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……The Ubiquitous debate. Register to vote before the government shuts down. Iran won’t freeze. WTO slashes global growth forecast. Growth cools for existing home sales. Consumer confidence is high (taken before the debate). Amex forbids merchants to recommend lower price alternatives. Clean Power Plan goes to court. Elon Musk is my favorite Martian. Financial Review by Sinclair Noe for 09-27-2016 DOW + 133 = 18,228 SPX + 13 = 2159 NAS + 48 = 5305 10 Y – .03 = 1.56% OIL – 1.00 = 44.93 GOLD – 10.90 = 1328.00   A CNN poll showed that 62 percent of voters who watched last night’s presidential candidate’s debate felt that Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton, won. In markets, the Mexican peso seems to agree, with the currency rallying as much as 2 percent after the head-to-head concluded, any other correlations to the markets are hypothetical.   Last night’s debate was all over the place. That’s not a commentary on the candidates, rather on the broadcast itself. Unlike the primaries, the networks do not take turns running the general election debates. Instead, the non-partisan, non-profit Commission on Presidential Debates runs the show and hands out sets of keys to whoever wants them. That means in addition to every major network, other platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Yahoo were able to broadcast their own streams. The early estimates are that 81 million people watched the debate on one of the 12 TV networks and about 2.5 million watched live streaming. Although about 90% of the people probably tuned ...
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Financial ReviewBy Sinclair Noe