🚨 World's Biggest Goods Importers 2024: US Tops at $3.36T

13% of Global Total! 📦🌍🇺🇸

Top 5:
1. 🇺🇸 USA: $3.36T
2. 🇨🇳 China: $2.59T
3. 🇩🇪 Germany: $1.42T
4. 🇬🇧 UK: $816B
5. 🇳🇱 Netherlands: $814B

Asia & Europe heavy hitters, but America buys the most.

#Imports #GlobalTrade #Economy #USA #China

What Europe actually imports from Mercosur might surprise you

The EU gets essential raw materials & commodities it needs (or doesn't produce enough of):
oil, animal feed for livestock, coffee, ores, pulp...

Top EU imports from Mercosur (€ billion):
Petroleum oils & related — €12
Animal feed (soy meal etc.) — €7
Coffee, tea, cocoa, spices — €5
Ores & metal scrap — €5
Oil seeds — €4
Over 80% primary goods. T
otal imports ~€56B.

Trade is balanced (~€111B total), complementary (EU sends pharma, machinery, cars), and tiny for EU overall (<2% of extra-EU trade).

The Mercosur deal debate often misses these facts it's about securing supply chains (see what is doung also Trump in south america)

#EUMercosur #Trade #Energy #Agriculture #FactsMatter

Saturday, Dec 20 2025, 12:00 UTC time

Latest Important Headlines

📋 📋 US — Drug price deals, tariffs avoided & Fed leadership in focus
📋 Trump has secured agreements with nine pharmaceutical firms aimed at lowering US drug prices and averting proposed tariffs — a material fiscal and political move that could ease consumer inflation pressures and temper healthcare cost headlines. At the same time, markets watch leadership at the Federal Reserve: contenders for the Fed’s top job remain a key macro risk, with potential implications for interest-rate guidance and dollar direction.

✅ ✅ Inflation debate — White House backs Trump’s read
✅ White House adviser Kevin Hassett told Fox Business that Trump’s assessment on inflation aligns with reality where others are wrong, reinforcing expectations that US policy rhetoric may lean toward arguing inflation is peaking — a narrative that can influence Fed communication, bond yields and USD sentiment.

🔖 🔖 Asia & commodities — BOJ hikes; Yen softens; China rare-earths remain strong
🔖 The Bank of Japan raised interest rates, yet the yen weakened against peers — indicating market emphasis on relative rate trajectories and risk flows rather than a simple policy move. Meanwhile China reported near-record November exports of rare-earth magnets, supporting industrial supply-chain dynamics and commodity-linked FX for exporters (AUD, NZD, CAD) and tech supply risks.

📌 📌 Canada retail rebound & market takeaway
📌 Canada saw retail sales rebound in November, signaling resilient domestic demand and potential Bank of Canada implications — supportive for the CAD versus peers. Overall takeaway for forex and risk assets: policy moves (Fed candidates, BOJ hike), political deals (US pharma/tariffs) and real-side data (Canada retail, China rare-earth exports) are the near-term drivers for USD, JPY, CAD and commodity-linked currencies.

Market impact nutshell: lower US drug-costs narrative + calming tariff risk = modestly risk-positive; Fed leadership uncertainty = USD/volatility risk; BOJ/yen dynamics + China export flows = watch JPY and commodity FX; Canada retail = CAD supportive.

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Morgan Stanley expects the global robotics market to grow from $91B today to $25T by 2050 — a 250× expansion 🤖🚀

Robotics is a full stack — these stocks stand to benefit 👇

🥇𝗧𝗶𝗲𝗿 𝟭: 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀 + 𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲
$NVDA | Nvidia
$TSLA | Tesla
$GOOGL | Alphabet
$AMZN | Amazon
$MSFT | Microsoft

🥈 𝗧𝗶𝗲𝗿 𝟮: 𝗣𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀
$ABB | ABB
$FANUY | FANUC
$TER | Teradyne
$ROK | Rockwell Automation
$ZBRA | Zebra Technologies

🥉 𝗧𝗶𝗲𝗿 𝟯: 𝗥𝗼𝗯𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲, 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 & 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝘆
$ISRG | Intuitive Surgical
$MBLY | Mobileye
$QCOM | Qualcomm
$CGNX | Cognex
$PTC | PTC

⚙️ 𝗧𝗶𝗲𝗿 𝟰: 𝗗𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗲, 𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 & 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀
$AVAV | AeroVironment
$LMT | Lockheed Martin
$SYM | Symbotic
$HON | Honeywell
$SERV | Serve Robotics

What’s your top pick for the robotics era? 🤖🚀

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Top 100 24h Gainers 🚀

CC            $0.0971        +29.49%
UNI          $6.08            +16.52%
LEO          $8.39            +13.28%
NIGHT      $0.0749        +12.90%
AERO        $0.5198        +7.19% 

Top 100 24h Losers 🔻

M              $1.37            -3.70% 
STRK        $0.0822        -2.57% 
PENGU      $0.009227    -2.28% 
RENDER    $1.29            -1.94% 
APT          $1.60            -1.83%

Is #copper the next #oil?

IMF forecasts copper demand to surge +66% by 2040 (23.5M → 39.1M tonnes) as the world electrifies

But what’s the future of oil? Do you agree with the below
Forecast?

#Copper #oott #Energy #Commodities #Mining

Big events this week

- Monday:
🇺🇸 US PCE Price Index

- Tuesday:
🇺🇸 US GDP Growth Rate (Q3)
🇺🇸 PCE Prices

- Wednesday:
🇺🇸 Initial Jobless Claims
🇯🇵 BOJ Meeting Minutes

- Thursday:
🇺🇸 Stock Market Closed (Christmas)