U.S. stock futures and oil prices fell as coronavirus cases surged and added to worries about the economic outlook      https://t.co/O03fAqkdVh

Fewer major U.S. companies are defaulting on their debt than investors feared just months ago, a boost to corporate bond prices and an encouraging sign for the U.S. economy https://t.co/ax1zr7BzdY

Epidemiologists and infectious-disease specialists say quarantining should be a key part of the Trump administration’s plan to mitigate the virus’s spread among officials and others https://t.co/UgxjYHHeR0

Investors put $581 billion in the cheapest 20% of ETFs and mutual funds last year, while the rest had $224 billion in outflows, Morningstar says https://t.co/I1uzBgxpBe

The Trump administration offered Santa Claus performers a deal: promote a Covid-19 vaccine, and they'd get early access to it. The plan has been called off. https://t.co/QROVVIM4d2

Take an early look at the front page of The Wall Street Journal https://t.co/5xQPDPcm8q https://t.co/0p84nNruDd

NDAs over racial-discrimination complaints are starting to break down: “Employers are realizing that they have to be really careful about restricting these kinds of conversations.” https://t.co/6GlbrcavVC

A new tropical storm called Zeta is forecast to hit the storm-weary U.S. Gulf Coast by the middle of the week https://t.co/yOZONOhPxN

British authorities detained seven stowaways on an oil tanker just a few miles from the English coast, after crew members called for help and locked themselves in the vessel’s safe room https://t.co/X49Agm0PDu

Bayer plans to pay up to $4 billion to acquire U.S. biotech firm Asklepios, as the German company tries to boost its drugs pipeline  https://t.co/pqKS0fBAUN

“I couldn’t bear looking at my face any longer”: Why Botox is all the rage in pandemic-ridden Brazil. https://t.co/pdh0phunle

Joe Biden is running for president on the sort of platform that usually makes business sweat. Yet many business executives and their allies are greeting the prospect of a Biden presidency with either ambivalence or relief. https://t.co/h1KFMAZwCJ

Could Fitbit devices be a Covid-19 game-changer? Its CEO thinks so https://t.co/d9ThyVnDvQ

Following the death of Chairman Lee Kun-hee, South Korean tech giant Samsung still looks stuck in the past, not a business poised for the future   https://t.co/CHZSLXuktX

Barcelona may have forced Messi to stay, but it hasn’t slowed the club’s decline. Barça’s ugly start to the season slumped to a new low with a home defeat against Real Madrid on Saturday. https://t.co/jJsI05z3of

Beware active reviewers: One analysis of reviews on mobile-app stores found that fake reviewers submit 12 times as many reviews as genuine customers https://t.co/FJFNpQnLxL

He tried distance running as a lark after seeing the smiles of people who’d finished a marathon. Now he’s 50, and it turns out he’s brilliant at it. https://t.co/3JdcjcPWdE

"If Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders were the nominee, we’d be having a very different conversation." Business isn't panicking, yet, about Joe Biden. https://t.co/L1lB3ogzBu

Nationalists in China are attacking anyone seen as criticizing the country. “If America or Europeans think they have ‘cancel culture,’ they don’t have a clue.” https://t.co/RMtvUPlZ1J

Pricing an item at $1.99 instead of $2.00 is a common marketing strategy that every consumer will recognize. The question is whether it works. According to new research, it does—sometimes. https://t.co/ZSWDqQtjxY