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The S&P 500 heading for a fourth straight week of gains, but a little bit of weakness emerging

in a past few days sparked, some would say say by jitters around tax cuts and whether the

GOP has the votes to get this done next week. As far as futures are concerned this

Friday morning a little bit firmer at five points on the S&P 500 positive 62 points on the Dow in the

bottom market it's as you were incredibly tight trading ranges through the year

and over the last month as well somewhere in the 2 30s we're up

another basis point at 2 36 on a US 10 year at a front end of a curve on a US 2

year we are trading at 1.82% confidence that growth will improve and inflation will stay low, shared by most

investors and central bankers are like going into 2018, and in the FX market it's

just a story of dollar weakness through the year and on the session as well with one exception

some dollar strength against the pound even as European leaders vote to go to phase

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