The latest ABC / Washington Post poll shows a dead heat in the 2016 presidential race with just 6 days left until election day.  The tie comes despite a massive plunge in Hillary's "trustworthiness" proving that her supporters are blindly loyal and/or ABC's polling data is simply wrong.  That said, ABC points out that Clinton leads among those who say they’ve already voted by a margin of 54-41%...though we suspect a lot of that 54% would like to have their vote back after the latest FBI revelations.

• U.S. Election Angst Spreads as Stocks Drop, Bonds Rise (BBG)
• Fed Doesn’t Aim to Push Inflation Beyond 2% (WSJ)
• Tighter Race Brings a Shift in Tactics (WSJ)
• After another release of documents, FBI finds itself caught in a partisan fray (WaPo)
• Trump Tells Early Voters to Change Their Ballots If They Have 'Buyer's Remorse' (ABC)
• More Pot, Fewer Guns, Higher Pay: Other Big Issues on the Ballot (BBG)
• Banks No Longer Make the Bulk of U.S. Mortgages (WSJ)
• Kuroda dismisses idea of BOJ buying municipal bonds (Reuters)

Global stocks, S&P futures, the Mexican peso, the Korean Won and crude oil all fell as traders were spooked by polls suggesting a tightening race and Trump momentum ahead of next week’s American presidential election. The yen and Swiss franc gained, as did global bond markets and gold as investors flocked to safe haven assets.

Palestinians are demanding the UK issue a formal apology and take responsibility for its colonial legacy in Palestine. A campaign to hold the UK responsible for the suffering of Palestinians for almost a century is gaining momentum with the launch of a new parliamentary petition. The state of Israel was created after colonial Britain obliged a Jewish lobby demand for the existence of a Jewish state in the Middle East. The British reasoning might have had something to do with culture and religion or the politics of the time between Germans, British, Ottoman Turks and Arabs.

The police killings are back. Two cops in Iowa were fatally shot early Wednesday and the gunman is on the loose following what appeared to be an "ambush-style attack", the local police said.

The Des Moines Police Department said in a news release that the shootings took place early Wednesday. Officers responded to a report of shots fired at about 1:06 a.m. and found an Urbandale Police Department officer who had been shot. According to the police statement, an Urbandale police officer was found shot to death near a high school in suburban Des Moines around 1 a.m. local time.