Consumer prices around the U.S. rise at fastest rate since 2008

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Consumer prices rose in the U.S. at the fastest rate last month since the Great Recession, firing up concerns from Wall Street to Washington about inflation and its potential damage to investor portfolios and American pocketbooks. The Consumer Price Index, … Read More

Dow surges over 900 points amid coronavirus vaccine progress as lockdowns ease

Drugmaker Moderna received positive coronavirus trial results U.S. equity markets soared Monday after drugmaker Moderna announced progress toward a COVID-19 vaccine and as lockdowns continued to ease nationwide. Ticker Security Last Change Change % I:DJI DOW JONES AVERAGES 24597.37 +911.95 +3.85% SP500 S&P 500 2953.91 +90.21 +3.15% … Read More

Despite The Fear Mongering, We Will Overcome The Coronavirus

(Photo by Imgorthand/Getty Images) – GETTY Things are looking bleak. The media rattles off an alarming increase in the numbers of the people who have contracted and died from the Coronavirus. The press offers macabre minute-by-minute updates of the ever-increasing casualties. The … Read More

Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong – 13 March 2020

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Greetings from Tyler, If you thought you were going somewhere to do something, forget it.  In the continuing strategy of never letting a crisis go to waste, it seems that there’s no point in waiting to see the extent of … Read More

S&P 500 plunges 7% in minutes, trading halted marketwide as financial contagion worsens

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The US stock market plunged as much as 7% immediately after regular trading began on Monday, prompting the first halt since the depths of the financial crisis in December 2008. The losses came amid a raging global oil-price war and … Read More

Dow, S&P and Nasdaq score biggest point gains ever as stocks make coronavirus comeback

Stocks registered a robust rebound after the worst week since the financial crisis U.S. equity markets surged Monday as Wall Street rebounded from its worst week since the financial crisis and has President Trump and U.S. health officials made more progress in … Read More