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Minneapolis, two hours east of grand forks, north dakota, and if youre so inclined to triangulate to the northernmost to, say, canada, its about four and a half hours south of winnipeg. [laughter] minnesota is the 18th state the president has visited since just the first of august, and china joe biden . Well, hes, well, hes, hes lagging a bit. There he is, about a 3 to 1 margin. Biden has ventured out of his basement to minneapolis himself today. President trumps visit to minnesota comes as husband poll numbers his poll numbers are hitting a record high for the year. President trumps Approval Rating reaching 53 , 4 points higher, if youre wondering, than barack obama at the very same point in his president ial reelection campaign. If youre wondering about that as well being somewhat short of President Trumps Approval Rati ....
We are looking ahead to the fed minutes out on wednesday. Lets change the board and look at the currencies and we will check in on some of the commodities. The u. S. Dollar index currently flat. You have the euro gaining just four basis points. A stronger euro over eight straight weeks. That is beneficial for emergingmarket currencies. The yen, 76. Rsus some gains for the aussie versus the safe haven yen. Gold had its first weekly drop since early june. Gold firmly in focus. Down 3 10 of 1 . 42 for wti. Over in the u. S. , 17 basis points on the 10 year. Lets get to the first word news. Good morning south korea is warning of a new mass Coronavirus Infection after reporting its highest number of cases since early march. The latest infections are being linked to a church in seoul. Tokyo confirmed new cases. Young adults in their 20s the largest group, almost 18,000 people are infected in the capital. New data show the japanes ....
We are live on capitol hill waiting for a house markup to get underway. The Appropriations Committee is working on 2021 spending for state Department Foreign operations, agriculture and military construction. This is live coverage on cspan2. Please be seated. We are ready to begin. My friends, ladies and gentlemen, please be seated. I call the meeting of the Appropriations Committee to order. I would first like to welcome all members to the first full Committee Markup of fiscal year 2021. This will be a markup season unlike any other. Not only are we going to complete our work in record time, but we will be joined by a handful of our colleagues who were unable to be here due to the pandemic. Before we begin i have a number of housekeeping a ....