Welcome to the Jill on Money Coronavirus Market Update. It is Wednesday, April 15th, the day that you should have been filing your tax returns, but you don't have to.

It is coming up in your feed on Thursday morning, and as we might have expected, the big news of Wednesday was retail sales, which were terrible.

March retail sales, 8.7% drop from the prior month, 6.2% from a year ago, but here we go. Here's the real issue.

We saw food services and drinking establishments down by 23% from a year ago.

Auto sales down almost 24%. Same with department stores, furniture stores,

gas stations down 18%. The worst sector, clothing and accessories down 50.7%.

The bright spots, grocery stores of, up nearly 30%.

Building materials and garden supplies.

I guess we just need to get out in the garden

because maybe that's a good thing, up 7.6%

from a year ago.

Health and personal care stores up by 4.3 percent.

I think these numbers are just going to keep getting worse and worse for a little bit here.

So hopefully, hopefully we will be able to get the economy back on its feet eventually but right now

listen the news is grim sorry to to say. Okay, so, grim news, that's what I want to be the Grim Reaper, sorry about that, but you guys, I know, have questions,

you have concerns, so let's get to those questions. If you are struggling, even if you're

doing well, I don't care, if you've got a financial or a money question, just send us an

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Victor writes, he's 67 years old and he was a waiter in DC making good money before the pandemic hit.

He writes, I was able to pay credit cards, car payment, mortgages, no problem.

On March 21st, my world collapsed, no job. I decided to file for bankruptcy protection.

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