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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.

The FDA says there were 32 product recalls due to undeclared allergens between October 2019 and November 2020.

A new strain of COVID-19 identified by researchers in the United Kingdom has set off concern about the possibility of a more infectious variant of the coronavirus moving into the U.S. at a time when cases are at all-time highs.