1) Biden said he’ll forgive $10,000 in student debt for all borrowers. Will it actually happen? During his campaign, Biden advocated forgiving a large portion of outstanding student loan debt. Now that Biden is the President-elect, the 42 million Americans with education loans may be wondering, will it really happen? Biden’s proposal is a scaled-down version of plans that his rivals to the left in the Democratic primary campaigned on. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, wants to cancel up to $50,000 in student debt for individuals with household incomes under $100,000, while Sen. Bernie Sanders, said he’d erase all of the country’s outstanding education debt.
2) The European Union will impose tariffs on $4 billion dollars of U.S. goods starting Tuesday. This is a tit-for-tat escalation of a transatlantic fight over illegal aid to aircraft manufacturers Boeing Co. and Airbus. The EU tariffs will be on various Boeing models of airliners with a 15% duty, as well as other goods ranging from spirits and nuts to tractors and video games, which will be subject to a 25% levy. The move comes at an awkward moment for the EU, which is contending with a surge of Covid-19 cases and its worsening recession. For the last 13 months, the EU has faced U.S. tariffs on $7.5 billion dollars of European goods after Washington won a WTO (World Trade Organization) case against market-distorting aid. In a parallel lawsuit, the EU received final WTO permission to hit $4 billion dollars of American products with duties because of unfair subsidies to Boeing.
3) EU (European Union) regulators announced antitrust charges against Amazon. The European Commission considers Amazon’s collection of non-public data on its platform is then used to benefit its own retail business because sales of third-party retailers is then used to launch Amazon’s own products and undercut its competition. This complaint is one of the most common charges against Amazon as an anti-competitive outfit. About 2.3 million third-party sellers do business on the Amazon marketplace. The EU also has a second formal investigation which has officially been opened.
4) Stock market closings for – 11 NOV 20:
Dow 29,397.63 down by 23.29
Nasdaq 11,786.43 up by 232.58
S&P 500 3,572.66 up by 27.13
10 Year Yield: down at 0.96%
Oil: down at$41.62