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NY Stock Exchange reopens as US closes in on 100,000 dead

by Associated Press
| May 26, 2020 10:03 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — The trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange reopened Tuesday in a largely symbolic step toward economic recovery, and stocks surged, even as the official U.S. death toll from the coronavirus closed in on 100,000, a mark President Donald Trump once predicted the country would never see.

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