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U.S. stocks finished lower on the first trading day of the year after opening the session higher.

Investors started 2025 dealing with the cross currents of solid labor market data,

a rising dollar, and tumbling Tesla shares.

We're going to be talking, we'll be talking to President Putin, and we'll be talking to

the representatives, Zelensky and representatives from Ukraine.

We've got to stop it. It's carnage.

The year 2025 is upon us, and it's going to be an interesting year.

Donald Trump will soon become president of the United States.

Wars are raging in Ukraine in the Middle East,

and there's a question mark as to whether or not inflation has actually been tamed.

At breaking views, our columnists spend the latter half of the year thinking up predictions

for the months ahead. We've tapped our sources to conjure up forecasts for the bond market,

obesity treatments, private equity exits, artificial intelligence, and more.

These predictions are the focus of this week's Views Room.

Welcome back to the Views Room, the weekly podcast that invites you, the listener,

into a lively discussion about the top stories of the week.

I'm your host, Jonathan Guilford.

And I'm Amy Donnell. So Amy, obviously, you know, the old sore about predictions are hard, especially when

they're about the future. But right now, it seems like an unusually difficult time to forecast

even a little way ahead, right? Just given the volatility that we've seen in markets,

given the, let's say, unusual political

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