Over 5 . The nasdaq up 367 points as well the russell 2000 small cap outpacing all of its large cap cousins. Now at a level of 1,121. Lets go through our investment economy so far today well start with shannon at bost bost boston private wealth. What has you excited about todays price action its a considerable green day so far. I think this is a response to what happened last week. We saw really a great week in the markets and then last week we traded in sort of this sideways range i think we mentioned on fridays show that the most important data points would be from the virus. Thats not necessarily because its the only data point in time if you think about this week, we have a couple of Economic Data releases were prior to earning season. Thats a bit of a vacuum or void in news right now. This positive news we received over the course of the week about the stemming of the virus as far as infections, icu, hospitalizations, all of that lends it to some stronger sentiment. I think we wil
Peak horn new cases, President Trump signaling america may be past the pandemic peak as lindseys is plans to reopen the country are coming on thursday, were going to be announcing. Guidelines. And well be talking about various states. And its very exciting. Despite the bending of the national curse different sponsor on different timelines los angeles has seen record deaths for a second straight day and is planning on banning concerts and sports until 2021, its difficult to imagine us getting together in the thousands anytime soon in new york, a new executive order for situations where people can maintain social distancing you must wear a mask. Or. For the tract of and nearby massachusetts passed more than 1000 deaths on the same day they mark the 7th anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombing just like were stronger after the marathon in 2013 i will be a strong the city after the coronavirus in 2020 in washington, im karen caifa. The irs released another wave of stimulus checks today a
Globally there are almost 1. 6 million confirmed cases of the coronavirus with the global death toll reaching 95,000. The United States leads the world with more than 460,000 cases and 16,000 reported s. California is now trying to extend extra benefits to Health Care Workers on the front lines of coke and 19 our Capitol Bureau reporter Ashley Zavala explains the governors latest update. California Health Care Workers on the front lines of covid19 now have access to travel vouchers and stipends governor newsome announced thursday the state will reimburse lower wage workers 100 of hotel costs and provide vouchers to others who need to sleep away from home for work so that theyre allowed to stay closer to their patients. And provide them the opportunity not to worry about being out of pocket or worry about exposing their families or god forbid worried about another night sleeping in their car. So they can stay closer to the needs in their communities. The 150 hotels that are part of the
Thought we might be. So is the coronavirus pandemic still as bad as we think well one bay area doctor weighs in on how the situation is improving because of the precautions taken early on and how we continue to move in the right direction for dan thorn reports from on a creek with the story. It appears theres been progress in the bay areas fight against covid19 there has been the possibility of seeing deaths in case is surging but early actions taken by local health officials. Seem to be working we are in a better place that weve not been says social distancing shelter a everything thats been done in our communities to prevent the spread of coronavirus doctor Michael Stacey with Lifelong Medical care says being in this position is obviously a good thing. Our hospitals are not being overwhelmed and testing is getting better. But he says the progress and flatten the curve needs to be viewed in the long game just because its worked so far doesnt mean we can stop this as we shop and. It ca
Morning. Thats because warnings are not being listened to by so many people so after they ignore the warnings what do you do play you start fining people a few of them are in county sheriffs department. They will start issuing fines of 100 starting 1159 last night so its a new law on the books and this will go on for several weeks because they know that a lot of people are ignoring the shelterinplace especially. Given that this sundays Easter Sunday was so many people coming out to parks. Like this one they know that to come out to the parks oftentimes they have to drive and park their cars so there will be many locations where they know people historically park their cars they will put signs out they say no parking and when they do the enforcement they will issue a ticket a 100 theyve been trying to do this marty for the past week or so, but there have been warnings and thousands of tickets have been written warning tickets and theyre done with adam that mayor the governor Governor Ne