Greek officials said that they would buy artillery systems from Israel, and two Greek officials said that Greece was in deep negotiations to buy 36 sets of PULS rocket launcher systems from Israel to promote the modernization of its armed forces, with a value of 600 million to 700 million euros.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.Japanese yen moves towards the longest losing streak since June. Traders bet that the Bank of Japan will stay put and the yen will move towards the longest losing streak against the US dollar since June. Traders bet that the Bank of Japan will not raise interest rates next week. The yen continued to fall on Friday, falling 0.7% against the US dollar to 153.72 yen, the lowest level since November 26th. The yen has fallen for the fifth day in a row, and is heading for the worst weekly performance in more than two months. Earlier this week, it was reported that the Bank of Japan thought that it would not pay a huge price to wait until January or later, because there were signs that there was little risk that inflation might exceed the target. It is reported that officials are still open to taking action next week, depending on data and market trends.
Russia's GDP in the third quarter increased by 3.1% year-on-year, in line with expectations.Alumina broke away from last week's record high, and panic buying related to Guinea subsided. LME copper futures closed down 39 US dollars to 9052 US dollars/ton. LME aluminum closed up $6 to $2,605/ton. LME zinc futures closed up $20 to $3,096/ton. LME lead closed up $4 to $2010/ton. LME nickel futures closed down $306 to $15,862/ton. LME tin closed down $437 to $29,097/ton. LME cobalt was flat at $24,300/ton.TSMC's first Japanese wafer fab is expected to carry out mass production before the end of the year.
Morgan stanley capital international's MSCI Nordic Countries Index fell 1.4%, the worst one-day performance since November 15th, to 376.43 points, with a cumulative decline of more than 2.27% this week. Novo Nordisk closed down 3.9%, the worst performance among the constituent stocks.Turkey said it would crack down on Kurdish armed forces in Syria. Turkish President Erdogan held talks with visiting US Secretary of State Blinken in Ankara on December 12. The two sides discussed the latest situation in Syria and bilateral relations. Erdogan said that Turkey would crack down on all "terrorist organizations" such as the PKK.Google spokesperson: Google intends to appeal the decision of the Turkish Competition Authority. Earlier, the Turkish antitrust agency fined Google $75 million for advertising technology investigation.
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Strategy guide 12-14
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Strategy guide 12-14