Edward lawrence will have airline news in a minute. But, lauren, we start with you. Lauren all right. Well the good news today, guys the rally we saw all day held into the close. Look at that, the dow up 1 1 2 . The nasdaq up 2. 1 . I will give you three Major Regions for the rally today, you touched on some of them. All 50 states eased their lockdown restrictions. The fed. We got the minutes. They are discussing ways to provide even more support to the economy. And tech, once again in the drivers seat. Take a look at amazon and facebook shares. They did hit record highs. Did they close at record highs . Facebook, yes that is a record high. Amazon, oh so close. Facebook though, they announced a new on line marketplace that can compete with amazon and others. That is why you see a 13dollar gain for the stock. Dow positive for the month of may. Nasdaq and s p 500, leadership was broad. Again it was in energy, financials and materials. Much of the power behind the rally that we saw on mon
Economic costs of flattening the curve was pretty great. On the other side of that equation, the impact on hospitals was significant in that many of them have been waiting for whatever they needed to do and because we find the curve the worstcase scenarios didnt occur and in most cases they were prevented and we had plenty of hospital beds and before was over with we had ventilators and all those things we will have later but the crisis, because of flattening the curve has certainly lasted longer and will last longer than it would have otherwise. Im not saying that is a bad thing, just measures like closing businesses and sending people home from work, practicing social distancing, putting people on the unemployment rolls have really created Serious Problems for people that have cause to have challenges to their mental wellbeing. The impact is nearly half of the adults in the United States say the coronavirus has impacted their Mental Health on top of the statistic we traditionally bel
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