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President Donald Trump said Thursday that stimulus talks with Democrats have turned productive, following his decision just days earlier to call them off.

Oil prices end higher Thursday as Hurricane Delta forced the shut-in of more than 90% of the Gulf of Mexico’s crude output, while the Saudis reportedly consider postponing OPEC plans to raise output, and a strike in Norway threatens production in the North Sea.

Moncef Slaoui, an immunologist by training and a longtime pharmaceutical executive, is running the Trump administration’s Operation Warp Speed program to spur development of vaccines on the fastest ever timetable.

European health regulator launches a “rolling review” of the coronavirus vaccine being developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, as it did for the competing Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.

European stocks rose on Thursday, as optimism returned to financial markets on signs there might be some stimulus after all for the world’s largest economy.