• Weak Thanksgiving Gasoline Demand Foreshadows Bleak Christmas
  
  A slow Thanksgiving for U.S. gasoline demand is foreshadowing what will likely be a tough holiday season for American fuel makers.
• US Imports of Saudi Crude Fall to Lowest in 3 Decades
  
  American refiners received the least oil from Saudi Arabia since 1985 as a slump in volumes shipped out by the desert kingdom in October are finally reaching U.S. shores.
• Bitcoin Nears $20,000 as Crypto Bulls Ignore Skeptics
  
  Bitcoin's recovery from a rout last week is stoking speculation that the cryptocurrency can breach $20,000 for the first time.
• Biden's Charging Plan Could Sell 25 Million EVs
  
  In a bid to fight climate change and build a stronger, greener economy, Joe Biden is starting with plugs. Specifically, Biden has a plan to install 500,000 electric vehicle charging cords by 2030, roughly a five-fold increase in the nation's EV infrastructure that could cost...
• Bitcoin Makes Hasty Retreat After Failing at $20,000
  
  Bitcoin pulled back after making a run at $20,000 on Tuesday amid skepticism over the cryptocurrency’s intense rally.
• Nasdaq Seeks Mandatory Board Diversity for Listed Companies
  
  The Nasdaq stock exchange is seeking U.S. authority to require more diversity in the boardrooms of Nasdaq-listed companies, or to explain why they can't.
• OPEC Talks on Production Hit Snag as Pandemic Clouds Outlook
  
  The OPEC oil producers' cartel was to push ahead with a new round of discussions Tuesday about how much to pump next year as countries wrestled over whether to extend the production cuts that have been supporting prices depressed by the pandemic.Members adjourned a...
• Gary Cohn: Bitcoin's 'Integrity' Flaws May Lead to Failure
  
  Don't pin your hopes on the Bitcoin boom holding up, according to Gary Cohn, a former economic chief to Donald Trump.
• Biden Plan to End US Fossil Fuel Subsidies Faces Big Challenges
  
  Joe Biden's promise to end U.S. fossil fuel subsidies worth billions of dollars a year for drillers and miners could be hard to keep due to resistance from lawmakers in a narrowly divided Congress, including from within his own party. The challenge reflects just one of the...
• Libor's Final Retirement Date May Get Delayed Until Mid-2023
  
  The administrator of the pivotal dollar Libor benchmarks is looking to push back by 18 months the timeline for abandoning some of the discredited interest-rate settings.The ICE Benchmark Administration Ltd. said it is consulting on plans to extend the retirement date for...
• Bitcoin Surges to All-Time Record $19,864.15
  
  Bitcoin soared to a record high against the dollar on Monday, as its 2020 rally steamed ahead, boosted by increased demand from both institutional and retail investors that saw the virtual currency as a safe-haven and a hedge against inflation.
• Crop Prices Set for Best Month in 5 Years on Supply Fears
  
  Crop prices are rounding out their biggest monthly advance in more than five years on China's buying spree and concerns about South American dry spells.
• Reuters Poll: Oil Faces Uphill Struggle Despite Vaccines
  
  Oil prices will struggle to gain upward traction next year as demand remains in the grip of the coronavirus pandemic despite growing optimism over vaccines and a likely extension of output cuts by top producers, a Reuters poll showed on Monday.
• Dollar Hits New 2-Year Low After Month of Losses
  
  The dollar hit its lowest in two and a half years on Monday while riskier currencies were mixed, as the global equities rally that has seen risk appetite surge in November paused for breath.
• Reuters Poll: Bull Run Market to Last At Least 6 More Months
  
  Global funds made a U-turn this month and recommended the highest equities exposure since February on recent COVID-19 vaccine progress, with a majority predicting the stock market bull run would last more than six months, Reuters polls found.
• OPEC Faces Seismic Demand Split as Cartel Plots Moves
  
  As OPEC+ ministers gather virtually this week, the city that traditionally hosts their meetings will be locked down. Vienna's Christmas markets will be closed, the famous Ringstrasse boulevard silent. For oil ministers, the scene should urge caution.But while the Austrian...
• Goldilocks Year Awaits Emerging Markets Defying Pandemic Rout
  
  Emerging-market investors seem to have everything going for them right now, with the November rally offering a hint of what 2021 may have in store.A plethora of tailwinds from accommodative central banks to an impending change of U.S. president and Covid-19 vaccine progress...
• Goldman, Citi See Gold Topping $2K: 'Bull Market Not Over'
  
  Analysts at Citi and Goldman Sachs predict that the price of gold will continue to charge higher despite the improved global economic outlook following multiple coronavirus vaccine breakthroughs.
• WSJ: Exxon Cuts Oil-Price Outlook for Much of Next Decade
  
  U.S. oil major Exxon has lowered its expectations for oil prices for much of the next decade, the Wall Street Journal reported.
• Farmers Plant More Winter Wheat as Grain Prices Rally
  
  U.S. farmers expanded seedings of winter wheat this autumn for the first time in eight years as strong demand and dry weather in several producing countries fuels higher prices for the grain, farmers and analysts said.
• Bitcoin Believers Think $100,000 Price Is Reality in 2021
  
  Bitcoin investors, which include top hedge funds and money managers, are betting the virtual currency could more than quintuple to as high as $100,000 in a year.
• Regulator Blasts Own Agency's Oil Price Plunge Report
  
  One of the commissioners of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Tuesday criticized as "incomplete and inadequate" the federal agency's report on April's plunge in oil futures deep into negative territory.
• Another Warm Winter Set to Weaken Natural Gas Prices
  
  It's shaping up to be another warm winter, which could be bad news for natural gas prices.
• Bitcoin Close to All-Time High After Topping $19,000
  
  Bitcoin homed in on its all-time high on Tuesday after hitting $19,000 for the first time in nearly three years.
• These AAA-Rated Bonds Plunge on China Default Fears
  
  A string of defaults by Chinese state-owned companies has sent shockwaves across the world's second-largest credit market.

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