A group of 10 moderate Republican U.S. senators urged Democratic President Joe Biden on Sunday to reconsider his $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package, saying they wanted a meeting to discuss a compromise that they said could win swift bipartisan support…
Anyway, Biden is able to pass in force this plan… That would not be a positive signal to unify the country. But Covid is running fast and the temporality gap is widening fast bringing its cohort of social and geopolitical tensions…
Brussels faces an international backlash over its new controls on vaccine exports as European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen struggles to quell a firestorm over the EU’s handling of vaccine shortages. Canada and Japan raised concerns over export rules requiring manufacturers to obtain permission before shipping Covid-19 jabs outside the EU. South Korea also warned governments against a grab for more vaccines than they need…
Not good for markets when the Retail Army seems only focused on most shorted stocks. Bear in mind that the Retail Army can trade massive volumes of Puts and leveraged short ETFs…