Hello everyone. Welcome to the Real Vision Daily Briefing. It's Monday, January 4th at 4 PM just after market close here in New York. I'm joined by Mike

Green of Logic at Capital today. Before I talk with Mike, let's kick it over to

Haley for today's stories. Hey Max, happy new year. Investors are gearing up for a turbo charge 2021.

Want evidence? Just look at the price of Bitcoin.

Only a few weeks ago it smashed through that 20,000 mark. This weekend it soared above 30,000

for the first time ever. After setting a new record above 34,000 on Sunday

just yesterday, prices drop sharply to around 27,000 before recovering to

around 31,000 on Monday. But after closing out 2020 with gains of more than 300%, a growing number of traders

searching for yield in a low interest rate environment are giving Bitcoin another look. This hunt for returns and unbridled optimism

about the future isn't just powering Bitcoin's ascent. Investors are bringing that same energy into the 2021 capital markets.

Today we saw however stocks tumbled on the first trading day of the year,

the Dow, S&P 500, and NASDAQ were all down because of this grim pandemic outlook with the

spread of the new COVID-19 variants. Hospitalizations in the U.S. jumped to a record high on Sunday and governments across

Europe are extending lockdowns to try to slow the spread of the virus.

Also traders are jittery ahead of tomorrow's runoff elections in Georgia

in the US which could determine whether Democrats have control of Congress to push

President-elect Joe Biden's agenda.

Among individual stocks, if we look at it a little closer,

Coca-Cola shares fell.

The pandemic will of course continue to limit major public events in early 2021 and dining at restaurants

Potentially hurting demand for products like Coca Cola's beverages. Airline stocks, another group that has been hit

hard by the pandemic, also fell. We saw American Airlines and Delta, both

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