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This is Motleyful Answers. I'm Alison Southwick and I'm joined as always by Robert Brokamp,

personal finance expert here at The Motley Fool. Hello, Robert. Hello, Alison. Joining us this

week is Dan Klein. He's going to talk about which companies are least likely to survive the financial

fallout from the coronavirus and Bro recounts yet another painful and

baffling week in the global economy and stock market. All that and more on this week's

episode of Molly Flancers. So, bro, what's up? The stock market, of course. It doesn't make any sense.

Well, let's review what happened during the first week of May, ending on May 8th.

So the S&P 500 was up 3.5% for the week.

So at this point, it's only down 9.3% for the year.

Nasdaq, even better, up 6% for the week.

That puts it in positive territory for the year.

So during one of the worst economic downturns ever, the NASDAQ is up almost 2%. Small caps also had a good week, 5.7%, but they're still down 16% for the year.

International stocks up 3%, but down 18% for the year. And boring old bonds are down slightly last week,

but up 5% for the year. So if you're looking at your portfolio, it's mostly all good news.

The bad news from last week came from the monthly employment report. So we've been talking

every week about job losses. Those are actually

figures of the number of Americans filing for unemployment with the states. But last Friday,

the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, otherwise known as the BLS, announced the official employment

numbers for April. And these figures are based on surveys of tens of thousands of households and

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