Notes today: 

• Justice Thomas agrees to halt Graham testimony in Georgia election probe..confidence in  SCOTUS heading BELOW recent 25%..

• Two-Cent Venezuela Bonds Lure Traders Hunting Lottery-Like Score

It’s one of the most outlandish bets in global creditmarkets: Buying up defaulted bonds sold by a country under sanctions that leave US investors locked out of the market. 

• LLY at all time high..

• Reuters: Uganda has reported nine more Ebola cases in the capital Kampala, bringing the total number of known infections to 14 in the last two days. The outbreak began in September in a rural part of central Uganda. It spread earlier this month to Kampala, a city of more than 1.6 million people.