We are monitoring his comments right now for any news that breaks. We are on this event for you. Meanwhile, got to look at the markets. Kicking off the first trading day of september with new records for the s p 500 and the nasdaq, and the dow is back in positive territory for the year. We shall see if these numbers hold through the rest of the hour. You know, septembers traditionally the worst month of the year for the stock market. But we are going to ask our floor show traders if they expect september 2020 to follow the usual pattern, because nothing about 2020 has been usual, to be clear. And we will get a view from the farm as harvest season is fast approaching. We will talk to one soybean and corn farmer about how he sees the phase one trade deal playing out in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. Plus, the state of spacs. A giant in the Media Industry is turning to the world of 3d printing to tell us why he is now taking desktop metal public. Less than an hour to the closing
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