Hey, this is Allison. Before we get started with the show, I have a favor to ask. Yeah, I know, but here's

the thing. The Motley Fool's birthday is coming up, and I was hoping that listeners and members

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This is Brutley Full Answers. I'm Alison Southwick and I am joined as always by Robert the Bro BroCamp.

Hi, bro. How are you doing?

Just fine. And how are you, Allison?

Doing okay. In this week's episode, we're joined by Alice Lomax. She's an analyst here at the Motley Fool and she's going to help explain ESG investing.

That stands for environmental, social, and governance. We're going to find out

how do you analyze a company through this framework and make sure if they're really walking the

talk and do these companies outperform? Let's find out. All that and more on this week's

episode of Motley Fool Answers. So, bro, what's up? Well, guess what, Allison? I got three things for you. Oh, we're back to the three things. It's been a while. The economy must be opening up where nature is returning to normal. Yeah, natural order of things. Here we go. Yes. Okay. But of course, number one, I have to start with that crazy old market. So last week,

we mentioned how the S of E 500 had experienced its best 50-day rally in its history. Good times

continued to roll through the first part of last week, culminating on Wednesday with the

NASDAQ closing above 10,000 for the first time ever. Then came Thursday. On Thursday, stock suffered their

worst one-day sell-off since March 16th, with the Dow dropping more than 1,800 points,

bringing it down 6.9%. S-P-500 dropped 5.9%, NASDAQ down 5.3%, and the Russell 2000 index of small caps down 7.6% all in one day.

Why did stocks drop? Well, if you read the financial media, they said one reason was the

increasing number of coronavirus cases. But I have to say, honestly, I don't know why that's a

surprise, right? Economies are opening up,

testing rates are going up. The virus didn't go away. So, were people expecting cases just to

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