Thursday, December 24, 2020
General
- Wall Street closes with a modest gains on Brexit deal, stimulus hopes
- U.S. House speaker Pelosi presses Trump to sign bill avoiding government shutdown before Monday -Statement
- Coronavirus aid at risk as U.S. lawmakers block Trump's changes
- U.S. dollar share of global reserves slide in Q3 -IMF data
- U.S. Comfort Gauge for Economy Posts Steepest Slide Since April
- Republicans Will Keep Trying to Limit Fed’s Emergency Loan Power
- House Efforts to Alter Coronavirus Package Fail, Leaving Aid in Limbo
- Dave Collum: 2020 Year in Review
General
- U.S. Stocks Rise; Pound Gains as Brexit Finalized: Markets Wrap
- Brexit deal anticipation fuels stocks and sterling
- GOP blocks House Democrats’ attempt to pass $2,000 stimulus checks after Trump voices support
- Trump threatens COVID relief bill, testing loyalty of GOP
- UK and EU strike historic post-Brexit trade deal
- Covid live updates: Some Americans still planning trips for the new year despite rising cases, new strain
- 'Santa Claus rally' threatened by COVID-19 resurgence, Georgia elections
- Youth unemployment: a scourge of the COVID-19 economy
- Millions of U.S. vaccine doses sit on ice, putting 2020 goal in doubt
- Brexit Deal Gets Held Up by Last-Minute Haggling Over Fish
- China Targets Jack Ma’s Alibaba Empire in Monopoly Probe
- M&A Deals Come Roaring Back as Executives Plot Post-Covid Future
- Singapore confirms first case of new coronavirus variant found in UK
- McConnell, GOP Face Double Split With Trump Over Relief, Defense
- Dollar Loses Luster Against Asia's Top Performing Currency of 2020
- New Virus Strain’s Transmissibility to Cause More Deaths: Study
- The Year the Fed Changed Forever
- With Alibaba Investigation, China Gets Tougher on Tech
- UK and EU agree historic Brexit trade deal
- Tett: Central banks are starting to put more value on anecdotal evidence
- US banks rack up $200bn in fines and penalties over 20 years
- Covid crisis opens chasm between hedge fund winners and losers
- How British Scientists Tracked Down the New Covid-19 Variant
- How the U.S. Misread China’s Xi: Hoping for a Globalist, It Got an Autocrat