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Ukrainian presidential aide: Ukraine and Portugal have reached an agreement on joint production of Ukrainian maritime drones.

Market News: Executives at the U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) were inspired by conservative news media to push for a mortgage fraud investigation into Democratic members of Congress, government emails show.

Russian Ministry of Defense: Russian troops have occupied Svetlei in the Donetsk region of Ukraine.

Russian Ministry of Defense: Russian troops have captured Visok in Sumy Oblast, Ukraine. (Interfax)

U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC): Equity fund managers increased their net long positions in the S&P 500 CME Group by 17,972 contracts to 958,734 contracts in the week ended December 9. Equity fund speculators increased their net short position on the S&P 500 CME Group by 7,057 contracts to 448,341 contracts.

U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC): As of the week of December 9, the net long position in the yen was 17,448 contracts, and the net long position in the euro was 138,788 contracts.

U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC): COMEX copper speculators increased their net long positions by 6,879 lots to 71,083 lots in the week ended December 9.

U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC): In the week ended December 9, the net short position of WTI held by crude oil speculators decreased by 38,888 lots to 12,038 lots.

According to Business Insider: Google has warned some visa employees not to leave the United States because they may face "significant" delays of up to a year in returning home.

US President Trump: We are carrying out a very strong attack on the strongholds of the extremist organization "Islamic State" in Syria, and the Syrian government fully supports us.

Russian sources said that Russian presidential envoy Dmitriev will go to Miami to meet with U.S. envoys Witkov and Kushner, and Ukraine has no plans to participate in trilateral contacts.

Starlink: Starlink Internet service will soon be available on the entire Air France fleet.

President Trump: Insurance companies must make less money.

US President Trump: Insurance company meeting aimed at lowering prices.

US President Trump: We can ask insurance companies to lower prices, or we will exit the system. I have a meeting with insurance companies in the coming weeks.

U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA): November 2025 U.S. international trade data on goods and services will be released on January 29.

U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA): U.S. international trade data for goods and services in October 2025 will be released on January 8, 2026.

Fed Governor Milan: The president may decide that if there is a vacancy at the Fed, he wants me to join.

Goldman Sachs slightly lowered its forecast for U.S. natural gas inventory levels at the end of October 2026, lowering the forecast by 45 billion cubic feet to 354.4 billion cubic feet based on the current forward price curve.

Boehringer Ingelheim: Announced a broad agreement with the U.S. government to reduce drug costs for U.S. patients and expand its presence in the United States. It will invest US$10 billion by 2028 to expand its pharmaceutical research and development and manufacturing operations in the United States.