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Tesla shares have exploded for a gain of nearly 700% this year, having gotten a recent boost from joining the S&P 500. But a blockbuster 2020 is merely another chapter in the stock’s volatile journey to eye-popping returns.

The final day of early voting in the runoff elections for the two U.S. Senate seats in Georgia is fast approaching, and the incumbent Republican David Perdue is leading in one race and the Democratic challenger Rev. Raphael Warnock is ahead in the other, according to a recent Insider Advantage/Fox 5 Atlanta poll.

Thursday’s Personal Finance Stories.

Crude-oil futures settle slightly higher Thursday amid light-trading volumes in the last trading session before Christmas, with investors watching whether a U.S. fiscal package will be signed into law by President Trump.

Long-dated U.S. Treasury rates on Thursday fell and prices gained some in thin trading, but government debt yields registered meager weekly moves in a holiday-shortened session and week.

Let’s talk about emergency funds.

The NBA All-Star Blake Griffin has scored a mansion in L.A.’s Brentwood neighborhood for $5,876,000. Ron Smith and David Berg of Smith & Berg Partners at Compass represented Griffin in the transaction. Jordana Leigh with Rodeo Realty represented the seller.

Many programs keeping struggling Americans afloat, including unemployment benefits for gig workers, are due to end soon.

Square Inc. has expressed interest in buying Tidal, Jay-Z’s streaming music service, Bloomberg News reported late Wednesday.

Wednesday’s top personal finance stories

Wall Street is looking forward to happy holidays and a farewell to a pandemic-stricken 2020 and an embrace of a new year, with the last two weeks in December representing abbreviated sessions.

‘I am an Upper East Side wife and mother with two children. I realize I am very fortunate.’

‘With a second round of stimulus checks of $600 announced by Congress on Sunday, will the Internal Revenue Service give me a check based on my 2019 return?’

‘I also know people who made over $100,000 in 2019, but can’t get a stimulus because of their 2019 tax return’

U.S. Treasury yields are slightly higher Wednesday morning as investors eye President Donald Trump’s comments that he wanted to revise the pandemic relief package.

Crude-oil futures were edging slightly higher on Wednesday, with the commodity attempting to recover from a weekly slide induced by concerns that a fast-spreading variant of the coronavirus would lead to tighter global lockdowns, hobbling energy demand.

Analysts say the deal will open doors to new commercial and international business.