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How the stock market seems vaccinated against the virus

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A man sits on the Wall Street bull near the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on November 24, 2020 in New York City. As investors' fear of an election crisis eases, the Dow Jones Industrial Average passed the 30,000 milestone for the first time on Tuesday morning.

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The market is up on a lot of assumptions about the presidential transition, Biden presidency and vaccine rollouts

“All of those things were points of concern when you look back to three weeks ago, and all of them seem to have had news coming out that leads to confidence in the future of business in the United States. That bolsters market prices,” said Susan Schmidt, head of U.S. equities at Aviva Investors.

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