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But first, the market's in endless turmoil. But first, the markets in endless turmoil.

Last night, the stock market basically vomited all over itself, with the Dow futures falling

5% just four minutes after the open, causing a stoppage.

That was probably because at the time, President Trump was about 20 minutes into his daily

coronavirus press conference,

but hadn't mentioned anything about a deal on the economic stimulus.

This morning, things looked even bleaker, with Democrats and Republicans still unable to

reach consensus, although the Fed then did briefly calm things down a bit by throwing

its version of the kitchen sink, including a first ever toe dip into the corporate

bond market.

The upshot here is that the markets, like the rest of America, are in a volatile crisis,

but unlike the rest of America, they haven't closed down.

There are some who believe stock markets do need to take a breather, just so that investors

can make decisions once they have a better sense of what the pandemic is doing to our

economy and what the federal government plans to do about it. But that doesn't seem likely to

happen anytime soon, with the only substantive change so far being that the New York Stock

Exchange closed its floor, effective today, joining the rest of white-collar industry in working

from home. So should the market stay open? And if so, what kind of activity

are we really going to see there? We'll go deeper on those questions in 20 seconds with Tal Cohen of the

NASDAQ. But first, this. The Equity Fund Resources Group at Bridgebank is a central hub for the

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