Thursday’s Personal Finance Stories.
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.
The U.K. National Health Service has pushed back the window for people to receive the second dose of the coronavirus vaccine made by Pfizer and BioNTech — to a duration the companies tested on only a small percentage of patients.
U.S. Treasury yields see modest moves on Thursday to close out the final trading session of a year marked by a global viral epidemic and extraordinary fiscal and monetary policy.
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President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris are planning to return to Georgia to continue supporting Democratic Senate candidates Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock before Tuesday's crucial runoff elections.
"The threat of antitrust enforcement is almost as effective as enforcement," says Matthew Cowan, a general partner at venture-capital firm Next47.
European stocks declined on Thursday, dragged down by a 1.7% fall of the FTSE 100 index a few hours before the U.K. leaves the EU's single market and customs unions.
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