Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious diseases specialist, took issue with a Trump tweet claiming the number of COVID-19 deaths is “fake news.”
U.S. stocks finished higher Thursday, with two major indexes setting new records as investors rung out a tumultuous year that saw equities collapse into a bear market before rebounding to all-time highs.
The equity market wasn’t the main conduit for the response to the pandemic and social unrest that emerged in 2020, but it was one way that Wall Street interpreted the pace of the rapidly spreading contagion and the human ingenuity that rapidly brought about remedies and cures to combat COVID-19.
Oil futures end 2020 on a positive note, but suffer a hefty yearly fall, only partially recovering from the hit to crude demand from the COVID-19 pandemic.