Description: What’s up with this crazy stock market anyway? Apple, Tesla, Zoom and their ilk have been going nuts, driving the Nasdaq and S&P 500 to record highs—and greatly enriching the billionaire class—(only to drop precipitously late this week.) All this while the economy is in recession and millions are unemployed—some even unable to put food on the table.

Source: Finance.Yahoo.com

Date: Sep 05, 2020

Link: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/stock-market-and-the-economy-actually-arent-disconnected-114621662.html

Questions for discussion:

• What is actually happening to indexes and why?
• How connected are the markets and the economy?
• Given this analysis, what would you advise investors?