continues trading close to three months highs but tonight's market monitor still is finding good bargins. he's gary motyl, chief investment officer at templeton global equity. gary, welcome back to nightly business report." welcome back to nbr. >> thank you, tom. >> tom: finding bargains despite a 10% rise in s&p 500 since its october lows, have we come too far, too fast? >> i think the markets have made a reasonable recovery. and the news out this week was very supportive. the news. of course, came not only from the u.s. gross domestic product in the third quarter up 2.5%, but perhaps you're referring to the news out of europe, finally having to deal with the greek debt situation. is it big enough s it enough. >> we think this is a very strong step but a strong step and a long path. i think when you look at what's happening in europe, you are now able to provide liquidity. this should stabilize the markets. it should be supportive of the banks and the italian debt markets in particular. >> tom: does it change your investment strategy when it comes to european stocks? >> not really, beca

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on this in a moment but to me it looks like a significant opportunity for grain users to snap up bargins at the expension of nervous commodity traders. >> facing the pressure of a cost cutting congress a variety of ideas on how to best write the next farm bill are rolling in. the american soybean association release its proposal this week. asa called it is risk management for america's farmers program or rmaf. the asa president who farms in indiana said it is commodity specific with revenue and yield bench mark for individual farmers. those marks are based on historical yields and prices and not on yields found at county, district or state levels. asa said it would cost significantly less than existing acre, share and direct payment programs. >>> the national corn grower association revealed its plans two weeks ago. it would change and replace the existing acre program. it also replaces the existing direct payment programs. last week i was in illinois at a farm where harvest is in high gear. effective this weekend they are a new president of ncga. we discussed his new role and the import