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COVID-19

Market reactions to COVID-19: Stocks end the week in decline

by Janet Nguyen

May 1, 2020

The Dow falls more than 622 points.

A view of Amazon workers at Amazon's Staten Island warehouse holding a strike in March, calling for the facility be shut down and cleaned after one staffer tested positive for the coronavirus. Employees are also taking part in a nationwide strike this Friday, in protest of better working conditions.

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