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Hello and welcome to today's COVID and Markets podcast.

Brought to you by Dividing Cafe of the Bonson Group is David Bonson and market is closed now on Thursday, June 25th,

and I am going to give you the whole rundown today more than any addition to COVID of

markets I have done since this whole pandemic began and we began this daily offering.

I will advise those who listen to the podcast to please check out

thecovertomarkets.com as I'm pretty sure it's a record set today for the most charts.

And since the charts are not available in the podcast, I think you'll get more out of it

to see it in the written form and daily commentary at covenomarkets.com.

Now with that said, let me jump into it and give you kind of the rundown of the day.

It's been a pretty exciting day.

Futures last night, remember the market was down about 700 points yesterday.

We're inundated right now for reports of, you know, ongoing

case of growth in, particularly in a few states. And so a lot of health questions and then

some various factors bleeding into the markets. Last night, futures were pretty flat from about 3 p.m. when the futures

opened Pacific time till 9 p.m. or so when I quit looking. At 3 a.m. this morning, they were

still flat, but then throughout the morning going into the market open they moved a tad lower and didn't crash

or anything but just were kind of giving up ground going negative after the market open the

Dow got down as much as 200 points and then it really gyrated around most of the day up and down

up and down it was pretty you know just kind of intraday volatile,

up 50, down 70, things like that. And then all of a sudden the final hour of trading, it went up

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