Even traders are working from home because of COVID-19

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Marketplace : Even traders are working from home because of COVID-19 Image

Even traders are working from home because of COVID-19

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The floor of the New York Stock Exchange is usually full of people, but on Monday it will move to electronic trading only to combat coronavirus. Today, we talk about how that will work and ask Nasdaq President and CEO Adena Friedman why markets are still open at all. Plus, the state of mental health benefits, economic impacts of the 1918 Spanish flu and a conversation with “World War Z” author Max Brooks.