NewsWatch: ‘We’ve seen the lows in March’ for the stock market, says man who called Dow 20,000 in 2015, ‘and we will never see those lows again

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Jeremy Siegel, says unprecedented support by the Federal Reserve and the U.S. government make it nearly impossible for the U.S. stock market to revert to its late March lows. See full story.

The U.S. economy may be in for a ‘square root’–shaped recovery — and you won’t like it any more than algebra class

A small dead-cat bounce and then lower for longer is what a “square root” implies. See full story.

Great Depression 2020? The unofficial U.S. jobless rate is at least 20%—or worse

The U.S. unemployment rate exploded to 14.7% in April after more than 20 million jobs were lost to the coronavirus, but that is just the official number. The real jobless rate was at least 20%. See full story.

It’s one of the hottest ETFs of the coronavirus era — and the woman who nailed the 2018 stock-market shock created it just a year ago

Nancy Davis, the chief investment officer and founder of advisory firm Quadratic Capital, rolled out a new exchange-traded fund just a year ago, and it has quietly become one of the hottest performers in the epoch of coronavirus that brought much of the financial world to its knees. See full story.

New study claims vitamin D deficiency may impact coronavirus mortality rates

Researchers have discovered a strong correlation between vitamin D deficiency and mortality rates from the novel coronavirus, a new study reveals. See full story.

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Borrowers and lenders will face these 3 new and unfamiliar ways of doing business, writes Sanjiv Das. See full story.