The US markets ended higher on Friday as investors scooped up technology shares and picked over beleaguered financials-bullish signs after the week started with a historic fall in oil prices to unprecedented negative levels. Tenuous signs of stability in the price of oil, have provided some support for equities, but doubts about the severity of the economic recession unfolding due to the COVID-19 pandemic leave investors worried about the durability of recent crude gains.
Investors also were encouraged by President Trump signing into law the much-awaited $484 billion coronavirus aid package that includes a second round of funding for small businesses under the Paycheck Protection Plan (PPP). The measure contains another $320 billion to help small businesses. It also has about $75 billion for hospitals, $25 billion for coronavirus testing and $60 billion for the Small Business Administration’s Economic Injury Disaster Loan program.
Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 260.01 points or 1.11 percent to 23,775.27, Nasdaq rose 139.77 points 1.65 percent to 8,634.52 and S&P 500 was up by 38.94 points or 1.39 percent to 2,836.74.
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