The pharmacy chain WBA rose to 4%. It is reported that Sycamore Partners LP is arranging a debt financing plan for the acquisition of WBA. Sycamore has contacted lenders such as Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase.London cocoa futures rose more than 4% to 8516 pounds a ton.Germany, France, Britain and other foreign ministers issued statements in support of Ukraine's accession to NATO, and European foreign ministers and European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Karl á s issued a joint statement in Berlin, Germany on the 12th, expressing support for increasing military, economic and financial assistance to Ukraine and continuing to support Ukraine's accession to NATO and the European Union. According to German media reports, the meeting was convened by German Foreign Minister Berber and attended by foreign ministers from France, Britain, Italy, Spain and Poland. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss how the United States should respond if it reduces its aid to Ukraine. The German Foreign Ministry said on its official website that many foreign ministers said at the meeting that Europe would mobilize more resources to help Ukraine and commit itself to providing unbreakable security guarantees to Ukraine, including providing reliable and long-term military and financial support.
Dennis Shen, an economist at Scope Ratings: The reasons for the Fed to cut interest rates further after December are obviously reduced. Inflation is still sticky, the economic and financial markets are overheated, and the slight increase in unemployment rate earlier this year has been reversed. The Trump administration may bring more inflation risks in the short term.Bank of Mexico: High inflation may affect economic activities.TSMC's first Japanese wafer fab is expected to carry out mass production before the end of the year.
The Russian Defense Ministry said that within one week (December 7-13), the Russian army eliminated 12,090 Ukrainian troops in a special military operation against Ukraine.Economists predict that the Fed will only cut interest rates three times next year. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg expect that the Fed will cut interest rates for the third time in a row this month, and lower the expected number of interest rate cuts next year. The market expects Federal Reserve Chairman Powell and his colleagues to cut interest rates by 25 basis points next week. If the expectation is true, it means that interest rates have been lowered by 1 percentage point since September. Next year's interest rate cut will slow down faster than officials expected three months ago. Most economists predict that interest rates will be cut only three times in 2025 because of the small progress in fighting inflation.Major European stock indexes closed down across the board, and major European stock indexes closed down across the board. The German DAX index fell 0.19% to 20386.88 points, up 0.01% this week. The French CAC40 index fell 0.29% to 7399.07 points, down 0.37% this week; Britain's FTSE 100 index fell 0.14% to 8300.33, down 0.1% this week.