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CMB International

Incorporated in Hong Kong, supported by the mainland and targeting in global market, CMB International Capital Corporation Limited (“CMBI”) is an integrated financial institution providing comprehensive and professional services. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Merchants Bank ("CMB"), by leveraging on the Group’s synergy and coordination in domestic and overseas markets, as well as CMB’s strong resources and outstanding social reputation, CMBI and its subsidiaries have been actively implementing diversified business strategies and set up an overall layout of main business segments including Corporate Finance, Asset Management, Wealth Management, Global Markets and Structured Finance, etc. Adhering to the philosophy of “being clients oriented and increasing our own values by the way of creating value for clients”, CMBI endeavors to provide quality and integrated financial services to institutional, corporate and individual customers both domestic and overseas including Hong Kong IPO sponsorship and underwriting, share placement and rights issue for listed companies, financial advisors, bonds issuance services, asset management, direct investment, wealth management, equity sales and trading, etc.

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Thematic (Sector/Industry)

China Consumer discretionary / Thematic (Sector/Industry)

<ul><li>China’s passenger-vehicle (PV) retail sales volume rose 2% YoY and 8% MoM to 1.92mn units in Aug 2023, the 3rd highest Aug in history, and 1% higher than our prior forecast.</li><li>YTD retail sales volume rose 3% YoY. Wholesale volume rose 7% YoY and 8% MoM to 2.27mn units in Aug 2023, the best Aug in history, and 2% higher than our prior forecast.</li><li>Wholesale volume rose 7% YoY (or +0.99mn units YoY) YTD, aided by 70% YoY growth (or +1.01mn units YoY) of exports. </li></ul><p><em>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.</em></p>

China’s passenger-vehicle (PV) retail sales volume rose 2% YoY and 8% MoM to 1.92mn units in Aug 2023, the 3rd highest Aug in history, and 1% higher than our prior forecast.YTD retail sales volume rose 3% YoY. Wholesale volume rose 7% YoY and 8% MoM to 2.27mn units in Aug 2023, the best Aug in history, and 2% higher than our prior forecast.Wholesale volume rose 7% YoY (or +0.99mn units YoY) YTD, aided by 70% YoY growth (or +1.01mn units YoY) of exports. Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

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