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Today’s agenda: Trump’s anti -green attack. Meta paste the big AI bed. “Dome of iron for America”; lesson from Bill Gross. Did Mistral AI miss that moment?
good morning. Today, as part of the Ukrainian transaction, we will start with an exclusive story on the resurrection of Russian gas pipeline. This is what we know.
What is the important discussion of that? Defenders to buy Russian gas arguing that they will reduce high energy prices in Europe, encourage Moscow to negotiations, and to cease and maintain a ceasefire. The target of the EU is to remove the energy system of all Russian fossil fuels blocks by 2027. However, the miserable strait of the EU in the EU increases the need for more cheaper energy, and European gas costs are usually 3-4 times higher than the United States.
What do your opponents say? Restoration of the resumption of gas sales approved by German and Hungary officials has already caused a rebound among the nearest EU allies in Ukraine, and many of them have imported Russian energy in the past three years. I have worked to reduce the block. Resuming exports to Europe will greatly increase Moscow’s revenue. “It’s crazy,” said the officials. “How stupid can you even think of it as an option?” Read the whole story.
This is the other we are maintaining the tab today:
Economic data: EU, France, Germany, and the United States have released the fourth quarter GDP estimation. The EU also has an unemployment rate in December.
EU monetary policy: European Central Bank is expected to reduce major interest rates into quarters. See the policy rates tracker around the world.
Companies: Apple, Deutsche Bank, GLENCORE, MasterCard, Shell, and Visa are one of the reports. For a complete list, see this week’s newsletter.
Further 5 top stories
1. Exclusive: Donald Trump has eliminated more than 70 climate and green energy initiatives in his first week, according to the new president’s administrative order, Financial Times analysis. The drastic movement has defeated the federal commitment and target for the purpose of fighting climate change, restrictions on the development of oil and gas, and accumulating clean energy accumulation.
2. Exclusive: SoftBank is discussing up to $ 250 billion in Openai, a transaction that becomes the largest financial supporter of Chatgpt manufacturers. The ambitious Gambit by Masayoshi’s son is a more wide strategy to fulfill his self -described mission to bring so -called “super intelligence.” This is what we know about transactions.
3. Automotive production in British plants fell below 1 million vehicles. The number of the Automobile Manufacturers Association and the Trader Association showed that this has been the worst year since COVID-19 Pandemic. Industry executives said the decline in exports and the decline in the abolition of the production of old models was “inevitable.”
Stellantis’s US reset: John ELKANN, a new chief of the FIAT and JEEP owners, is ready to unlock more than $ 5 billion in the United States as the company has a close relationship with Trump. 。
4. TotalenerGies could not persuade the Joe Biden team to approve the $ 2 billion LNG development funding in Africa. This project became the largest foreign direct investment project on the continent when funding was secured in 2020, but it could face an “additional long delay”, so the oil group Chief Patrick Puyanne. Warns the retirement administration.
5. A passenger jet with 64 people and military helicopters collided near Reagan National Airport on the outskirts of Washington late on Wednesday, stated. A regional flight operated by American Airlines PSA Airlines and the US Army Black Hawk Helicopter collided around 9 pm. Please read the latest development.
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Last year, Mistral was welcomed as a potential global leader of AI technology. However, this week, China’s deep shek surprised Silicon Valley by releasing a state -of -the -art open source model that claims to be a small number of Openai or Meta resources and computing power. Did Europe’s great hope for AI miss that moment?
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The chart of the day
The survey of the MSCI show was recovered from two years of slump toward the end of 2024, as investors looked at houses and other sectors and continued to avoid office buildings while expecting to recover the real estate market. I started.

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