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Welcome to Motley Fool Money. Thanks for being here.

I'm your host, Chris Hill, joining me in studio this week for Motley Fool Supernova,

Matt Argusinger, and for Million Dollar Portfolio, Charlie Travers, and Ron Gross.

Good to see you as always, gentlemen. Thank you.

We've got a surprising deal in the retail industry and some unsurprising earnings results for one major brand.

We will talk mutual fund investing with market watch columnists Chuck Jaffy,

and as always, we've got a few stock ideas you can put on your watch list.

But let's start with the big macro. And just like last week, guys,

we begin across the Potomac River. The government shutdown continues.

But we are seeing possibly, Charlie, some signs of progress on the debt ceiling on Thursday.

The Dow was up more than 2% after House Republicans proposed a short-term extension to raise the debt ceiling for a few weeks.

Where are we now?

Seems like a little bit of a premature celebration on the market's part.

I think so.

I should make it clear we are taping this on Friday and anything can happen over the weekend.

But I would really hope by the time we get to say Monday morning,

there is a hard deal on the table that is signed and delivered and we can go forward from there.

I think the markets given these guys a pass so far.

But if we start to trickle into next week in that October 17th deadline, all bets are off.

I would expect volatility there.

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