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Have voted so far. 100 million voted already. More are going to vote today. Pres. Trump a vote for biden is a vote to eradicate your auto industrys. Mr. Biden my message is simple. The power to change the country is in your hands. Tomorrow we can put an end to the present who has fanned the flames of hate all across this country. Pres. Trump i am running against a very sleepy guy. He happens to be a corrupt politician. Mr. Biden it is time for donald trump to pack his bags and go home. Pres. Trump this election comes down to a very simple choice. Do you want to be ruled by the corrupt political maniacs that you are dealing with, or do you want to be ruled by the American People . Alix going us now is bloombergs aquatics bloombergs nick waddings. What are the numbers . Reporter the big time we will know things at about 9 00 a. M. At about 9 00 p. M. Eastern time in the u. S. At that time, we will have a pretty good idea of where florida is. Once we know where florida is, is goingnow joe
North carolina, and ohio whether we will get a clear result tonight remains to be seen the tenyear note level higher than since early june. Banks among the best performing stocks in the dow and the s p. Oil prices are gaining ground but the Energy Sector is the only in the red. Overall a broad based strong day on wall street. Following gains yesterday as well lets get straight to the big stories we are watching. Mike santoli is here watching the market rally. And ylan moi is following the all important balance of power in the senate for us mike santoli, welcome. Good twoday run in the markets. It is inhabiting the ground we were in the last half of last week and gone right to the middle 3,400 is the middle of the long threemonth range. If you think about it it has taken two days to lift the indexes back onto a balanced footing. We were pretty oversold last week challenged and tested the september lows bounced off of that today. Make sure folks are not leaning too much in one direction
. O a presumed debate october 15 crisis, go to cash. Do you understand we are 3 from a dow record high . Jonathan the narrative has really shifted away from the worries about a contested election, and now the conversation about the potential of a blue wave. No question about it. We like to see more polls coming out. The candidates really migrate to arizona today and tomorrow to come off the messaging from utah. Have you seen the polls for going to be at polls from quinnipiac . A fivepoint lead in iowa for biden. The average right now, 9. 4 points to biden. I feel you, tom. I get it. Everyone else does, too. They are conditioned by the experience of four years ago. That is a conversation with kevin later this morning. Tom again, i look at the markets. The doom and gloom out there, the vix, the volatility at 28, im sorry. Look at the equity recovery and look at corporations adjusting. This breaking ibm news is important. Jonathan after a big acquisition last year of red hat, the restruct
Tom good morning, everyone. An exceptionally busy day here at bloomberg surveillance. Lots to talk about on the news front. Stimulus in washington or nonstimulus, the breaking news on china, and markets as well. The dollar moments ago breaks down to new week this of dxy new weakness of dxy. An ever weaker dollar index. That will be one of our themes across the hour. Our Kevin Cirilli reports a deeply divided reports on deeply divided republicans, and there are fire trucks in houston. Jonathan they are united on one thing in washington, and it is china. The consulate in houston shutting down after the u. S. Demand. We have looking up 70 times to that headline woken up so many times to that headline, so we have woken up so many times to that headline, u. S. China tensions. Gold, 1863 note an ounce. On a weekly basis, gold has had a record high. Go to the dynamics you have seen in highyield and ig. Lisa if you take a look at highyield bond spreads today, you can see to have shrunk dramati