Welcome you to this third and final campaign 2000 debate between the democratic candidate of president , and Vice President al gore, and the republican candidate governor george w. Bush of texas, and lets welcome the candidates now. Hello. Hello, jim. Good to see you. Governor. Good to see you both. Nice to see you again. How are you all . Before proceeding tonight, we would like to observe a moment of silence in memory of governor mel carnahan of missouri along with his son and former chief of staff died in a private plane crash last night near st. Louis. A reminder, as we continue now, that these debates are sponsored by the commission on president ial debates. The formats and the rules were worked out by the commission and the two campaigns. Tonights questions will be asked by st. Louis area voters who were identified as being uncommitted by the gallup organization. Earlier today, each of them wrote a question on a small card like this. Those cards were collected and then given to m
Republican nominee, president george bush. The independent, ross perot. And governor bill clinton, the democratic nominee. My name is Carol Simpson and i will be the moderator for tonights 90minute debate which is coming to you from the campus of the university of richmond in richmond, virginia. Now tonights program is unlike any other president ial debate in history. Were making history now and its pretty exciting. An independent polling firm has selected an audience of 209 uncommitted voters from this area. The candidates will be asked questions by these voters on a topic of their choosing, anything they want to ask about. My job as moderator is to, you know, take care of the questioning, ask questions myself if i think there needs to be continuity and balance and sometimes i might ask the president to respond to what another candidate may have said. The format has been agreed to by representatives of both the republican and democratic campaigns. And there is no subject matter that i
Regionally, as we saw a setback moments ago from Johnson Johnson. They are pausing the study here on their vaccine after one of their patients fell ill. We did of course look at, when it comes to the china 10 year, we are expecting a big dollar bond sale as well, and details as soon as wednesday. Still Holding Around the 670 level at the moment. Lets look at the rest of the market as we count down to those numbers out of china. Ratentioned in indonesia decision later today, jakarta coming online just slightly higher. Because ofpressure vaccine setbacks, and india as well, we could see a lower open in mumbai. A big power outage yesterday impacted volumes. We also saw inflation surge in september. We are watching fx as well, the dollar pretty steady and the rest of asia affects fx lower after we saw weakness in the chinese currency as well, the pboc made it cheaper to short the renminbi. We are watching the china and aussie tensions ramp up again. We see brent crude and new york crude, p
Going to me on the phone is chuck grom, Gordon Haskett retail analyst. Joining me in new york is Lauren Goodwin, new york life multiasset per folio strategist, and Brooke Sutherland of bloomberg opinion. Give us a rundown of where walmart fell short. Brooke it was not great all the way around. The fourthquarter came in weaker than expected, and they called out unexpected softness in the weeks leading up to christmas, which is not what you want to hear from a major retailer. That is in line with what weve heard from a number of Different Companies that are not named amazon, which raises a lot of interesting questions about what the Competitive Landscape actually looks like. Also weighing on investors is the 2021 fiscal outlook, which was also weaker than expected on sales and profits. Alix the stock rating is heavy here in premarket. The bad news baked in. Is that is why is that why you have a buy rating here . Chuck weve had a buy rating for a while, not just here on the fourthquarter.
Skull. Most of us see the sunshine along the coast and partly sunny. We talk about the world putting to the rest of the week, into the weekend, coming up. The roadways look really good on this thursday morning, and if you need to get the extra cup of coffee, give yourself the opportunity. Travel times are in the green and it is rare this happens but 27 minutes headed out of the Altamont Pass. Up to 30 minutes. 50 minutes driving on the eastshore freeway to get the eastshore freeway highway for. Less than half an hour. Is still an easy 35 minute ride out of the south bay on oneto one towards the airport. Take a look at the overall map. There are really only a couple of places where you see photos coming out of the Altamont Pass. The drivetime in the green the accident do not seem to be causing anything as far as a major slowdown. You are in the green at the nimitz freeway as well as driving across the peninsula. As you can see from the map, once you are through the toll plaza, you are g