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We kick things off though with Brian Belzky, the chief investment strategy is at

BMO Capital Markets and Brian let's start with the news

how is the market interpreting what we've seen here I guess it's just another layer

of uncertainty out of Washington you know it is the hits just keep coming here on the radio by the way

So glad to be on have you. Yeah, thank you

You know

We are set into this reactive

type of mood where we're only looking at short-term things. I mean we would continue to tell investors three words, be an investor.

You can only control what you can control. And I think what you can

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