Is the Christmas sale coming? Will the epidemic continue to worsen after the loss of UK exchanges?

Why are you still not happy that Santa Claus will issue discount cards to new couples in advance? With news of the TIMING of the OUTBREAK in the UK, global assets are once again being put to the test.

European stocks fell across the board on Monday, with the Pan-European Stoxx 600 index falling as much as 3.6% before closing down 2.33% at 386.69, its lowest close since Nov. 13. Germany's DAX 30 index fell 2.82% to 13,246.30. France's CAC 40 index fell 2.43% to 5393.34.

New York (AP) -- Stocks rebounded from Monday's low open as a new stimulus package approved by Congress offset some of the negative effects of the U.K. mutated virus. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 37.40 points, or 0.12%, at 30216.45. The S&P 500 fell 0.39% to 3694.92. The NASDAQ lost 0.10% to 12742.52. But the VIX, a 'fear gauge' of U.S. stock volatility, rose nearly 46% during the session and closed up nearly 17%.

International oil prices tumbled more than 6 percent as investors worried about the impact on fuel demand, with THE front-month WTI contract down 2.8 percent at $47.74 and the front-month Brent contract down 3.5 percent at $50.41 a barrel

The U.K. exchange's hot wallet fell, and the encrypted exchange EXMO was hacked, losing an estimated $10.5 million. The exchange said On December 22 that hackers had extracted about 5 percent of EXMO's "hot wallet" but did not disclose how much they had lost. Research analysts estimate it is worth about $10.5 million.

The exchange provided a list of the types of stolen cryptocurrencies and their addresses, including six coins, including Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH), XRP (XRP) and Zcash (ZEC). EXMO said it was still investigating the incident and asked other exchanges to block all accounts linked to the affected wallets. The exchange further said that the exchange would cover users affected by the event.

According to incomplete statistics, 85% of the exchanges keep users' private keys, and only 15% let users control the private keys themselves (decentralized exchanges). It is for this reason that exchanges have become the focus of hacking attacks.