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The way to characterize the market in general is soft at the top and firmer in the middle and lower segments of the market and that has been the

developing phenomenon over the last year. Right now there does seem to be this feeling

in the market that's a speculative are potentially testing that the Bank of Japan, the Ministry of Finance Resolved.

When you have oil continuing to trend higher and you have the Fed taking an extremely dovish

stance that's good for equities.

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I'm Michael McKee along with Tom Keene.

It is 7 a.m. on Street T g i f maybe that's why

markets are higher today oil is up the latest production freeze speculation and

that's pushing up equities around the world.

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