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Good morning. The dollar at highs, Evergrande’s billionaire chairman under police control in China, the US government-shutdown saga. Here’s what people are talking about.
A gauge of the US dollar hit its highest level in nine months as investors ponder the potential of a protracted period of higher rates. If the MSCI All Country World Index, one of the broadest measures of global stocks, ends the day lower, it’ll be a nine-day streak — the longest in more than a decade. Oil pushed higher as a tightening market outweighed the greenback’s gains.