[Yahoo/Bloomberg] U.S. Stocks Rise; Pound Gains on Brexit Deal Hope: Markets Wrap
[Reuters] Brexit deal anticipation fuels stocks and sterling
[CNBC] GOP blocks House Democrats’ attempt to pass $2,000 stimulus checks after Trump voices support
[AP] Trump threatens COVID relief bill, testing loyalty of GOP
[Reuters] ‘Santa Claus rally’ threatened by COVID-19 resurgence, Georgia elections
[Reuters] Youth unemployment: a scourge of the COVID-19 economy
[Reuters] Millions of U.S. vaccine doses sit on ice, putting 2020 goal in doubt
[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Brexit Deal Gets Held Up by Last-Minute Haggling Over Fish
[Yahoo/Bloomberg] China Targets Jack Ma’s Alibaba Empire in Monopoly Probe
[Yahoo/Bloomberg] M&A Deals Come Roaring Back as Executives Plot Post-Covid Future
[Reuters] Singapore confirms first case of new coronavirus variant found in UK
[Bloomberg] McConnell, GOP Face Double Split With Trump Over Relief, Defense
[Bloomberg] Dollar Loses Luster Against Asia’s Top Performing Currency of 2020
[Bloomberg] New Virus Strain’s Transmissibility to Cause More Deaths: Study
[NYT] The Year the Fed Changed Forever
[NYT] With Alibaba Investigation, China Gets Tougher on Tech
[FT] Tett: Central banks are starting to put more value on anecdotal evidence
[FT] US banks rack up $200bn in fines and penalties over 20 years
[FT] Covid crisis opens chasm between hedge fund winners and losers
[WSJ] How British Scientists Tracked Down the New Covid-19 Variant
[WSJ] How the U.S. Misread China’s Xi: Hoping for a Globalist, It Got an Autocrat