Stocks soar as New York Stock Exchange reopens floor to traders
Posted on AllSides May 26th, 2020
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Stock roared Tuesday coming off the holiday weekend, as the national shutdown continues to unwind, more drug companies chase coronavirus vaccines and the New York Stock Exchange reopened its floor to traders for the first time in two months.
The Dow Jones industrial average shot up nearly 600 points, about 2.3 percent, to push the blue-chip index past the 25,000 threshold. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index was up 57 points, about 1.9 percent, lifting the broader index above 3,000 for the first time since March. The tech-heavy Nasdaq showed...
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