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It's connecting the dots.

It's giving readers an ability to synthesize

a number of different perspectives

so they can understand how the greater whole works,

because nothing really occurs in isolation anymore.

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It's going to be two years where oil prices are going to be half of where they were before the correction.

And that's a long period of time.

When the Chinese currency moves one, two, three percent against the dollar, the world gets in a tizzy.

When the US markets done well, E.M. has outperformed and in periods where the global markets have had a weaker year Ems have underperformed.

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Bloomberg surveillance Michael McKee and Tom Key, and we welcome you to a five day work week.

No Fed meeting, Fed speakers this week.

McKee will provide a dollop of wisdom, Dudley out with headlights.

Michael, did he say anything this morning?

Nothing different, basically, that we're looking at slow, steady,

break moves with the economy demands. It may be a live or dead meeting for the Fed April 27th.

What we know is we've got a live surveillance for you through this hour.

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