Today as republicans look to fast track her nomination before the election day and in the gulf, clean up from hurricane delta continues this morning as nearly half a million residents still remain without power and technology under fire yet again this time from across the atlantic its monday october 20t12, 2020 youre watching Worldwide Exchange here on cnbc. Sh good monday morning kicking off this morning with a hearty congratulations to the Los Angeles Lakers you can see them there jumping around they won their 17th nba title beating the miami heat in game six last night 10693 lebron james helping lift the lakers over the top with a triple double himself while Anthony Davis logged a doubledouble of his own you can see the dow jones implied higher by 16 points and the nasdaq up by 134 Big Technology in focus yet again. And with fridays 160 point advance the dow is now positive for the First Time Since september 22nd you can compare that with the s p 500, the dow transportation stocks a
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