WASHINGTON, Nov 29 (Reuters) - The Trump administration is poised to add China's top chipmaker SMIC and national offshore oil and gas producer CNOOC to a blacklist of alleged Chinese military companies, according to a document and sources, curbing their access to U.S. investors and escalating tensions with Beijing weeks before President-elect Joe Biden takes office.

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Oil prices fell about 1% on Monday amid investor jitters ahead of an OPEC+ meeting to decide whether the producers' group will extend large output cuts to balance global markets.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Joe Biden will receive on Monday his first presidential daily briefing, a report with information from the intelligence agencies of the United States, Biden's office said.

(Reuters) - The National Football League fined the New Orleans Saints and New England Patriots for violating COVID-19 protocols, a league source said on Sunday.

SYDNEY (Reuters) - The dollar fell to a more than two-year low on Monday and is set to log its largest monthly fall since July, as a combination of vaccine optimism and bets on more monetary easing in the United States drives investors out of the world's reserve currency.

* Dollar index hits 31-month trough, kiwi hits 2.5yr high

SYDNEY, Nov 30 (Reuters) - World shares were set to seal a record-busting month on Monday as the prospect of a vaccine-driven global economic recovery next year and yet more free money from central banks eclipsed concerns about the pandemic in the near-term.

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WASHINGTON, Nov 29 (Reuters) - President-elect Joe Biden has picked Brian Deese, a White House advisor during the Obama administration, to head his National Economic Council, the New York Times reported on Sunday, citing three people with knowledge of the matter.