Peter Wells

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[Peter Wells @_PeterWells]

The US reported back-to-back days of more than 70,000 coronavirus cases on Friday, while Texas became the fourth state to top 300,000 total infections.
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The number of new US coronavirus cases topped 50,000 for the first time ever on Wednesday, propelled by record one-day jumps for states including California, Texas, Arizona and Georgia.
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US Open ... but closed 🎾
This year's tournament will go ahead from Aug 31 to Sep 13 as previously announced, but will be held without fans in the stadium.

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Even in a time of national crisis @apple appears unwilling to deviate from its design principles. Not sure if the all-white boarding was the wisest or wokest colour choice at the moment, though. #BlackLivesMatter #NYC #UpperWhiteSide

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This is a whisper in a gale, but thank you to the kind #NYC citizen who posted back a bank cheque I lost in Central Park near The Met on Saturday. Understandable why one wouldn’t leave contact details, but would have bought you a takeout meal or coffee to say thanks. Stay well 🗽

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The US's coronavirus death toll has topped 100,000, according to Johns Hopkins University.
That is the world's highest tally, and exceeds the combined totals of the UK, Italy and France, the next-hardest hit countries.

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New York’s statewide lockdown ended 24hrs ago. Good to see people are now free to:
- throw out Christmas trees
- simultaneously walk the extremes of the dog spectrum
- choose between catching rabies or coronavirus by ‘gramming a daytime raccoon sans facemask

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... aaand scene!
#WTI settles at minus $37.63 a barrel - first time it has ever traded in negative territory - equating to a 306% drop from Friday's close.

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In honour of #420day, #WTI has decided to get absolutely smoked and head for its biggest one-day drop on record.
Might be hard to tell if your eyes are bloodshot, but that's US crude down as much as 77.9% at a historic low of $4.04 a barrel.

https://t.co/vLh9pqCBkd

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US becomes first country where coronavirus death toll exceeds 20,000, overtaking Italy, h/t Johns Hopkins.

New deaths over the past 24hrs were 1,851, h/t Covid Tracking Project. That's the lowest rise in 5 days and from a record 2,064 y'day. #Hope

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S&P 500 closed 7% higher on hopes the spread of coronavirus is slowing in a number of global hotspots.
That is its third-biggest one-day gain of the year and its eighth-biggest since the end of the second world war

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Brent crude leaps 21% for bigly-est one-day rise on record after Trump spurs hopes for Russia-Saudi pact.

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#ConchForCoronavirus NYC

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S&P 500 down 20% over the first three months of the year. That is its biggest quarterly drop since the financial crisis and among its worst since the second world war.

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For those playing at home - which is basically the bloody lot of you - the S&P 500 jumped 9.38% on March 24 for its 10th biggest one-day rise on record.

https://t.co/4kAQGDfdJf

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@PatrickMcGee_ @FT Argh, I'm going to have to own up to this Patrick, but I mucked up my numbers. The weekly drop is 15% and it's the fifth-biggest weekly drop on record. Apologies.

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S&P 500 closed 0.5% higher on Thursday, the first time in 14 sessions it ended with a move less than 1%.
Its intraday trading range topped 6%, though, continuing a run of stomach-churning sessions for investors.

https://t.co/wL2pHgAiZR

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S&P 500, March 12: "Biggest drop since Black Monday."

S&P 500, March 16: "Hold my beer."

The benchmark plunged 12% for its 3rd-biggest one-day drop on record, eclipsing last Thursday's tumble. Vix at a record.
We're not in Kansas anymore.

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The S&P 500 surged 9.5% on Friday, its biggest one-day gain since 2008. That trimmed declines since the Feb 19 peak to a shade under 20% and cut the weekly drop to -8.8%. This was still one of its worst weeks since the end of WW2.

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The S&P 500 took just 16 sessions to close more than 20% from its February 19 peak, the quickest fall into a bear market on record.

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