No matter how untethered its valuations may be from reality, the bull market in stocks keeps managing to deliver goods to the faithful. For every retrograde price action in 2021 there always seems to be an equal and opposite reaction, keeping the market aloft. This week it was chip stocks  and electric-vehicle makers jumping as an overextended reflation trade took a pause. Up a fourth week in five, the S&P 500 Index hit the 4,000 milestone for the first time. Round and round the stock market goes. Where does it stop? Well, nobody seems to know. —David E. Rovella

Bloomberg is tracking the progress of coronavirus vaccines while mapping the pandemic globally and across America. 

Here are today’s top stories  

Initial U.S. unemployment claims rose last week but remained near the lowest levels of the pandemic. Applications increased to 719,000, up 61,000. The prior week’s figure was revised down to 658,000, bringing the damage done to workers by the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression below the Great Recession’s peak. Just under 10 million Americans, however, remain without work.

While no one was looking and everyone was predicting the opposite, a funny thing happened in the market for fossil fuels: its billionaire barons made a $51 billion killing.

India's Gautam Adani gained $19.4 billion this year. 

Photographer: Hindustan Times/Hindustan Times

What was a vaccine trickle in the U.S. has become a torrent, with age floors falling and more people lining up for shots. But with a fourth infection wave seemingly underway, it may be too late for many Americans as almost 1,000 die each day from Covid-19. In Canada, there’s a new lockdown in Ontario as easily transmitted strains claim younger lives. The good news Thursday was research showing Pfizer-BioNTech shots last at least six months and beat back variants. Here’s the latest on the pandemic.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi signaled support for a move to put a repeal of the $10,000 cap on state and local tax deductions in President Joe Biden's big infrastructure and social-spending bills. Democrats argued the the caps were pushed through in 2017 by Republicans seeking to punish residents of Democratic-leaning states.

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi 

Photographer: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Mortgage companies could face penalties if they don’t take steps to prevent a deluge of foreclosures that threatens to hit the housing market later this year, a U.S. regulator said Thursday.

Commerzbank will post a restructuring charge of 470 million euros ($550 million) in the first quarter for its job-cuts program, adding to about one billion euros of related costs booked previously.

Coinbase Global, the largest U.S. cryptocurrency exchange, said it’s planning to make its trading debut on Nasdaq come April 14.

What you’ll need to know tomorrow 

• Stocks hit a record on big U.S. spending: Here’s the markets wrap.
• Unmade in China: H&M’s CEO has had a really rotten year.
• The inside story on how Bill Hwang blindsided the biggest banks.
• Crypto firms got more money last quarter than in all of 2020.
• Bloomberg Economics: Covid’s long year of financial destruction.
• QuickTake: Why IMF assistance for poor nations will help rich ones.
• Embattled N.Y. Governor Andrew Cuomo has yet another scandal.

What you’ll want to read in Bloomberg Wealth

Where You Should Invest $100,000 Right Now

It’s tough to know what to invest in when your world has been upended. But while many unknowns remain, there are glimmers of a brighter future ahead. Vaccines are going into the arms of citizens around the world, and the $1.9 trillion relief measure rolling out in the U.S. will have huge spillover effects in the global economy. The word “recovery” is on more lips. So with that in mind, for those among you with $100,000 sloshing around in a bank account, here are options you may want to consider.

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