Welcome to the Jill on Money Coronavirus Market Update. It is Thursday, July 16th.

And you know, listen, I woke up yesterday morning and I had the folks at

CBS radio pestering me and asking me like oh do something about can you file

something about the stock market in the futures market and you know every day

that markets go up there is some attempt to make sense of it maybe it went up

because there were early results on a vaccine maybe it went up because there were early results on a vaccine.

Maybe it went up because Goldman Sachs had blowout earnings.

But at the end of the day, I continue to believe that we should not be,

we, the Jill on Money family, should not be we the Jill on Money family should not be focusing so much on these day

to day gyrations and you know I would really really emphasize that the investment markets they're not reflective necessarily

of what's the most important thing in your financial life so that's why we want you to

get in touch with us just send send us an email. Ask Jill at Jill on money.com.

Ask Jill at Jill on money.com. And you know yesterday, Mark, a friend of ours who works at CBS,

reached out to me and asked about allocation of a retirement account and I was laughing because I said, you keep focusing on the investment part and

I keep telling you to save more.

So we're at odds here.

I said, so I'm going to stop answering your questions about allocation until you start saving

more money.

And that was the end of the conversation.

It was great. Okay. We got a follow-up because earlier this week we had a question from Dale about her mother

who was selling her home worth about a million dollars and here's the follow-up.

My mother's in her 80s looking for the safest way to invest a million dollars from the sale of her home,

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