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.Russia is negotiating with the new Syrian authorities to maintain its two military bases in Syria.President of Georgia: I don't intend to leave the presidential palace after my term expires.
Canada's Labor Minister expressed the hope that Canada Post would resume operations early next week.London cocoa futures rose more than 4% to 8516 pounds a ton. New york cocoa futures rose more than 4% to $11,296 a ton.New york cocoa futures rose more than 4% to $11,296 a tonne.
Russia is negotiating with the new Syrian authorities to maintain its two military bases in Syria.European natural gas futures fell by more than 11% this week, and the EU carbon tax fell by about 6%. At the end of the European market on Friday (December 13th), ICE UK natural gas futures fell by 3.41% to 102.560p/kcal, with a cumulative decline of 11.49% this week. TTF benchmark Dutch natural gas futures fell 3.57% to 41.030 Euro/MWh, down 11.67% this week. ICE EU carbon emissions trading license (futures price) fell 2.80% to 64.25 euros/ton, down 5.94% this week.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.
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