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Good afternoon fellow investors and welcome to Invest Talk. This is our April

16th 2020 edition of Invest Talk and I hope you all are enjoying this nice fun

volatility that we're having definitely the most interesting market in a decade right since the

financial crisis and there's a lot of opportunities there's a lot of

pitfalls and we are here to help guide you through all of this and the financial disruption caused

by COVID-19 are certainly the most serious crisis since 2008.

And for millions, even more severe.

We had another report today on jobless claims down about 5.5 million so in aggregate between the the last four weeks

basically span of a month lost about 22 million jobs.

Another big question is what happened next? Now is a surge after hours,

optimism around a vaccine. May or Manhattan not happen and I think that's what you're likely to see for a while.

You know, there's hopeful news around some treatment or some vaccine.

And, you know, these are difficult problems to solve, even though we have the best minds of the world

looking at it and trying to solve the medical treatment side of it, there's no guarantee that they actually

come to one.

They've been, they've known about the flu for decades and we still have to adjust for the latest flu strain with the flu shot and you know there's still a lot of challenges with dealing with the flu

which as we know is not as deadly as this especially for older people.

So now the next big question that investors are looking is, when will the country reopen?

And the White House has released some guidelines on that, but I think it'll be in a lot of ways

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