Trump proposed that the EU send peacekeepers to Ukraine. On the 12th, the US Wall Street Journal quoted people familiar with the matter as saying that US President-elect Trump had proposed that EU member states send peacekeepers to Ukraine to monitor a possible ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia. The article said that on the 7th, during his talks with French President Macron and Ukrainian President Zelensky, Trump said that Europe should play a major role in monitoring the ceasefire, and the United States would not send troops to participate. According to the report, the proposal is still in its early stage, and it is still unclear which countries will participate, how many troops will be sent and what role the United States will play in it. At the same time, it is also unknown whether EU countries can deploy soldiers to participate in the mission and whether they can get domestic political support. However, according to informed sources, Trump is not obsessed with any specific plan to end the conflict, and he has not thought deeply about this issue at present.CFTC: The net long position of gold, silver and copper reached a five-week high. CFTC: In the week of December 10th, the net long position of COMEX gold held by speculators increased by 18,792 contracts to 220,189 contracts, a five-week high. The net long position of COMEX silver increased to 30,685 contracts, a five-week high. The net long position of COMEX copper increased to 12,635 contracts, a five-week high. The net long position of NYMEX platinum held will reach a three-month low of2,892 contracts. The net short position of NYMEX palladium increased to 7,621 contracts, a record high of more than two months.Standard & Poor's: Cyprus is upgraded to A-, and the outlook is stable. The economic and financial situation (in the euro zone) performed well, so the rating was upgraded.
Standard & Poor's: With the strong economic growth, the tight fiscal system is supporting the rapid reconstruction of Cyprus' fiscal buffer.Fitch: Supply chain constraints and labor cost inflation will continue to affect global airlines until 2025.The financial difficulties led to the sell-off of the real, and the Brazilian central bank intervened, and the Brazilian central bank intervened in the foreign exchange market, which led to the sell-off of the real due to the deterioration of the country's financial prospects. Before the central bank issued the intervention statement, the real hovered near the intraday low, and the decline quickly narrowed after the statement was issued. At 14:52 Sao Paulo time (1:52 am Beijing time), the real fell by only 0.4% against the US dollar, making it no longer the worst emerging market currency on Friday.
Chicago wheat futures fell more than 1.1%, US demand fell, and global supply was strong. In late new york on Friday (December 13th), the Bloomberg Grain Sub-index fell 0.71% to 31.5695 points, and this week it has fallen 0.09%. CBOT corn futures fell 0.23% to $ 4.42-1/2 a bushel, up 0.57% this week. CBOT wheat futures fell 1.16% to $5.52/bushel, down 0.72% this week. CBOT soybean futures fell 0.77% to 9.95-1/2 USD/bushel, down 0.25% this week; Soybean meal futures fell by 1.21%, and fell by 0.67% this week, while soybean oil futures fell by 0.07% and fell by 0.65% this week.Italian President: The escalation of violence against civilians in Gaza is unacceptable. On December 13th, local time, Italian President Mattarella and Italian Prime Minister meloni respectively met with visiting Palestinian President Abbas in Rome. During the meeting, Italian President Mattarella said that the escalating violence against civilians, women and children in Gaza was unacceptable. Italy is committed to a real ceasefire in Gaza and hopes to realize the "two-state solution" immediately.Holzmann, a hawkish official of the European Central Bank: It is not the central bank's responsibility to boost the economy. Robert Holzmann, the ECB's governing board, said that it is wrong to think that the ECB's interest rate cut is simply to boost the economy. "It is not the responsibility of the European Central Bank to boost the economy, but the mission of the central bank is to stabilize prices," he said in an interview on Friday night. It runs counter to our position to boost the economy by cutting interest rates. Holzmann is one of the most hawkish central bankers. According to informed officials, the central bank plans to cut interest rates by another 25 basis points in January, and may do so in March.