DAX trades to a fresh record high to start European morning trade
That is keeping the risk mood tilted towards the optimistic side in the final trading week with equities gaining and bonds slumping.

Gove building up further optimism going into the new year
The UK is widely expected to approve the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine in the coming days, with the rollout then set to begin in the first week of January. The announcement is expected some time this week, as early as tomorrow so watch out for that.

Spain says around 70% of the population will be immunised by next summer
The Spanish vaccination program began yesterday, with the rollout of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. Some 4.5 million doses will be delivered to Spain over the next 12 weeks, with the government having then said that they expect 15-20 million people to have been vaccinated