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The IMF said that just over 62 percent of the Fund’s lending has gone to 21 hard-hit Latin American countries. The EU medicine regulator moved forward its meeting on approving the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine to December 21. Australia launched a formal appeal to the WTO seeking a review of China’s decision to impose hefty tariffs on Australian barley. 

Condition Updates

A rundown of important global developments in markets, in business, and region-by-region, as well as statistical risk assessments by country and by US state.

Country in Focus: Israel

After three election cycles in less than a year, which led in May 2020 to the formation of a Likud-Blue and White parity government, Israelis may be heading to a fourth election in March 2021 as a result of ongoing political disputes and tensions inside the coalition government. 

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