The debate was hosted by the Atlanta Press club and georgia public broadcasting. Good evening and welcome. I am russ spencer. And you are watching the Atlanta Press club debate series. We are broadcasting from the studio of the georgia public broadcasting in atlanta, and we welcome viewers from across the state and the country. This is the runoff debate for u. S. Senate to fill the seat held by georgia senator Kelly Loeffler. Lets meet the candidates. In alphabetical order, republican candidate Kelly Loeffler, appointed to the senate in january 2020 to replace retiring georgia senator johnny isakson. She is part owner of the atlanta dream. Candidate Raphael Warnock is the Senior Pastor at Ebenezer Baptist church in atlanta. The church where Martin Luther king jr. Was pastor. Lets meet our panel. Greg bluestein is a political reporter with the atlanta journalconstitution. Rayam the debate will be divided into three rounds and candidates will have 60 seconds to answer question and 30 sec
Im sandra smith. Hi, trace. Trace good morning, everyone. Im trace gallagher. Loeffler hammered home her opponent is a radical liberal. Warnock side stepped questions about Defunding Police and court packing. Democrat jon ossoff appeared alone on the debate stage after senator david perdue opted not to take part. Sandra President Trump rallied for loeffler and perdue over the weekend urging his supporters to turn out in droves. President trump if you dont vote, the socialists and communists win. They win. Georgia patriots must show up and vote for these two incredible people. Sandra fox team coverage. Brandnew analysis from byron york. We begin with Jonathan Serrie live in decat you are, georgia, this morning. Last nights event drew a national audience. How did it influence the debates . Good morning. Good morning, sandra. Both candidates were keenly aware that much of their attention and much of their financial backing is coming from out of state and so this debate focused largely on
Green shoots rhetoric. What makes it interesting going into november, the financials had already been up 30 out of the march low, plus the yield curve has, in. The yield curve has come in. It is puzzling why the banks are up so much. It has to do with the narrative of the traders and investors buying cyclical stocks on the potential for strong recovery. Guy i will cheat david i will cheat. You and i talk when we are not on television. What is going on with the yen . Abigail those are some of my favorite conversations because we can move back and forth. The yen does bring attention to itself over last year. It is up about 4 . When you have stocks at alltime highs, you have bonds at record highs, although folks will say the fed the yen is a pure play haven. Over the last year, up about 4 . Some traders might like the fact that stocks are higher, but theyre probably hedging for the possibility there could be choppiness ahead. That is true for the vix. The vix is still above 20. That is in
The short term we have concerns about what happens with the virus. New york shutting down when it comes to the schools. Nevertheless, how can you sustain the entering opening of restaurants and bars on the back of concerns when schools have to close . The dilemma is front and center for the people operating government right now, and investors. Can they look through it . Joe exactly right. Still nothing to help out from d. C. , no stimulus seeming to be imminent. And the economy is not rolling over yet, but i think it is surprising less to the upside. Several times the data kept coming in soundly solidly better than exultations. The big green area were all those data points that kept surprising to the upside. That is rolling over. What that means is not that the economy is sputtering, per se, but people are catching up to reality. Of course we had retail sales yesterday well below estimates. It is dawning on people, i guess everyone is getting more realistic, starting to mangy maybe vir
Secretary of state well get insight into who these people are, more importantly, what they mean for you, and the country. And of course, theres more than one way to takeaway your guns. Just make them too expensive to own and to use. The biden gun tax well get reaction from liz peek on that and so much more on making money. Well so the markets open higher and a could am but nation of factors right theres of course more good news on a vaccine front from astrazeneca they received emergency approval and then the start of trading the u. S. Services pmi came in well ahead of consensus and really encouraging highlights the steepest expansion output since march of 2015 the fastest new increase in order since september of 2018 the strongest job growth since Data Collected in the series going back to october of 2009 and the strongest Business Optimism since may of 2014 and take a lack at this chart, ladies and gentlemen. It is called a super v and its all good stuff and then we might add the upt