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To the campaign trail for our top story. Five days to go until the president ial election. New National Polls show Hillary Clinton once again pulling ahead of donald trump as both candidates set their sights on swing states in the homestretch. John harwood is live in lima, ohio weather the latest. I want to step back for a minute from this strongly republican county, al lep county where lima is located, to look at the national picture. Donald trump has fallen two points behind in the Washington Post poll. If you look at the nbc news battleground map you can see Hillary Clinton is either solidly or slightly leaning in enough states to get her over the 270 electoral votes she needs to be elected president. Now, donald trump tends to do better when he follows the di ....
Apple or a netflix or a tesla. After another day where the market hung in there, the dow gaining 67 points, nasdaq advancing. 26 , starting to be a pretty good year. I think its shining a light on the stocks that i follow in order to get a better feel for whats going on out there in the real economy, both domestic and international. So you have a sense of where we truly are. Lets start with my mainstays. Lets start with the rails. All aboard im always trying to measure the actual strength of our economy, and im not using all those data that comes from the fed and the government. That doesnt get there for me. One way to do that is by looking at the rails before there are only four publicly traded railroads of any size, and they all carry the same cargo so we can get some valuable nationwide comparisons. They move chemicals, iron, lumber, steel, cars, coal, ag products. Dont forget that they carry trucks too. So they doship merchandise that would normally be viewed as over the road cargo ....
Our road map begins with a trio of deals in biotech, personal care and food. Hp ink and hewlettpackard enterprise began trading as separate companies today. We will speak with meg whitman a bit later on in the show. And visa shares lower after reporting a mixed quarter, a buy back and a purchase of visa europe. A lot for investors to digest. A lot of deals in the spotlight, including Treehouse Foods agreeing to buy conagras private brands business. Results from likes of a facebook, tesla, Media Players like disney, cvs, fox. The nasdaq the biggest gainer. The question now, jim, whether october has had not good but great gains, almost every year this decade. Is it going to rob some of novembers seasonal strength . I dont know. I think earnings season is still on. I listen to what youre saying. Lets mention treehouse. Treehouse is a very good company. Theyre going to be able to ....