The following video is from Friday's Investor Beat, in which host Chris Hill, and Motley Fool analysts Ron Gross and Charly Travers dissect the hardest-hitting investing stories of the day.
The U.S. Federal Government remains partly shut down, and the deadline over whether Congress will raise the debt ceiling, or let America default on its debt, is rapidly approaching. Yet, the markets seem to be shrugging this off. In today's lead story on Investor Beat, Ron and Charly discuss why there seems to be so much confidence that a deal will be struck in time, and whether or not this belief is misguided.
