Yeah. Seems the government is finally all hands on deck here, which at least gives confidence that they are taking this thing seriously finally. Lots of shorts covering as well.
With drastic increase in testing, you will obviously see drastic increase in cases which makes me wonder how the market reacts with this news.
We're looking at about 2,100 cases in the US, with about 40 deaths, so the mortality rate has decreased significantly and is currently under 2% domestically.
I wonder what the reaction is if we come in on Monday or Tuesday and there are say 15,000 cases in the US. I mean that's a huge increase but obviously more testing = more cases. And of course the mortality rate will still be lowered, but I think the focus will be on a possible overrunning of the health care system
Again, until we get some really good news like a timeline to a vaccine or else significant decreases if the weather warms, it's going to be up/down/down/up, repeat. The swings are simply massive though which is super concerning.
Oh, and I read this was the biggest up day since 2008....which was 4 months prior to the market bottoming at a 29% decline from that high.