European members of NATO are considering increasing the proportion of military expenditure. On December 12th, the Financial Times reported that some European members of NATO are considering increasing the proportion of national defense expenditure in their gross domestic product (GDP) from the current 2% to 3%, which will bring budgetary pressure to many European countries.Georgian President: He will not leave the presidential palace after his term ends. On December 13th, local time, Georgian President Zurabishvili said that he would not leave the presidential palace after his term ends. Georgian President Zurabishvili said on November 30th local time that although her term of office is coming to an end, she will not hand over power because the current parliament is illegal. She will remain president "until a new parliament is legally elected". According to the Georgian Constitution, Zurabishvili's six-year term will expire on December 16th. The Georgian Parliament passed a resolution on November 26th, deciding to hold the presidential election on December 14th and the inauguration ceremony of the new president on December 29th. Georgia held a new parliamentary election on October 26, and the Georgian Dream Party won more than half of the votes. Four opposition coalitions, which also entered the parliament, refused to recognize the election results and demanded a new parliamentary election. Zurabishvili announced on October 27th that it would not recognize the results of the new parliamentary election.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.
Fitch: Adjust the outlook of Uzbekistan to negative.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.WTI crude oil rose 1.5% in the day to 70.71 USD/barrel.
TSMC's first Japanese wafer fab is expected to carry out mass production before the end of the year.U.S. stocks continued to fall, with the Dow Jones index dropping 104.99 points, or 0.24%. The Nasdaq Composite Index recently fell 59.41 points, or 0.3%. The S&P 500 index recently fell 13.86 points, or 0.23%.Google will appeal against the decision of the Turkish competition authority, which decided to fine Google 2.61 billion lira ($75 million) for taking advantage of its dominant position in the advertising server service market. Google said on Friday that it intends to appeal this decision. A spokesman for the company said that the decision of the Turkish competition authority did not take into account the fierce competition, and there were many choices for advertising buyers and sellers.