Wall Street and finance workers could get COVID vaccines before most Americans

The American Bankers Association said it has asked for the CDC to designate financial services industry as “essential workers,” following guidelines issued by the Department of Homeland Security.

Some peoples sense of entitlement is just stunning!

Notes Today: 

• Bloomberg: U.K. and EU pause Brexit talks after intensive negotiations fail to resolve key issues, as PM Boris Johnson and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen schedule crisis call..

• A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to restore DACA to its pre-2017 status.

• US Nonfarm Payrolls rose by 245,000 in November vs. 469,000 expected   

• US Factory Orders rose by 1% in October vs. 0.8% expected - the sixth straight monthly gain. 

• The U.S. trade deficit widened 1.7% to $63.1 billion in October. 

• Germany Factory Orders MoM at 2.9%, above forecasts of 1.5% 

• Trump is doing his best to jam in the opening of oil and gas drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.  The sale of leases is planned for 6 January 2021, just ahead of the inauguration of the US president-elect, Joe Biden, who opposes the move.

• Bloomberg: With a vaccine on the way, congressional failure to pass Covid relief now would put millions of jobs and thousands of small businesses at risk.