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Concerns are easing. Will have more on that. And at the global independence conference. The conversation with the president of the philadelphia nittygritty on foreign forward guidance. The versus the purchases have to stop before you see rate hikes. The global unintended consequences of qe that we have gone through and guidance and forward guidance. That is an issue and he talked about being humble about knowing how to get guidance and what goes forward. That is the conversation i had. Leading with some of the headlines, officials must be a ware of what is going on and the unintended consequences. We will have more later. Thank you so much. He warned that Monetary Policy should not be month incoming data. Exchange and we will talk about that one. We are going to European Equity markets. It is lower in europe through the morning and weeks fact a softer open in europe. Down and the dax is down. Out andtrade data is exports are looking for 7. 5 growth. It comes in at 18. 5 . The number is
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