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This is Bloomberg surveillance. We still need much higher oil prices for share production in the U.S.

to stop declining and begin to increase.

I'm worried that there's a deceleration going on in part because of business caution

in the face of uncertainty.

We still have the Fed continuing a rate hike cycle into 2017 because the nominal numbers start looking

so much better because the inflation figures are moving higher.

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Good morning everyone.

Bloomberg Savannah, who welcome all of you a Fed Day 1 PM this afternoon.

We'll dive into it with Ellen Zettner, Richard Clerda,

Alan Blinder, among others,

joining us with their important perspective.

I'm told it's a dead meeting.

I'm kidding.

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