Thursday, December 31, 2020
Evening
- S&P 500 Rallies to Close the Year at Record High: Markets Wrap
- Wall Street closes out wild pandemic year with Dow, S&P at records
- More weakness seen as dollar posts worst year since 2017
- Oil edges higher, but posts 20% annual drop in tumultuous 2020
- Covid live updates: Hospital worker spoils 500 vaccine doses on purpose, airlines ban 1,400 mask-rule breakers
- SPACtacular: Blank-check firms hit the jackpot in 2020
- Iran's foreign minister says Trump trying to fabricate pretext to attack Iran
- N.Y. and California End Year Shattering Records: Virus Update
General
- Stocks Steady Near All-Time Highs; Dollar Dips: Markets Wrap
- Gold Heads for Best Year in a Decade With Dollar on the Ropes
- Dollar sucked into downward spiral by U.S. twin deficits
- U.S. Jobless Claims Post Surprise Drop Though Virus Risk Remains
- COVID-19 shook, rattled and rolled the global economy in 2020
- Covid live updates: U.S. Covid hospitalizations surpass 125,000 for the first time
- Fauci sees U.S. gaining control over pandemic by next autumn
- Local funding crisis threatens U.S. vaccine rollout
- Homebuyers in U.S. Face Worst Affordability Squeeze in 12 Years
- Cyber attack on U.S. government may have started earlier than initially thought - U.S. senator
- Day Traders Put Stamp on Market With Unprecedented Stock Frenzy
- Sizzling U.S. Stock Markets Await Next Leg of Record IPO Run
- Private Equity Turns to $3 Trillion in Untapped Value for Loans
- Tesla Short Sellers Lost $38 Billion in 2020 as Stock Surged
- China Caps Bank Loans to Real Estate to Curb Systematic Risk
- China’s Strong Recovery Shows Signs of Peaking as PMIs Ease
- China's factory recovery moderates as higher costs slow business
- China's services activity growth slows in December - official PMI
- China Averts Cash Squeeze That Was Wreaking Havoc on Bonds
- U.S. warships transit Taiwan Strait, China denounces 'provocation'
- Sluggish Vaccine Campaign Raises Specter of U.S. Dysfunction
- From Tech to Tesla, Stocks Get $14 Trillion Boost in Covid Year
- German Automakers Are Charged Up and Ready to Take on Tesla
- Lessons From a Crazy Year in Financial Markets
- Central bankers to retail punters: who shaped markets in 2020
- M&A rebounds sharply to hit $3.6tn in 2020
- Corporate debt sales to shrivel in 2021 after record boom