The 2020 Republican National convenon. Good evening, im judy woodruf and welcome to our special pbs newshour live coverage of the repu National Convention. This years political conventions are like none any us can remember. Welong with thousands of others have planned to be in thcharlotte, north carolin week. But because of the pandemic, this gathering will be almost entirely virtual. Speakers w are the thethe republicans am im here in the studio with amy walter and amna that. Warner right around the corner. Both df them sociallytant. We have reporters and analysts across the country. We plan to bring you the same depth of coverage and analysis ering this critical time in an historction year. This week President Trump will years. He case for another four and we will be here to hear all of it. Lets turn first to our newshour reporters am that nawaz as i say is in thstudio just around the corner from me to give us a guide on whato expect and key moments to look out for. Hi judy, like the
Talk about a uturn, we had a swing from high to low, 875 points on the Dow Jones Industrial average and it closed at about 160. The nasdaq at one point down 582 and at the close the nasdaq is off of about 140 points. It is down maybe 702 days which is pretty intense and you can finally see the s p 500 down not even 8 or 28 points. Why the selloff, why the rally back, as for the cello question the wall street journal was reporting a jump in trading volumes and options that are linked to Technology Companies and as for the uturn major rent from the record that we had on wednesday and that mightve been overdone with that technology. Delete they come back mainly apple, it was down over 8 at the lot but in did hire a bit and it averted a threeday losing streak, other tech names, the work from home stuff, they did continue to get humbled suggesting that investors are betting on the economy reopening a little bit. Look at that down about 5 tod today, with the economy reopening you have airlin
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