Monday Afternoon Links

[Reuters] S&P 500, Dow tumble from record highs on nerves over Georgia runoff elections

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Gold Rises to Eight-Week High on Dollar Outlook, Real Yields

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Stocks Slump on Virus Spike Before Georgia Runoff: Markets Wrap

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Oil Falls With Equities as OPEC+ Struggles to Agree on Output

[Reuters] UK scientists worry vaccines may not protect against S.African coronavirus variant

[CNBC] Covid live updates: Gottlieb calls for expanding vaccine eligibility as U.S. battles deadly surge

[Reuters] U.S. final manufacturing PMI ends 2020 at six-year high: IHS Markit

[Reuters] Fed's Evans sees long period of accommodative monetary policy

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Day Trader Quickly Put to Test After End-Of-Year Buy Frenzy

[Reuters] Jack Ma's disappearing act fuels speculation about billionaire's whereabouts

[Bloomberg] U.S. Risks Years of Higher Mortality on Covid’s Economic Fallout

[NYT] China Moves to Punish Lawyers Hired to Help Hong Kong Activists

[WSJ] Fed Had a Loan Plan for Midsize Firms Hurt by Covid. It Found Few Takers.

[FT] A moment of grave danger for US democracy

[FT] The pandemic’s darkest hour is yet to come