Dow Ends Strong Week on a Sour Note

The markets couldn't manage a four-day rally. Despite the passage in the House of a massive stimulus passage, the major US markets closed very much in the red on Friday, per MarketWatch. The declines gave back some of the gains made in the near-historic three-day surge ending Thursday. On Friday, the Dow fell 915 points, or 4%, to close at 21,636; the S&P 500 fell 88 points, or 3%, to 2,541; and the Nasdaq fell 295 points, nearly 4%, to 7,502. Volatility remained the day's buzzword. "Underlying all this is how do we get this virus under control," Neil Hennessy of Hennessy Funds tells the Wall Street Journal. "Once we have it under control or it peaks, subsides, whatever, then the market will be back on its legs." (More stock market stories.)