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It's connecting the dots.

It's giving readers an ability to synthesize

a number of different perspectives

so they can understand how the greater whole works,

because nothing really occurs in isolation anymore.

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U.S. Stock Index futures are higher this morning,

with equities on course for their longest streak of weekly gains

since November.

We check the markets every 15 minutes throughout the

trading day on Bloomberg. S&P E-Many Futures up 4.5 points,

Dow E-Mani Futures up 38 and a half. The Daxen-Germities down a quarter percent. Ten-year Treasury up 8.5 the tax in Germany is down a quarter percent.

Ten year Treasury up 1.32nd, the yield 1.89 percent.

The yield on the 2 year, 0.84 percent.

9x crude oil up 1.7 percent or 67 cents to $40.87 a barrel. Comax

gold down 1% or $12.80 to 12.50.30 an ounce.

The euro, a dollar 1277 seven the end one eleven point four

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