WTI crude oil rose 1.5% in the day to 70.71 USD/barrel.Russia's GDP in the third quarter increased by 3.1% year-on-year, in line with expectations.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.
German regulators investigate potential abuse of electricity price increases.The US media said that Trump proposed that the EU send peacekeepers to Ukraine. On December 12, 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 the possible ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia. (CCTV International News)US stocks fell, with the S&P 500, Nasdaq and Dow Jones all down 0.1%.
Goldman Sachs: Preliminary data from EPFR show that the allocation of global mutual funds to China stocks declined in November. On the asset-weighted basis, active mutual funds still underallocate China stocks by 290 basis points. This week, China stock funds ushered in a strong inflow of $5.6 billion, breaking the previous trend of outflow for seven consecutive weeks.London cocoa futures rose more than 4% to 8516 pounds a ton.British Prime Minister's Spokesman: Stamer told G7 that Assad should be welcomed to step down, but we must be cautious about what happens next.