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The man suspected of killing five people at a mall in Washington state Friday night was being held without bail Sunday morning in a county jail as investigators continued to search for a motive in the shootings.
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Professor Allan Lichtman says he uses just 13 true/false questions to pick the White house winner 
I saw this in Business Insider over the weekend and thought it was interesting, as it is basically an algorithmic methodology, not a poll. 

After 10 straight weeks of increasingly bullish speculative positioning (‘longer’ stock futures and ‘shorter’ VIX futures), the last 2 weeks have seen short VIX bets plunge (down 35%) at the fastest rate since pre-Brexit and the Aug 2015 crash. At the same time as this surge to hedging, the day since The Fed’s utterly farcical fold have seen bond volatility crash to its lowest in two years.

The last two weeks have seen a major derisking of speculative VIX short positioning… (35% collapse in net VIX shorts)

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President of the European Central Bank Mario Draghi appears before a committee of the German Parliament this week
– On Wednesday
– In front of German finance and budget committees committee
Bild (German newspaper) reports that Finance Minister Schaeuble has urged members of the committee to ask Draghi tough questions on monetary policy at the testimony

Authored by Dilbert Creator Scott Adams via Dilbert.com,

As most of you know, I had been endorsing Hillary Clinton for president, for my personal safety, because I live in California. It isn’t safe to be a Trump supporter where I live. And it’s bad for business too. But recently I switched my endorsement to Trump, and I owe you an explanation. So here it goes…

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NZ trade balance data for August from Statistics New Zealand
-1265 m ….. MISS
– expected -735m, prior -433m
Exports 3.39bn
– expected 3.6bn, prior 3.96bn
Imports 4.65bn

The Security Council held an emergency meeting on Sunday on what diplomats called an unprecedented acceleration of fighting in Aleppo in terms of numbers, scale and scope.
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