As COVID deaths top 800,000, Omicron and Delta variants threaten another U.S. surge

Biden’s State of the Union rebrands cutting childcare costs as an antidote to inflation

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Bitcoin, stocks and crude take off as the markets brace for a wave of stimulus checks

This is the web version of the Bull Sheet, Fortune’s no-BS daily newsletter on the markets. Sign up to receive it in your inbox here. Good morning. The reflation trade is alive and well, with stimulus talks in the U.S. boosting global equities. That, and a flurry of M&A activity have put investors in a risk-on […]

Republicans Take down $2,000 Stimulation checks despite Trump’s Requirements

The made-for-TV battle arrived since the Democratic-controlled chamber trying to get a pro forma session scheduled in expectation of a sleek Washington landing for its enormous, yearlong legislative bundle, which folds with a $1.4 trillion governmentwide spending together with all an hard-fought COVID-19 bundle and heaps of unrelated although bipartisan bills. Rather, Thursday’s odd 12-minute […]