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The financial difficulties led to the sell-off of the real, and the Brazilian central bank intervened, and the Brazilian central bank intervened in the foreign exchange market, which led to the sell-off of the real due to the deterioration of the country's financial prospects. Before the central bank issued the intervention statement, the real hovered near the intraday low, and the decline quickly narrowed after the statement was issued. At 14:52 Sao Paulo time (1:52 am Beijing time), the real fell by only 0.4% against the US dollar, making it no longer the worst emerging market currency on Friday.Canadian Finance Minister: If the United States imposes unreasonable tariffs, Canada will make a strong response.Robert Holzmann, Governing Committee of the European Central Bank: It would be wrong to cut interest rates just to save the economy.

Us treasury secretary yellen: don't interfere with the proper supervision of bank capital, liquidity and risk taking to ensure the soundness of the banking system.Standard & Poor's: Cyprus is upgraded to A-, and the outlook is stable. The economic and financial situation (in the euro zone) performed well, so the rating was upgraded.The Arab League condemned Israel's occupation of the Israeli-Syrian military buffer zone. On the evening of the 12th local time, the Council of the League of Arab States (Arab League) held a meeting at the level of permanent representative in Cairo, the capital of Egypt. The meeting finally adopted a resolution condemning Israel's occupation of the Israeli-Syrian military buffer zone and the surrounding areas, including Mount Sheikh, Quneitra and the suburbs of Damascus. The resolution holds that Israel's actions violate the disengagement agreement signed by the two sides in 1974. The resolution also condemned Israel's attacks on some civilian and military sites in Syria. The resolution calls on the international community to urge Israel to abide by relevant resolutions of international legitimacy, especially Security Council resolution 497, which calls for Israel to withdraw its troops from the occupied Golan Heights.

Representatives of agricultural chambers of commerce in four Central and Eastern European countries opposed the trade agreement reached between the EU and MERCOSUR. On December 13th, local time, representatives of agricultural chambers of commerce from Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia held a meeting in Stahl Bousquet Pleso, Slovakia. At the press conference, the representatives of the four countries clearly expressed their opposition to the trade agreement reached between the EU and MERCOSUR. In addition, representatives of farmers' chambers of commerce also called for the restoration of agricultural products and food trade quotas with Ukraine. After the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the EU relaxed its trade rules with Ukraine and lifted the import ban on Ukrainian agricultural products.Investors caught up in the "Musk Deal" are rewarded handsomely. One fund has even soared by 500%. Whether it is a Wall Street fund or a small short-term trader, as long as they dare to bet heavily on elon musk's business empire, they are expected to make a lot of money this year, because Donald Trump's victory in the US election has strongly boosted the wealth surge of the world's richest man. Musk's support for Trump during the campaign and his appointment to lead the new government efficiency department made his enterprises, including Tesla and unlisted unicorn companies SpaceX and xAI, hot assets. The market value of these companies has soared this year, pushing Musk's own personal wealth to exceed $400 billion. The closed-end fund Destiny Tech100 Inc.(DXYZ) is such a fund that caught the wind of Musk's trading. Since the November 5 election, the fund has soared by more than 500%. The fund invests in the shares of unlisted unicorn companies, and its latest declaration shows that as of the end of September, the bet on SpaceX accounted for more than one-third of its positions. Trump's victory prompted a large number of retail investors to flood into the fund, pushing its transaction price far beyond the valuation of its underlying assets, and the premium level rose to an eye-popping high.According to people familiar with the matter, Verkada, a surveillance camera startup, negotiated to raise $200 million at a valuation of $4.5 billion, led by venture capital firm General Catalyst.