Investors. First, though, lets check in with sue. Hi, ty. Good to see you. The market today is a bit messy. Some are blaming that on the upset last night for mr. Cantor. The dow right now is down 90 points on the trading session. The nasdaq is holding on to a fractional gain. S p 500 is on a quarter of a period. The transports are on the about 51 points. The russell 2000 is off a third of a percent. Lets bring in alan brown, Senior Adviser as schroeders, which has 4 billion, andrew is on the floor with me as well. Hes a Morgan Stanley solutions. Welcome, gentlemen. Allen, im going to start with you. The cantor upset is the market reacting to that . I dont know about the immediate reaction, but i think it will have consequences in the longer run. Theres actually an interesting parallel with europe. We saw the election where we saw the rightwing parties both in the uk and france in particular score big successes. The net effect is it brings the centrist parties more to the right. Its get
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