August 5, 2020

Good afternoon, this market update is brought to you by the Greenberg Financial Group:

Stocks rose today as investors considered a wave of updates around companies’ coronavirus vaccine development and distribution plans, alongside a bunch of stronger than expected corporate earnings results.

Dow Jones +373 @27,201

S&P 500 +21 @3,327

NASDAQ +57 @10,998

The 10 Year Treasury closed up 3 basis points yielding 0.54%

Oil prices closed up $0.45 ending at $42.12 a barrel

Gold prices closed up $31.70 ending at $2,052 an ounce

The days’ stock news:

Shares of Match Group surged more than 12% after the online dating company posted quarterly results that beat expectations and issued an optimistic direction.
Disney closed up more than 8% after its fiscal third quarter report showed strong growth for its streaming services.

Reporting from the Greenberg Financial Group, where your Money matters, this is Stephanie Ford on KNST.

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