Yields, even fiveyear yields at the highest level for more than a month. We are looking ahead to a few fed president s who will be speaking later today. The picture where policy will be in the months and days ahead. Seems like there is some optimism on some kind of stimulus. You can also argue that investors are looking past what happens in congress are looking more towards what happens for this election right now because the polls into a suggest, are in favor of biden. Not sure this price president ial debate will change the dynamics of that but certainly we are seeing most risk assets are outperforming with the exception of hong kong which is down 0. 8 . The kospi gaining. The Third Quarter was a surprising beat there. Nifty futures also higher by a touch. The dollar has been pretty steady. That is helping some of the asia fxes here today. In terms of movers, samsung electronics. We mention that surprise beat there. It seems like the stock is been lower by 0. 5 . Alibaba and tencent
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Beenubject matter has agreed will be restricted to internal or domestic american matters. Now for the first Opening Statement by senator john f. Kennedy. In the election of 1860, Abraham Lincoln said the question was if this nation would exist. Nation would this exist half free. In 19 six the, the question is if this nation will exist half slave, half free. I think it will depend in great measure on what we do here in the United States, on the kind of society that we build, on the kind of strength that we maintain. We discussed tonight domestic issues, but i would not want that to be any implication to be given that this does not involve directly our struggle with mr. Khrushchev for survival. Mr. Khrushchev is done new york, and he maintains a communist offensive throughout the world because of the productive power of the soviet union itself. The chinese communists have always had a large population, but they are important and dangerous now because they are mounting a dangerous effort
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