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Our Investment Committee here today. Pete, give me an idea of how the market has moved lately. 23 of the s p 500 at or within three percent of new 52week highs. Seven of 11 s p sectors within three percent of their high. We have made moves as we continue to kick around the question of whether we will have the breakout. And the negativity was pretty high. Going back to the time when we heard from the banks and then the technologies and semis, when you look at 70 that has reported, that says something about how negative everybody was and the surprise that this is. We were trading in ranges probably 17 to 19, somewhere in that range. Ever since the earnings have gotten better and people are getting more comfortable the deeper we get into this thing, look at where the volatility is. Its an amazing move that weve seen there. And we continue to see extremely. We talk about the at the end of the show, massive buying yesterday of al ....
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Everyone. This is bloomberg surveillance and im Francine Lacqua in london. We will be speaking to jack straw, one of the three people serving in the candidate from 1997 to 2010. We talk brexit and trade. Youre meantime, this is market. Equities seem to be on a tear. Stocks in europe are a little bit mixed, but the euro holding onto gains. We saw catalonias president stepping down from the immediate declaration of independence in spain. The dollar, drifting down a little bit. Oil rising above 51 a barrel, as opec pretty good. The nikkei 225 rising to the highest in almost 21 years, following the Dow Jones Industrial average, that touched a fresh record high yesterday. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Plans to donald trump make changes to his tax plan within the next few weeks without giving any details. At the same time, he dismissed concerns that his ....