No. 1 in US stock turnover on Monday$Tesla (TSLA.US)$It closed down 0.56% and traded US$29.605 billion. According to data published by X platform blogger Troy Teslike, which tracks Tesla's development, Tesla's Shanghai Gigafactory's Model Y production has surpassed Model 3. Last year, the factory produced 1.77 times more Model Y than Model 3, and this year's Model Y production is expected to be 2.07 times that of Model 3.

According to the newly released data on automobile terminals in November 2023, among domestic passenger cars, SUVs are sold 942,000 units, and Tesla Model Y leads the SUV sales list by a huge margin. According to another report, Tesla's share of the Australian electric vehicle market fell to less than half in November.

3rd place$Apple (AAPL.US)$The closing price fell by 0.85%, and the transaction was US$10.888 billion. Apple announced in a statement that it will soon stop selling its flagship Apple Watch models in the US. Starting later this week, the latest versions of the smartwatches Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 will no longer be sold. Apple and MedTech$Masimo (MASI.US)$There has been a long-standing patent dispute over Apple Watch's blood oxygen sensor technology. Apple took this action after the US International Trade Commission (ITC) ruled.

Fourth place$Amazon (AMZN.US)$It closed down 2.73% and traded $9.537 billion. The British game company Games Workshop Group Plc announced on Monday that it has reached an agreement with Amazon Content Services LLC (Amazon Content Services LLC), a subsidiary of Amazon, to develop movies and TV series and provide related product sales rights.

The agreement was first announced in December last year. According to the agreement, Amazon will develop the Games Workshop “Warhammer 40K” series into movies and TV series. In December 2022, Games Workshop announced a principle agreement. Amazon will develop Games Workshop's intellectual property rights into movies and TV works and hand over related product sales rights.

6th place$Meta Platforms (META.US)$It closed 2.9% higher and traded $6.534 billion. The US stock social media sector generally rose on Monday.

7th place$Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.US)$It closed down 0.18% and traded $6.267 billion. The Bank of America raised AMD's rating from “neutral” to “buy,” with a target price of 165 US dollars.

Eighth place$Broadcom (AVGO.US)$Closing 1.53% higher, the stock price reached another record high, trading at US$6.24 billion. Citi pointed out in a recent report that Broadcom can directly benefit from AI demand and become second only to market capitalization$NVIDIA (NVDA.US)$The second-largest semiconductor company, revenue from AI infrastructure is expected to double in 2024 from US$4 billion in FY2023 to US$8 billion in FY2024, directly driving Broadcom's sharp rise this week.

10th$Alphabet-A (GOOGL.US)$It closed up 2.41% and traded $4.374 billion. 13th$Alphabet-C (GOOG.US)$It closed 2.5% higher and traded $3,519 billion. On December 7, Google released a new model, the Gemini 1.0 series. People in the industry said, “With the release of Google's Gemini model, AI has entered a multi-modal era.”

11th$Costco (COST.US)$It closed 3.4% higher and traded $3.846 billion. Market Opener's revenue for the first fiscal quarter was 57.8 billion US dollars, up 6.2% year on year; earnings per share were 3.58 US dollars, net profit was 1,589 billion US dollars, and the same period last year was 1,364 billion US dollars, all slightly higher than market expectations.

In the first fiscal quarter, same-store sales in the US market increased by 3.8%, same-store sales in the US market increased by 2.0%, same-store sales in the Canadian market increased by 6.4%, and same-store sales in the international market increased by 11.2%. After excluding the effects of fluctuations in gasoline prices and foreign exchange, same-store sales in the US increased 2.6%, and the overall increase was 3.9%.

12th place$United States Steel (X.US)$The company closed with a sharp increase of 26.09% and a turnover of US$3,503 billion. Nippon Steel and American Steel Co., Ltd. jointly announced on Monday that Nippon Steel will make a cash-only acquisition of American Steel at a price of 55 US dollars/share. This price is nearly 40% superior to last Friday's closing price of $39.33.

US Senator Fetterman said on Monday: “For workers, [Nippon Steel]'s deal to acquire US Steel was wrong.”

14th$Adobe (ADBE.US)$It closed 2.47% higher and traded $3,248 million. On Monday, December 18 EST, Adobe and Figma jointly announced that they agreed to terminate the merger and acquisition agreement announced by the two parties on September 15 last year. The two companies stated in a statement that they still believe in the merger's benefits and benefits to competition, and agreed to terminate the merger because the two sides jointly assessed that “there is no clear way to obtain the necessary regulatory approval from the European Commission and the UK Competition and Market Authority (CMA).”

The above statement means that Adobe's $20 billion cash-combined stock acquisition of Figma is in the dead, and it is also an “miscarriage” of one of the largest private software manufacturer deals in history. For this, Adboe will pay Figma a $1 billion reverse break-up fee. The abandonment of the deal undoubtedly thwarted Adobe's bet on entering the Internet. Figma has quickly taken over the online market, and most of Adobe's products are still desktop programs aimed at experts.

15th$Netflix (NFLX.US)$It closed up 2.98% and traded $3.115 billion. The company said last week that Netflix Games will have 86 games by the end of the year, and 90 are under development.

18th place$Super Micro Computer (SMCI.US)$It closed 7.36% higher and traded $1,836 million.

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