The State Tobacco Monopoly Administration plans to further manage e-cigarette transactions, and the yen exchange rate has hit a new 34-year low......

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1. The State Tobacco Monopoly Administration intends to further manage the e-cigarette transaction

On April 25, the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration issued a notice on soliciting opinions on the "Detailed Rules for the Administration of E-cigarette Transactions (Draft for Comments)". The draft is divided into 6 chapters with a total of 30 articles, compared with the detailed rules, the main contents of this revision include: first, it clarifies the transaction subjects of various types of e-cigarette transactions, such as adding Article 28 to define e-cigarette import business enterprises and clarify the scope of their licenses; Fourth, some new management requirements have been added, such as the relevant requirements for the filing of marketing activities carried out by production enterprises in Article 19, and the technical processing content that has nothing to do with transaction management has been deleted, such as the deletion of Article 10 "the platform automatically records, counts, and analyzes transaction prices". (China News Network)

2. Gold prices fell for three consecutive days

On Wednesday (April 24), local time, in terms of precious metals, the international gold price fell on the same day due to the rise in the dollar index and the rebound in U.S. bond yields. At the close, June gold futures on the New York Mercantile Exchange closed at $2,338.4 an ounce, down 0.16%. (CCTV Finance)

3. The yen exchange rate hit a new 34-year low

On April 25, the exchange rate of the yen against the US dollar in the foreign exchange market in Tokyo, Japan, once fell to about 155.40 yen per US dollar, hitting a new low in 34 years. With core inflation in the U.S. stubbornly high, uncertainty about the Fed's next monetary policy direction has increased. The market expects the Bank of Japan's low interest rate policy to continue, and the foreign exchange market has intensified its operation of selling yen and buying dollars. On the morning of the same day, Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki told the media that he would not comment for the time being. (CCTV News)

4. Nearly 9 million chickens in the United States have been infected with avian influenza

According to a report by CBS on April 24, the recent outbreak of avian flu in many states in the United States has led to a sharp increase in egg prices across the United States. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, as of April 24, the average price of 12 Grade A eggs in the U.S. was $2.99 (about 21.6 yuan), up nearly 16% from January. Nearly 9 million chickens have been found infected with avian influenza in Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico and Texas in recent weeks, which has affected egg supply and led to higher prices, the USDA said. (Overseas Network)

5. The Mayday concert in Beijing will be supervised by law enforcement personnel

On April 24, the well-known orchestra Mayday's 25th anniversary tour concert in Beijing was officially announced, rushing to the hot search list. Last year, the band's concerts in Shanghai and other venues were questioned about lip-syncing, and the agency's denials failed to quell the controversy. On the morning of April 25, a staff member of the law enforcement corps of the Shanghai Municipal Administration of Culture and Tourism said that Mayday's lip-tto identification was "still being processed." Regarding the upcoming Beijing venue, the relevant law enforcement department of Beijing replied that it would send staff to the scene to supervise. (Southern Metropolis Daily)

Enterprise

1. Xiabu Xiabu is selling more and more expensive, but it is losing more and more

"Xiabu Xiabu is no longer cheap", "The double meal has risen from about 120 yuan to about 150 yuan, and the bottom of the pot has changed from random selection to now adding money to choose, and now this price has lost its last advantage"...... On social platforms, consumers have hundreds of "complaining posts" about Xiabu Xiabu. By sorting out the financial report, it was found that even if the price continued to rise, Xiabu Xiabu's parent company, Xiabu Group, did not make any money. According to Xiabu Group's financial report, its net loss in 2023 will reach 199 million yuan, 293 million yuan in 2021, and 353 million yuan in 2022, and its cumulative loss in the past three years will exceed 800 million yuan.

2. Nongfu Spring's "green bottle" pure water has been distributed

Recently, the promotional image of the new pure water product "Little Green Bottle" produced by Nongfu Spring has been circulating on the Internet. On April 25, a staff member of Nongfu Spring said: "Now we will continue to distribute goods offline first, and they will be listed in the future (online and offline)." Another Nongfu Spring staff member said that the green bottle of purified water is 550ml, and the retail price is 2 yuan per bottle, "You can pre-order now, and it is expected to arrive in two days." (The Paper)

3. Guo Allen asked Jia Yueting for salary online

On April 25, Jia Yueting posted a video recorded in the back seat of FF91 on social media, saying: "It is precisely because I came to the United States to build cars more than ten years ago that I have the ability to become a bridge for Chinese cars to enter the American market." Chinese men's basketball player Guo Allen appeared in the comment area to collect debts: "Hello Mr. Jia, the car looks good, I'm very happy for you." After you successfully sell it, can you give me the 1.5 million (yuan) that I signed with LETV in 2016 and have not settled, thank you!" It is reported that Guo Allen has cooperated with Jia Yueting's LETV Media. On July 21, 2016, LeTV Sports Company officially announced the signing of Guo Allen, which is also the company's first official announcement of the signing of athletes. However, Jia Yueting was repeatedly frustrated due to his car-making plan and was heavily in debt, which seriously affected the development of LeTV's other businesses. (Interface News)

4. Li Xiang, CEO of Li Auto, appeared at the ZEEKR booth

At 1:20 p.m. on April 25, the reporter saw at the Beijing Auto Show that Li Xiang, CEO of Li Auto, came to the booth of ZEEKR to experience ZEEKR MIX. It is understood that the ZEEKR MIX launched by ZEEKR Automobile this time is another pure electric MPV after Xiaopeng X9 and Ideal MEGA, and these brands will start new competition in the pure electric MPV market. (China Business Daily reporter Lei Kexin, Wang Yifei)

5. Make a friend video account premiere "bleak"

is different from his debut on other platforms other than "base camp" Douyin, at 17 o'clock on April 23, Luo Yonghao rarely did not show up in the premiere of the video account in the live broadcast room of Make a Friend. Different from the lively scene that premiered on other platforms, Make a Friend's premiere on the video account was so cold that it could even be called "bleak". The reporter noticed that half an hour after the live broadcast started, there were only 11,000 viewers. In the premiere of Jingdong at the end of May last year, Luo Yonghao started broadcasting for only 5 minutes, and the audience soared to 2.34 million. According to the data of the third-party platform Xinshi, the estimated sales of the first broadcast of the Make a Friend video account were 1.2467 million yuan, and the sales of Make a Friend on the day of the premiere on Jingdong exceeded 150 million yuan. On April 23rd, the reporter exclusively learned from Make a Friend that the premiere was launched at the invitation of the video number, and a team of 7-8 people was formed to make a friend to try the live broadcast of the video number platform. At the earnings call at the end of March this year, the executives of Make a Friend also revealed that this year, Make a Friend will explore and try on new platforms such as Channels and Xiaohongshu. (National Business Daily)