The Brazilian real fell by 1% against the US dollar, the worst among emerging market currencies.Fitch: Adjust the outlook of Uzbekistan to negative.Brazilian President Lula posted a video on social media for the first time after undergoing head surgery.
European members of NATO are considering increasing the proportion of military expenditure. On December 12th, the Financial Times reported that some European members of NATO are considering increasing the proportion of national defense expenditure in their gross domestic product (GDP) from the current 2% to 3%, which will bring budgetary pressure to many European countries.Polish Central Bank Governor Glapinski: There is no basis for adjusting interest rates.Russia is negotiating with the new Syrian authorities to maintain its two military bases in Syria.
Goldman Sachs: Preliminary data from EPFR show that the allocation of global mutual funds to China stocks declined in November. On the asset-weighted basis, active mutual funds still underallocate China stocks by 290 basis points. This week, China stock funds ushered in a strong inflow of $5.6 billion, breaking the previous trend of outflow for seven consecutive weeks.NVIDIA position stock SoundHound AI soared nearly 16% in intraday trading, and has risen over 650% year-to-date, far exceeding NVIDIA's growth rate.American polls show that half of Americans lack confidence in Trump's ability to nominate qualified cabinet members. A recent poll by the Associated Press -NORC Public Affairs Research Center shows that half of Americans lack confidence in President-elect Trump's ability to nominate qualified people for the new cabinet or key administrative positions. According to the survey results, 55% of American respondents have "a little confidence" or "no confidence at all" in Trump's ability to select qualified candidates during his second term, and another 27% have "very confidence". The poll was conducted from December 5 to 9, and the respondents were 1251 American adults, with a margin of error of 3.7 percentage points.