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How The Market Is Doing One Year After COVID Hit Idaho

Published: March 18, 2021, 7:43 p.m.

One year ago, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. Soon after that March 2020 event, the stock market plummeted and there were widespread concerns of a recession, or possibly a depression. But it turned out that Wall Street would thrive during the pandemic, bouncing back quickly from the March slump and then rising to an all-time high in February 2021. At the same time millions of people lost their jobs and unemployment remains above 6%.