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Last month, the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit a record not seen since January of 1987. The year also saw another record for the Dow. On this day, the average had its _______ day in history.
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Stock futures were steady this morning as investors anticipated a potential bipartisan stimulus bill.
This morning the Labor Department shared the latest jobless claims report. Economists had anticipated the number to come in around 780,000. The new data comes just before the November look at employment, released tomorrow.
And yesterday’s data on jobs added to the private sector for November was a lot lower than anticipated.
Though Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell shot down the $908 billion virus relief package, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer are standing behind it.
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Though there has been consistent, positive news on the vaccine front, the number of virus infections has continued to surge, and now the U.S. has hit a new, grim milestone.
There are more than 100,000 Americans in the hospital with the virus, according to data compiled by journalists at The Atlantic.
“I don’t think we’ve ever seen this number,” said the chief health care officer for the association of American Medical Colleges. “We certainly never saw this number with HIV or any of the other new diseases that we’ve had. It’s an astonishing, astonishing number and the shame of it is it’s a number that we could have impacted and we didn’t.”
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