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Welcome to the Bloomberg Surveillance Podcast. I'm Tom Keene with David Gura.

Daily we bring you insight from the best of economics. Finance investment and international relations

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We begin with Peter Hooper today.

He's chief economist at Deutsche Bank joins Tom in our Bloomberg 1130 studios in New York.

Peter, great to speak with you as always.

And let's start with the data on offer today,

particularly when it comes to industrial production.

How important is this Reed going to be?

Yes to you, but also to the Federal Reserve policymakers.

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