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At the 10 Dec 2025 Smbhav Summit in New Delhi, Amazon promised a further $35 billion for Indian AI, cloud and logistics projects, raising its end-of-decade investment target in the country from $40 billion already spent to $75 billion.
For the first time, SpaceX has opened talks with banks for a June–July 2026 stock debut that would raise at least $25 billion and value the company north of $1 trillion.
On 9 Dec 2025, Satya Nadella pledged a four-year US$17.5 billion outlay to build new hyperscale data centres, sovereign clouds, and AI-skills programs in India—Microsoft’s largest single investment in Asia—adding to the US$3 billion already underway.
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.
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