Weve had 18 midterms since world war ii oneyear later every single time stocks have been higher, on average by 17 if you look from the yearly low the year earlier, they are up averaging about 32 . Well see what happens today and then over the next 12 months lets look at what happened overnight in asia. The nikkei ended up by 1. 1 . Hang seng was higher shanghai was down by a quarter of a percentage point. If you look at whats happening now in europe, right now red arrows across the board. Mostly fairly modest declines. Italy and spain both down. Spain is down by close to 1 treasury yields, look and youll see the tenyear now is yielding 3. 193 crude oil prices, which settled down barely yesterday, settled at 63. 10, the lowest settlement in seven months. This morning down 22 cents to 62. 88 even as those actions on iran were imposed. Something is happening today, a little thing called the midterms we dont need to introduce him he needs no introduction eamon javers is in the house on the
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