Nasdaq hits intraday record | Dow jumps 800 points | 2.5 million jobs added
EDITOR'S NOTE
A V-shaped recovery appeared all but off the table just a couple of weeks ago, but the great economic reopening is swinging the lines on the charts upward.
Friday's unemployment report showed the economy actually added 2.5 million jobs - which was better than the 8.3 million payrolls economists had expected it to lose. I was also a lot better than the 20.7 million jobs lost in April.
"Barring a second surge of Covid-19, the overall U.S. economy may have turned a corner," said Tony Bedikian, head of global markets at Citizens Bank, "even though it still remains to be seen exactly what the new normal will look like." If anything looks like a V, it's the stock market, which rallied more than 800 points on Friday.
The Nasdaq became the first of the three major averages to climb back to a record high. The S&P 500 is only down a little more than 1% year to date, having turned up sharply from its March low.
Most astonishing is that all this optimism comes despite an ongoing pandemic, protests and heightened trade tensions with China.
"Sometimes you have to listen to what the market is telling us more than the tone of the news," said Art Hogan, chief market strategist at National Securities.
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