5 Things To Know: December 19, 2025

five things to know ahead of the opening bell this morning japan central bank raising its short term interest rates to a three decade high of point seven five percent that helped lift the country 's ten year treasury yield past two percent and the bank of japan also signaling

readiness to tighten further meantime data center deal is hitting a record sixty one billion dollars in twenty twenty five that's according to the S and P global european union leaders agreeing to loan ukraine more than a hundred billion dollars to help the country defend itself

from russia for the next two years but EU countries could not agree on a plan to use frozen assets from russia to support ukraine defense so that's still on the table house republican leaders committed to vote in the new year on legislation to ban members of congress from owning

or trading individual stocks that's been on the table for quite some time and the government on the way to potentially allowing sales of nvidia 's second most powerful AI chip to china reuters reporting that the commerce department has sent licensed applications for sales of

nvidia 's H two hundred processor to the state energy and defense departments for review