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NVIDIA AI Computing Card captured in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China on Dec. 9, 2025. Cfoto | Future Publishing | Getty

Ben Powell, chief strategist for Middle East and Asia Pacific at BlackRock Investment Institute, at the Abu Dhabi Finance Week

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meets with US President Donald Trump’s Special Representative for Ukraine, General Keith Kellogg, in Washington D.C.

U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem holds a press conference, in Los Angeles, California, U.S., June 12, 2025. Aude

Yi He, co-founder of Binance, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on May 10, 2023. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images

A view of the NEO magnetic plant in Narva, a city in northeastern Estonia. A plant producing rare-earth magnets for

Apple’s latest iPhone models are shown on display at its Regent Street, London store on the launch day of the

Masayoshi Son, chairman and chief executive officer of SoftBank Group Corp., speaks at the SoftBank World event in Tokyo, Japan,

Regent Street in London celebrates the Christmas season on November 13, 2025 in London, England. Ben Montgomery | Getty Images

And just like that… December is upon us. It’s been a volatile handover from November with U.S. major indices underperforming,