US stocks open higher after President Trump extends coronavirus social distancing through April. Global cases of COVID-19 have surged past 735,000 and the death toll continues to rise.
slew of new updates around the coronavirus pandemic.
President Donald Trump on Sunday extended federal social-distancing guidelines to April 30, abandoning earlier hopes that the US economy could reopen by Easter. US stocks rose on Monday as investors digested a slew of new updates around the coronavirus pandemic., casting aside earlier statements he made about easing coronavirus restrictions and re-opening the US economy by April 12. Here's where the major US indexes stood shortly after the market open at 9:30 a.m. E.T.
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