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No numbers until 10 o'clock this morning we get existing home sales.

They're forecast to be up 1.3% to a 5.4 million annual rate.

We shall see interesting question about how home sales and other interest rate sensitive purchases

will be affected if the Fed does indeed raise rates in June.

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