After 150 days of the COVID-19 pandemic, here are the best- and worst-performing stocks

[turbinetree]

Last Friday was the 150th day since the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a pandemic. During that period of unprecedented volatility, stocks extended gains.

The S&P 500 Index US:SPX rose 16.3%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average US JIA was up 9.7%, the Nasdaq Composite Index US:COMP jumped 32% and the Nasdaq-100 Index US:NDX added 33.1%.

The best and worst performers in those indexes are listed below.


https://www.marketwatch.com/story/after-150-days-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-here-are-the-best--and-worst-performing-stocks-2020-08-10?mod=home-page

And then there are over 160,000 deaths, over 4 million confirmed cases and rising, and kids are being sent into schools being tested like they are lab rats and then they go back home..............

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142557611


again explain to me this is good news bad news thing..............

[Laelth]

1. Fascinating.

A careful examination of the numbers shows very little volatility. Those that lost only lost a little. Those that gained only gained a little.

The markets’ collective response to a global pandemic, 160,000+ American deaths, massive unemployment, the risk of millions of immanent evictions, a lunatic in the White House, and general, national malaise is ...

MEH.

-Laelth

[turbinetree]

3. Yeah it's like................. so what, no big deal................

[Raster]

2. The stock markets are NOT an indicator of how the country is doing...

... they are an indication of how the top 1% are doing.

[cbdo2007]

4. Wow Xerox -41% - I guess with no office space needed

you need less copiers and stuff.

[Dial H For Hero]

5. The firearms company Sturm, Ruger & Co.(largest in the nation) is up 112% since March.