Notes Today:

• (FT) Facebook allowed ads in the UK that tried to sell cures for Covid-19 including vitamin shots and intravenous drips.

• (Reuters) - Failure by Britain and the European Union to agree a free trade deal would wipe an extra 2% off the United Kingdom’s economic output while driving up inflation, unemployment and public borrowing, official forecasts showed on Wednesday.

• Flynn  pardoned.

• Initial jobless claims rose by 30,000 to 778,000 in the week ended Nov. 21, according to Labor Department data. Not seasonal adjusted it rose by 78,000.

• LONDON (Reuters) - Banks in the European Union will have to use platforms inside the EU to trade derivatives from January, the bloc’s securities watchdog said on Wednesday, in a move that could cut off the City of London, the world’s biggest derivatives trading hub.