March 12 to April 2, 2020, the second-level private equity investment platform “Tianjin Liren Investment” under Gao Lian Capital has filed 32 private equity fund products. At the end of February 2020, a second-level private placement under Gao Lian Capital-Liren Investment opened external channel fundraising news. This was the first time Liren Investment opened external channel fundraising. Reporters have learned from various sources that they have aggregated information from channels such as China CITIC Bank, Ping An Bank and Noah Zhengxing, and conservatively estimated that the total amount of funds raised this time exceeded 10 billion yuan. (China Securities Journal)
AI Voice Unicorn “Spitz” completed a Series 410 million round of financing
learned that the intelligent voice technology company Spitz has recently completed the E round of financing, the current amount of 410 million yuan, led by the national transfer Guoxin Zhixin investment, BAIC investment, CITIC Jinshi and other investment. Founded in 2007, Spitz has completed 5 rounds of financing. The past investors include Yuanhe Holdings, Alibaba, MediaTek, Shenzhen Venture Capital, Foxconn, Lenovo Star, etc.
learned that Kuaitu Logistics has recently completed a Series B financing led by Zhongwei Capital and Country Garden Venture Capital VC Fund, with an amount of about 200 million yuan. Old shareholders such as Alto Investment and Innovation Workshop continue to follow the investment . The new round of financing will mainly be used for the three aspects of national market expansion, product upgrades and technology research and development. Fast Rabbit Logistics was established in August 2017. It is an intelligent logistics platform that provides one-stop door-to-door transportation services for SMEs. Previously, the company had obtained multiple rounds of investment from Sequoia Capital, Innovation Workshop, Zhen Fund and other institutions.
New product
Huawei will launch MateBook X Pro 2020 National Bank
On April 5, Huawei ’s official Weibo video released the Huawei MateBook X Pro 2020 warm-up video. The notebook will be officially unveiled at the 2020 Huawei Spring New Product Online Conference on April 8. (Quick Technology)
LG will release 5G mobile phones with new brands next month
According to foreign media news, as a new measure to reinvigorate the business, LG announced that the company will launch a new 5G network smartphone in May and adopt a new brand name instead of using the past G series naming . (Tencent Technology)
TCL releases its first smartphone series—TCL 10 series
Learned that TCL Communications officially released the first smartphone series of the TCL brand overseas——TCL 10 series, which includes TCL 10 5G, the first 5G smartphone of TCL brand, TCL 10 Pro, the first AMOLED curved display phone, and TCL 10L, the flagship light unit. The pricing of the entire series is within $ 500.
Other important news
According to the latest news from the Kyodo News, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said at the LDP high-level meeting on the 6th that more than 6 trillion yen (about 390 billion yuan) will be issued to households and small and medium-sized enterprises with substantially reduced income Yuan) cash. (People’s Daily Overseas Network)
British Prime Minister Johnson ’s high fever admission test
According to CCTV News, on the 5th local time, according to the BBC report, the British Prime Minister Johnson still has persistent symptoms of new coronary pneumonia, including high fever. At the doctor’s suggestion, enter the hospital for testing and emphasize that this is a preventive measure, not an emergency measure. On March 27, Boris Johnson’s new coronary pneumonia test was positive. (Sina Technology)
In order to further promote the offline economic recovery, on the 3rd, Hangzhou issued a second round of consumer coupons, the amount of which was increased from 50 yuan to 100 yuan, and the amount of use reduction was also greatly increased. The reporter learned from the Hangzhou Municipal Bureau of Commerce that the first round of consumer vouchers in Hangzhou has already paid 94.1 million yuan in government subsidies, driving consumption of 1.246 billion yuan in Hangzhou. It is expected that the effect of the second round of consumer vouchers will be more obvious. (CCTV Finance)
On April 5, according to foreign media reports, Microsoft co-founder and billionaire Bill Gates (Bill Gates) confirmed that his funds will fund the establishment of a new factory, dedicated to the seven kinds of Different new coronavirus candidate vaccines are being developed. This effort may cost him billions of dollars in funding, and eventually even no viable vaccine was found. But Gates believes that this is something that needs to be done as soon as possible, and no time can be wasted. (Tencent Technology)
Bitcoin rises more than $ 7000
Bitstamp quote on the trading platform shows that Bitcoin has risen above 7000 USD / piece, which is the first time since April 4 and the daily increase is over 3%. (First Financial)
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