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The loosely defined investing benchmark has tremendous psychological weight and can make a real difference in a consumer’s financial plans.

The DOW closed down 66 points Tuesday, after being down more than 800 that morning.

SALEM, Va. – An economics expert from Roanoke College said that President Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis likely won’t impact the stock market unless his health takes a turn for the worse. Dr. Alice Kassens, the John S. Shannon Professor of Economics at Roanoke College, said the stock market typically only takes a hit when there is uncertainty. Since Trump has reported experiencing mild symptoms, Kassens doesn’t think there will be a downturn. “If he’s still operating pretty much as normal, it’s not really going to impact the runnings of the nation. Kassens added that the stock market has made a surprising and strong recovery since the beginning of the pandemic.

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"Most patients have reported a history of using e-cigarette products containing THC. The increase in cases from last week represents new cases and recent reporting of previously identified cases. The disease is impacting mostly men, and all reported cases have a history of e-cigarette or vaping use, health officials said. Public health officials, in the meantime, are urging consumers not to use e-cigarettes or other vaping products. The CDC also recommends not using vaping products off the street and not adding substances to products that are not intended by the manufacturer.

The automaker cut health-care coverage for union members last week, moving them to more expensive, temporary COBRA plans on Sept. 16, the first day of the strike. GM said it was reinstating the coverage after realizing its change caused "significant confusion" among employees, according to a letter received by the UAW on Thursday. Some employees were unsure whether they had health benefits at all, according to interviews with workers and other media reports. "GM is very concerned about the significant confusion caused around our employee's health care coverage," Scott Sandefur, GM North America vice president of labor relations, wrote in the letter to UAW Vice President Terry Dittes. It's unclear how much, if any, the reinstatement of the health-care benefits will impact negotiations, which Wednesday progressed to the "Main Table" of top-level negotiators.

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In this Monday, April 16, 2018 file photo, people stand in front of damaged buildings, in the town of Douma, the site of a suspected chemical weapons attack, near Damascus, Syria. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Thursday that the United States concluded the government of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria used chlorine as a chemical weapon in an attack in May during a battle with insurgents in Idlib. "Today I am announcing that the United States has concluded that the Assad regime used chlorine as a chemical weapon on May 19," Pompeo said. The Trump administration has twice bombed Syria over Assad's suspected use of chemical weapons in April 2017 and April 2018. "This is different in some sense because it was chlorine... but know that President Trump has been pretty vigorous in protecting the world from the use of chemical weapons," Pompeo said, said declining to say what the U.S. response could be.

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It's a brutal trading day on Wall Street after the Dow dropped nearly 500 points, fueled by falling oil prices. CBS News correspondent Marlie Hall was on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange and joined CBSN with more details, as well as insight from a trader.

Is the stock market ripe for a fall? Although stocks remain frisky, some experts think financial markets are overdue for a correction. CBS MoneyWatch contributor Anthony Mirhaydari assesses the greatest risks facing investors.

The U.S. stock market is rigged by some of the biggest financial players out there, says author Michael Lewis. Watch Steve Kroft's full report "Rigged."