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The lows have been seen in the commodity markets generally,

whether it's in the soft, whether it's in the grains, whether it's in crude oil.

Has the Fed laid out a new rationale for running monetary policy

other than looking at the labor market and looking at the inflation numbers?

We think that people have leapfrogged what is reasonable into excessive worry.

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investment on Bloomberg Radio.

Good morning, I'm Michael McKee along with... Investment on stocks closed Friday up for the year finally.

And indications are will at least start the day higher in the US.

Something we haven't had for a while.

A merger Monday among the deals announced so far,

Data Company IHS buying

market Sherwin Williams buying Valspar and W. L Ross buying

chemical and plastics distributor Nexio Solutions.

There's also talk Monsanto is exploring deals with BASF and Bayer.

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