Canada's Labor Minister expressed the hope that Canada Post would resume operations early next week.American natural gas futures fell more than 5% and are now reported at $3.277 per million British heat.Italian Minister of Energy: If the conflict with Russia and Ukraine ends, we will not rule out importing natural gas from Russia in the future.
How to do economic work next year? Understand the ten important formulations of the Central Economic Work Conference, which was held in Beijing from December 11th to 12th. The meeting analyzed the current economic situation and deployed economic work in 2025. Formulation 1: "Continuously deepen the understanding of the regularity of economic work". Formulation 2: "Maintain steady economic growth". Formulation 3: "More active fiscal policy". Formulation 4: "Moderately loose monetary policy". Formulation 5: "Expand domestic demand in all directions". Formulation 6: "Comprehensively rectify the' involution' competition". Formulation 7: "Deepen the comprehensive reform of investment and financing in the capital market". Formulation 8: "Continue to push the real estate market to stop falling and stabilize". Formulation 9: "Coordinated promotion of policy implementation and expected guidance". Formulation 10: "Stimulate the endogenous motivation of the entrepreneurs". (Xinhua News Agency)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.Abbott's share price quickly fell to 1%.
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.According to sources, the US Securities and Exchange Commission has extended the time limit for elon musk to respond to the Twitter investigation and settlement proposal until Monday.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.