2020-06-08 09:06:37, Concoda, Medium

Content Categorization
/Finance/Investing
/Business & Industrial
/News/Business News

Word Count:
840

Words/Sentence:
16

Reading Time:
5.60 min

Reading Quality:
Adept

Readability:
13th to 15th

Media Sentiment
Proprietary sentiment analysis on both the headline and body text of the article. Sentiment scores range from -1 (very negative sentiment) to 1 (very positive sentiment).
RCS Analysis
Relative scoring for Risk, Crisis, and Security language within the article.
Risk Score
Scoring based on the composite risk, security and crisis language within an article compared to a baseline of historic analysis across thousands of diverse articles.
PESTEL Scope
Analysis of article orientation across the PESTEL macro-environmental analysis framework. Learn more about PESTEL.
Entity Word Cloud
Key people, places, organizations and events referenced in the article, weighted by frequency and colored based on contextual sentiment.
Auto Summary
Condensing key features of the article based on salience analysis. Helpful for “gisting” the article in a time crunch.

The Fed has increased its balance sheet by $4.5 trillion in the past month alone, and the US Treasury has been assisting companies via a $2.3 trillion relief package passed by Congress.

Yet despite insolvency, declining fundamentals, and the U.S. Bankruptcy Code stating that all debts must be repaid before stockholders receive anything, Hertz's share price has risen to levels higher than before they announced bankruptcy.

And despite initial virus fears plunging global stock markets over 35% from mid-February to mid-March, investors have overlooked numerous catalysts for a COVID-19 second wave.

These conditions will not last forever, of course, but while they do, investors embracing insanity will profit and investors clinging onto economic reality will feel the burn.

At the start of 2020, if anyone told you that Hertz, a 102-year-old car rental firm, was going to declare bankruptcy a few months later, you'd probably laugh them out of the room.

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