Be in the know. 20 key reads for Monday…

  1. What’s in the $900 billion U.S. COVID-19 aid package? (Reuters)
  2. Bank Stocks Are Going To Be Higher Next Year, Expert Says (Barron’s)
  3. Lockheed Buys Aerojet Rocketdyne (Barron’s)
  4. Experts expect vaccines to protect against the UK’s fast-spreading Covid strain (CNBC)
  5. Are COVID-19 vaccines effective against new coronavirus strain? Here’s what we know (cnbctv18)
  6. Why You Shouldn’t Freak Out About the New Strain of Coronavirus (healthline)
  7. What is the new Covid strain – and will vaccines work against it? (The Guardian)
  8. Mutant Meltdown. The Energy Report 12/21/2020 (Phil Flynn)
  9. A new COVID-19 strain is sending stocks plunging, but here’s why investors shouldn’t panic, says this analyst (MarketWatch)
  10. Philip Morris’ Next CEO Says Investors Are Underestimating the Company’s Smoke-Free Future (Barron’s)
  11. How a weaker dollar could help fuel a commodities boom in 2021 (MarketWatch)
  12. The Fed Says Banks Can Buy Back Stock Again. (Barron’s)
  13. The Antitrust Case Against Big Tech, Shaped by Tech Industry Exiles (New York Times)
  14. Congress Reaches Final Agreement on Pandemic Relief (Wall Street Journal)
  15. Alacazoom! Magic Acts Disappear from Theaters, Reappear Online (Wall Street Journal)
  16. Affluent Families Ditch Public Schools (Bloomberg)
  17. Regeneron (REGN) Reports Publication of Initial Clinical Data from Ongoing Ph. 1/2/3 Trial of Antibody Cocktail Casirivimab & Imdevimab in Non-Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19 (Street Insider)
  18. Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) Initiates Administration of Pfizer’s (PFE) COVID-19 Vaccine in Long-Term Care Facilities (Street Insider)
  19. Diamondback Energy to Buy QEP and Guidon for Combined $3 Billion (Yahoo! Finance)
  20. China rethinks the Jack Ma model (Financial Times)