Regent Avenue in London celebrates the Christmas season on November 13, 2025 in London, England.
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December tends to sneak up on us, asking the perennial query: the place did the 12 months go? The ultimate month typically looks like each a end line and a mirror, reflecting the 12 months’s highs, lows, and every little thing between.
Markets, in the meantime, are hoping for an early Christmas reward from the U.S. Federal Reserve as policymakers collect for his or her remaining assembly of the 12 months subsequent week.
Merchants are largely anticipating a 25-basis-point minimize in keeping with the CME Fedwatch device, a transfer they hope will kickstart the “Santa Claus rally” that always nudges markets larger into the year-end.
Nonetheless, the forecast is not solely clear skies for Santa’s sleigh.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s more and more bellicose rhetoric has raised the spectre of attainable army motion in Venezuela, whereas current volatility over the AI theme has traders questioning whether or not uncertainty will construct, or in a worst-case state of affairs, give approach to a bubble that lastly pops.
If time flies, then 2025 moved at supersonic velocity, and December is its touchdown strip. So please fasten your seat belts, stow your tray tables, and put your seats within the upright place.
Pleased December!
What you could know right now
China manufacturing unit exercise nonetheless in contraction. The nation’s manufacturing unit exercise edged larger in November however remained caught in contraction for the eighth consecutive month. Manufacturing PMI rose to 49.2, up 0.2 factors from October, and according to economists’ expectations in a Reuters ballot.
India GDP accelerates. The Indian financial system grew quicker than anticipated for the quarter ending September, increasing 8.2% 12 months on 12 months. The sharp enchancment within the GDP development charge was on account of a pick-up in manufacturing and development exercise and in home consumption.
Wingtech-Nexperia disagreement heats up. Dutch chipmaker Nexperia has publicly referred to as on its China unit to assist restore provide chain operations, warning in an open letter that prospects throughout industries are reporting “imminent manufacturing outages.”
Markets climb in shortened Thanksgiving session. All three U.S. indexes gained in a shortened Friday session, with the Nasdaq Composite scoring its fifth straight day of good points and rising 0.65%. The S&P 500 gained 0.54% and the Dow Jones Industrial Common grew 0.61%.
[PRO] A shiny outlook for silver. Buzz round gold has rippled by means of markets this 12 months — however silver has been quietly going alongside for the trip, culminating in a brand new file excessive that analysts say may double within the coming years.
And at last…
An American Airways aircraft is parked at a gate on the LaGuardia Airport in New York Metropolis, U.S., Nov. 18, 2025.
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Airbus A320 recall disrupts international journey after glitch linked to photo voltaic flares
1000’s of vacationers worldwide had been stranded after Airbus ordered fast software program fixes for six,000 A320-series plane, a transfer that affected greater than half of the narrow-body fleet and compelled airways to floor jets throughout one of many busiest journey weekends of the 12 months.
The directive — among the many largest within the 55-year historical past of Airbus — shortly spilled into U.S. vacation journey and stretched to Australia. The disruption, linked to photo voltaic flares, hit particularly laborious in Asia, the place the single-aisle A320 household anchors short-haul networks.
The European Union Aviation Security Company stated in a directive on Friday {that a} JetBlue flight on Oct. 30 skilled an “uncommanded and restricted pitch down occasion.”
— Victor Loh
