The Daily Chase: Stocks slide on new virus strain; Apollo raises Great Canadian Gaming bid
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TOP STORY: Global stocks and oil prices are sliding this morning as a rapidly-spreading new strain of COVID-19 in the United Kingdom overwhelms vaccine optimism â including U.S. emergency use authorization for Modernaâs product. Canada has joined the ranks of countries shutting its airspace to flights from the U.K. (with direct consequences for Air Canada and WestJet, it should be noted) as countries race to gather data on the mutation. Fear of the unknown is sending traders back to the perceived safety of the U.S. dollar, which is rallying against all its major counterparts â including the Canadian dollar, which at one point was down more than a full cent against the USD.
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