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On 10 Dec 2025, Amazon unexpectedly increased its India pledge by another $35 billion through 2030 to fund AI, cloud, and quick-commerce logistics, more than doubling the future capital it had publicly earmarked just five months earlier.
At a 5 Dec 2025 COREPER II meeting, Budapest alone blocked unanimous consent for issuing EU-backed eurobonds, eliminating the bloc’s fallback and forcing leaders to decide by 18 Dec whether to finance a €90-165 billion loan to Kyiv solely via profits and guarantees tied to Russia’s €200 billion in frozen reserves.
On 9 Dec 2025 India’s aviation regulator ordered IndiGo to slash its approved winter schedule and face a formal probe after the carrier’s failure to cope with new pilot-fatigue rules triggered days of 170-plus daily cancellations.
On 8 Dec 2025, President Trump authorized a $12 billion emergency payout financed by tariff revenue to offset farm income lost to his own renewed trade war, promising checks within twelve weeks.
On 9 Dec 2025, President Trump warned he will slap an extra 5 % duty on all Mexican imports unless Mexico releases 200,000 acre-feet of Rio Grande water owed under the 1944 treaty by 31 Dec, citing an 800 k-acre-feet delivery deficit hurting Texas farms.
On 5 Dec 2025, after unveiling legal texts to collateralise €210 bn in frozen Russian reserves, Ursula von der Leyen and Friedrich Merz held emergency Brussels talks with Belgian PM Bart De Wever, whose veto threatens the EU’s plan to raise a €90 bn loan for Ukraine’s 2026-27 budget.
A 5.9 % year-on-year jump in November 2025 exports pushed China’s cumulative trade surplus to a record $1.08 trillion, passing the symbolic $1 trillion mark even though sales to the U.S. collapsed.
On 7 Dec 2025 Bloomberg reported that Johny Srouji, Apple’s SVP of Hardware Technologies, told Tim Cook he may leave—capping six months in which at least six other top executives have quit or retired.
Leaks on 6–7 Dec 2025 said SpaceX is arranging a secondary share sale at >$400 a share that would peg its worth near $800 billion—twice July’s figure—while Elon Musk insists no new fundraising is underway.
As Bitcoin slipped back under $90,000 on 6-7 Dec 2025, economists led by Steve Hanke branded it “worth zero” while JPMorgan’s new model simultaneously pegged fair value near $170,000 within a year, exposing the widest mainstream valuation gap to date.
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