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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.

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.

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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Wall Street on Thursday is looking forward to a farewell to a pandemic-stricken year in the last trading day in 2020.

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Union leaders formally signed on Wednesday the trade treaty they concluded last week after 10 months of tough negotiations.

Ahead of Georgia’s two Senate runoff elections on Tuesday, betting markets are signaling some confidence in the Republican Party’s prospects, while polls give a slight advantage to Democrats.

U.S. stocks were little changed Thursday, with major indexes trading near records as investors ring out a tumultuous year that saw equities collapse into a bear market before rebounding to all-time highs.

“We’ve got enough of this vaccine on order to vaccinate the whole population — 100 million doses,” said the U.K.’s health secretary, Matt Hancock, on Wednesday.

Boston University and Brown University economists who looked at what happens when people have time to mull over a financial windfall.

‘States are going to be looking for ways to shore up revenue at a time where there’s likely many revenue shortfalls.’