Welcome to the Jill on Money Coronavirus Market Update. It is Friday, July 17th.

Hey Mark, should we not call it the coronavirus market update?

Should we call it the coronavirus money update?

Because I don't want to talk about markets so much anymore.

It was like we started this with the idea that people were freaking out about the markets.

What do you think?

The Jill on Money, Coronavirus, something update.

Financial update, economic, all right, we'll keep it market for now.

It's nice and easy.

Anyway, this is the program that does attempt to help walk you through these

completely surreal times.

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We had a little bit of a data dump yesterday,

two pieces of information.

We had weekly claims that was sort of a good news bad news. So there

were 1.3 million people who filed for new unemployment benefits in the week ending

July 11th. It was a drop of just 10,000 from the previous week's revised levels.

So that's kind of a bummer. Now, the good news on this is that the number of people who are receiving unemployment benefits

did drop down to 17 million. Okay, that's pretty good. 17.3 million about. That's good. So there's some good news. Wait, I got more bad news because then when I look at the

pandemic unemployment assistance plan which is the plan for those gig workers

remember that they had that extra plan in there and the pandemic emergency unemployment compensation benefits?

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