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General Motors said Thursday it will record $7.1 billion in special charges for the fourth quarter of last year related to its pullback in electric vehicles and restructuring efforts in China.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he is ordering his representatives to buy $200 billion in mortgage bonds to bring down housing costs.

Nonfarm payrolls were expected to rise by 73,000 in December as the unemployment rate moved lower to 4.5%, according to the Dow Jones consensus estimate

Johnson & Johnson has said it will lower the price of some medications sold to U.S. consumers, making it the latest pharmaceutical company to form a business agreement with the Trump administration.

United States Housing Starts (MoM) came in at 1.246M, below expectations (1.33M) in October

Oil major Chevron Corp, global trading houses Vitol and Trafigura, and other firms are competing for U.S. government deals to export crude oil from Venezuela, according to sources familiar with the matter.

EU member states on Friday gave the green light to the signing of the Mercosur agreement, paving the way for a vast trade bloc taking in more than 700 million people across Europe and Latin America. France, however, plans to continue its fight against the deal in the European Parliament.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) said on Friday its December sales fell from the previous month but grew annually, capping off a positive year as AI-fueled chip demand remained strong.

German exports unexpectedly fell while industrial output ticked up in November, official data showed on Friday, highlighting both the challenges Europe’s biggest economy faces globally and moderate improvement at home.

China’s consumer inflation accelerated in December to the fastest pace in nearly three years as spending picked up ahead of the New Year holiday, while factory-gate deflation remained entrenched, signaling that underlying demand stayed weak.

US President Donald Trump said a second wave of attacks on Venezuela has been canceled, citing improved cooperation from the country.

Intel stock rose 2.7% in after-hours trading on Thursday following positive comments from President Donald Trump on social media. Trump highlighted a recent meeting with Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, praising the company’s launch of “the first SUB 2 NANOMETER CPU PROCESSOR designed, built, and packaged right here in the U.S.A.”

Glencore’s London-listed shares popped 10% on Friday, after it was confirmed a possible $260 billion takeover bid from Rio Tinto was back on the table.

Meta Platforms said on Friday it struck 20-year agreements to buy power from three Vistra plants in the U.S. heartland and develop projects with two companies hoping to build small modular reactors. Shares of Oklo surged nearly 20%, whereas Vistra rose about 8% in premarket trade.

US pharmaceutical group Merck is in talks to buy Revolution Medicines, a cancer drugmaker with a market capitalisation of more than $20bn in what would be the latest big deal in the red-hot biotechnology sector.

Ο όμιλος Τιτάν ενισχύει την παρουσία της στις ΗΠΑ με μια στρατηγική εξαγορά της Keystone Cement Company, εταιρεία παραγωγής τσιμέντου και αδρανών υλικών με έδρα την Πενσυλβάνια, έναντι τιμήματος 310 εκατ. δολαρίων.

Σημαντική άνοδο εμφάνισε για τον Δεκέμβριο και για το τέλος του 2025 ο δείκτης οικονομικού κλίματος στην Ελλάδα που καταρτίζει η Ευρωπαϊκή Επιτροπή, σύμφωνα με τα στοιχεία που δημοσίευσε την Πέμπτη η Κομισιόν.

Συμμετοχή μόνο των σημερινών μετόχων στην επικείμενη ΑΜΚ φαίνεται να εξετάζει η κυβέρνηση. Το σενάριο που απομακρύνει προς ώρας την είσοδο ξένου επενδυτή στον ΑΔΜΗΕ και η γεωπολιτική συγκυρία.

H S&P επισημαίνει ότι η προοπτική περαιτέρω αναβάθμισης της Ελλάδας θα εξαρτηθεί από τη διατήρηση της προόδου σε ό,τι αφορά τη συρρίκνωση των εξωτερικών ανισορροπιών, συμπεριλαμβανομένης της περαιτέρω μείωσης στο ακόμα υψηλό εξωτερικό χρέος.

Αύξηση πωλήσεων κατά 7,22% κατέγραψε ο Όμιλος Jumbo για το σύνολο του 2025, παρά τις σημαντικές προκλήσεις που αντιμετώπισε η εφοδιαστική αλυσίδα τόσο στην Ελλάδα όσο και διεθνώς.