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BRUSSELS, Dec 18 - European Union leaders decided on Friday to borrow cash to loan 90 billion euros ($105 billion) to Ukraine to fund its defence against Russia for the next two years rather than use frozen Russian assets, sidestepping divisions over an unprecedented plan to finance Kyiv with Russian sovereign cash.
The leaders also gave the European Commission a mandate to keep working on a so-called
reparations loan based on Russian immobilised assets but that option proved unworkable for now, above all due to resistance from Belgium, where the bulk of the assets is held.
Today we approved a decision to provide 90 billion euros to Ukraine," EU summit chairman Antonio Costa told a press conference early on Friday morning after hours of talks among the leaders in Brussels. "As a matter of urgency, we will provide a loan backed by the European Union budget
The idea of EU borrowing initially seemed unworkable as it requires unanimity and Hungary's Russia-friendly Prime Minister Viktor Orban had opposed it. But Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic agreed to let the scheme go ahead as long as it did not impact them financially.
The EU leaders said Russian assets, totalling 210 billion euros in the EU, will remain frozen until Moscow pays war reparations to Ukraine. If Moscow ever takes such a step, Ukraine could then use the money to pay back the loan.
"This is good news for Ukraine and bad news for Russia and this was our intention," German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said.
The stakes for finding money for Kyiv were high because without the EU's financial help, Ukraine would run out of money in the second quarter of next year and most likely lose the war to Russia, which the EU fears would bring closer the threat of Russian aggression against the bloc.
The decision follows hours of discussions among leaders on the technical details of an unprecedented loan based on the frozen Russian assets, which turned out to be too complex or politically demanding to resolve at this stage.
The main difficulty was providing Belgium, where 185 billion euros of the total Russian assets in Europe are held, with sufficient guarantees against financial and legal risks from potential Russian retaliation for the release of the money to Ukraine.#BinanceAlphaAlert #TrumpTariffs #BTCVSGOLD #USJobsData #BinanceAlphaAlert

Dec 19 - Wall Street's main indexes opened higher on Friday, as technology stocks extended their rebound from an early-week selloff, while Nike tumbled after weak China sales weighed on its quarterly results.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (.DJI), opens new tab rose 87.38 points, or 0.21%, to 48,051.77. The S&P 500 (.SPX), opens new tab rose 20.66 points, or 0.33%, to 6,795.42, and the Nasdaq Composite (.IXIC), opens new tab rose 105.27 points, or 0.51%, to 23,111.63.

LONDON, Dec 19 - Central banks in big economies are signalling a change of stance as the Bank of Japan raised interest rates to a 30-year high on Friday.
A day earlier the European Central Bank all but confirmed it was done with monetary easing and the Bank of England cut rates in a narrow vote as dissenters cautioned about price pressures
Now all eyes are on how dovish the incoming next Federal Reserve will manage to be after some of the U.S. central bank's policymakers warned the world's biggest economy might already be running too hot.
The Swiss National Bank left its policy interest rate unchanged at 0% on December 11, the lowest among developed-market central banks, and said the recent agreement to reduce U.S. tariffs on Swiss goods had improved the economic outlook.
Even though Swiss inflation is at zero as the strong safe-haven franc lowers import costs, the bar for bringing rates into negative territory is high, and economists expect price growth to recover mildly next year and the SNB to stay on hold throughout 2026.
The Bank of Canada held its key rate at 2.25% last week, after 225 basis points of easing this cycle. Governor Tiff Macklem said the economy was proving resilient to U.S. trade measures.
The BOC is expected to keep rates on hold until 2027, after government spending and robust oil exports lifted third-quarter growth to 2.6% and the labour market
Sweden's Riksbank also expects previous monetary easing to begin lifting growth and with year-on-year inflation running just above its 2% target, it held rates at 1.75% on December 18 and analysts anticipate it will hike again in late 2026.
With unemployment stuck at a nine-year high, turning hawkish will be a tough choice for new Reserve Bank of New Zealand boss Anna Breman.
With a string of punchy rate cuts having helped propel inflation to the top end of the central bank's target range, however, money markets see New Zealand's cash rate nearing 3% by December 2026 from 2.25% currently
The European Central Bank has been firmly on hold at 2% since June and its latest pause on Thursday also came with upgrades to growth and inflation forecasts#USNonFarmPayrollReport #BTCVSGOLD #USJobsData #WriteToEarnUpgrade #CPIWatch

紐約，12月18日 - 美國消費者價格在截至11月的一年中上漲幅度低於預期，隨着報告受到政府長期停擺的影響，對美聯儲在1月降息的預期略有上升。
消費者價格指數在11月同比上漲2.7%，勞動部統計局週四表示。路透社調查的經濟學家預測CPI將上漲3.1%
由於政府的43天停擺阻止了10月數據的收集，BLS沒有發佈逐月CPI變化。10月CPI的發佈被取消，因爲價格數據無法追溯收集。

倫敦，12月18日 - 對於自夏季以來被美國市場所籠罩的歐洲市場，投資者希望德國——歐盟最大的經濟體——的消費狂潮能在2026年改變局面。但首先，他們需要看到證據表明這將會實現。
烏克蘭和平協議也可能提升市場信心。自從俄羅斯在2022年入侵其鄰國以來，歐洲股市幾乎沒有恢復流失的現金。
歐洲股市在2025年上半年表現優於美國股市。該地區團結起來增加國防開支，德國對其借貸規則進行了改革，而美國總統唐納德·特朗普的關稅削弱了投資者對美國資產的信心，產生了期待已久的MEGA，或稱"讓歐洲再次偉大"。

12月18日 - 黃金價格在週四保持穩定，受到溫和的美聯儲信號支持，但在本週關鍵的美國通脹數據發佈前，由於美元強勁而受到限制，而白銀則徘徊在創紀錄高位附近。
現貨黃金在格林威治標準時間0256時下跌0.2%，報每盎司4,332.29美元，此前週三晚間上漲超過1%。美國黃金期貨也下跌0.2%，報每盎司4,364.70美元。
現貨白銀上漲0.2%，報每盎司66.44美元，此前在前一交易日創下66.88美元的紀錄高位，並且今年迄今已上漲129%，超過黃金65%的漲幅，這得益於強勁的工業需求、穩定的投資興趣和庫存緊縮。

華盛頓，12月17日 - 億萬富翁投資者瑞·達里奧將幫助資助特朗普政府在康涅狄格州的某些兒童投資賬戶，財政部長斯科特·貝森特在週三表示，另一家公司承諾匹配員工的貢獻。

達里奧的承諾是爲了在每個美國州爭取更多的外部捐助者。貝森特在一個關於2025年至2028年出生兒童項目的活動中表示，另外二十個美國州正在考慮向聯邦資助的賬戶添加州資金。

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