President trump in florida, i noticed about an hour ago. He will leave in the early evening. I believe Vice President biden scheduled for ohio. What is so odd is the relative invisibility of the leader in the race, Vice President biden. This was a trump weekend they trump discourse. Jonathan the president has been in the spotlight for all of the wrong reasons the last couple of weeks. I think the former Vice President wants to leave him there. Not just orlando later this evening. I believe pennsylvania tomorrow, iowa wednesday, and thursday in north carolina. The numbers at a national level, and it some of these states, particularly iowa, where he crushed Hillary Clinton four years ago, much tighter this time around. Tom the polls are really showing the challenges there. What is important for me, for our international audience, it is surprising how the voting rules and the voting process devolves to the state level and even to the city and county level. Very different from the united k
End, for clues about the feds move. Yie oil is relatively flat. Apple shares higher in the premarket after the company says new i phone preorders are on pace to beat last years record. The final countdown to the fed and mixed data out of china investors bracing for another week of opportunity. And alibaba firing back after barrons says the stock could fall another 50 from here. Apple is one of the stories of the morning. They come out with not hard numbers, but a characterization of how Opening Weekend went. Very strong, in their words, globally and on pace to outdo last years preOpening Weekend. These are preorders, not in stores yet. Not yet. A lot of Industry Data we have is based on inventory. I cant remember what happened last time when you had the 6 and the 6s launched if those were i ventory challenged or not. Apple said, listen, we know some customers have noticed how long the preorder window is its three to four weeks at this point in some countries. Were trying hard to match