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Hard to digest the news. Well cut right at it, give you the details in a moment. Overall, the market lacks real direction. The dows going to be up maybe 15, s p up 10. Nice gain for the nasdaq though, all green at this point. Politics [laughter] can you say softballs . One after another, they were lobbed towards joe biden at the cnn town hall last night. Not very good preparation for the first president ial debate which is, by the way, 11 days away. The standout for me came when biden suggested that if the president had acted sooner on the virus, all those people would not have died. So the pr...

At this. Look at the market this morning. We are going to be down today, of course that follows an enormous 20 rally in the last three days. Perhaps investors are upset with the delay in the stimulus vote. Perhaps theres some profit taking after the explosive rally. The dow will open this morning with a loss of around 700 points. The s p, down about 200. The nasdaq off about 82. A decline at the opening bell. President trump, he wants to get the economy back up and running again as soon as possible. He has a plan to divide counties by risk, high, medium and low, depending on medical conditions...

Prone to gaffes. In congress, no agreement on how to respond to the virus. The latest proposals, a payroll tax holiday for the rest of the year. In other words, your Social Security contribution, suspended. Another one, extend the april 15th tax deadline. However, congress had better get on with it. A oneweek recess starts friday. The market, not happy with any of this. Stocks will be down at the opening bell. You kind of get seasick watching it all. Down 2,000 monday, up 1100 tuesday, this morning we will open about 800 points to the downside. Similar losses for the s p and nasdaq. The virus,...

China is the manufacturing workshop of the world and its shrinking, manufacturing, shr k shrinking at its fastest pace ever. This is an astonishing move into the safety of tenyear u. S. Treasuries. At one stage that yield had dropped all the way down to an alltime low of 1. 03 . Right now, we are at 1. 08 . Historically very, very low. The virus is the problem. We do not know how much our economy will slow if large numbers of people are quarantined and people are unwilling to go out and shop and travel and mingle. We have these developments on the virus. Deaths, two deaths in what appears to b...