The United States will use the proceeds from frozen Russian assets to lend to Ukraine. In October this year, the leaders of the Group of Seven reached a consensus on the details of providing Ukraine with a loan of 50 billion US dollars with the proceeds from frozen Russian assets as collateral. As part of the G-7 loan, the United States promised to grant Ukraine a loan of $20 billion. The Ukrainian cabinet recently issued a resolution saying that it has finalized the details of the loan with the US and approved the relevant loan agreement. Russian Finance Minister Siluanov said last month that since western countries have decided to use Russian assets and income from assets, Russia will also take corresponding actions to freeze the assets of western investors, financial market participants and companies, and will use the income generated from these assets.Norwegian Natural Gas Company: From December 11th to December 12th, Colesnes Natural Gas Treatment Plant stopped production 6 million cubic meters/day.The commodity currency NZD/USD fell by 1.0% to 0.5807.
Amazon will try out the fast delivery service in India and promise to deliver it within 15 minutes. amit agarwal, senior vice president of emerging markets of Amazon, said in an interview on December 10th that Amazon will try out the delivery service in Bangalore, India for 15 minutes or less. "The catalogue of products involved in the service will range from groceries to household items, depending on the community it serves". Companies such as Blinkit, a subsidiary of Indian takeaway giant Zomato, Swiggy supported by Softbank and BigBasket, a subsidiary of Tata Group, dominate the Indian grocery express delivery market, and some of them have launched the fastest 10-minute express delivery service.Trump's nominated chairman of the SEC once blamed the US government for FTX's downfall, and Trump's nominated chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission once blamed the FTX cryptocurrency exchange's collapse on an unusual suspect, that is, the US government itself. Atkins, 66, witnessed the disaster of FTX with his own eyes, and the collapse of the encryption empire still reverberates in the digital asset world. Patomak Global Partners, his consulting firm in Washington, DC, was listed as a creditor of FTX bankruptcy case, and the date of signing the consulting agreement of its board of directors was January 2022, about 10 months before the bankruptcy of Bankman-Fried. According to court documents, the company also served as a lobbyist for FTX. Atkins pointed out in a podcast last year that "the collapse of FTX was an international disaster, and I think it was because the United States did not formulate rules to adapt to this new technology". He also admitted that the fraud of Bankman-Fried was the core reason for the collapse of the exchange.VESTIS, a supplier of workplace supplies, once rose 9.4%, the highest since May 1. In the news, VESTIS is interested in the acquisition of many companies.
Top fund managers say that Trump's tariff plan is influenced or less than expected by the negotiation strategy. Some of the most influential and powerful fund managers in the world believe that the potential extensive tariffs of US President-elect Donald Trump are only negotiation strategies. This was the key message delivered by Jenny Johnson, CEO of Franklin Templeton, and Anne Walsh, Chief Investment Officer of Guggenheim Partners Investment Management, when they spoke at the event "Women, Money and Power" held by Bloomberg in London on Tuesday. "I think tariffs are still more of a negotiation strategy than the inevitable situation we will see," Walsh said. "I think it will be more targeted." Johnson expressed a similar view, adding that such measures are often "inflationary".US Secretary of State Blinken: The Syrian people will decide the future of Syria.Institution: Bitcoin seems difficult to maintain its upward momentum. Bitcoin rose slightly in the day, but the transaction price was lower than the key level of $100,000 recently, because this cryptocurrency seems difficult to maintain its upward momentum. Last Thursday, after President-elect Trump nominated Paul Atkins, who supports cryptocurrencies, as the chairman of the SEC, Bitcoin reached a record high of $103,000. Trade Nation analyst David Morrison said in a report: "Yesterday, Bitcoin briefly broke through the $100,000 mark again, but shortly after the opening of the US stock market, with the selling of the stock market, Bitcoin plummeted."