Companies raised $167.2 billion on U.S. exchanges this year through Dec. 23, compared with the previous record of $107.9 billion at the height of the dot-com boom in 1999.
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U.S. stocks soared after Democrat Joe Biden’s electoral victory and a vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech proved better than expected at protecting people from Covid-19 in a pivotal study.
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Investors betting on additional stimulus and a coronavirus vaccine are pushing more money into riskier assets such as stocks, while easing out of gold.
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