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Good morning, A30 on Wall Street. I'm Michael McKeet, along with Tom Keene. Economic indicators are brought to you by

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talk with a broker dealer RIA that's ready to listen. Call 8664626263638 or

visit Commonwealth.com to learn more. No 830 indicators today. We do have a report on existing home

sales due out at 10 a.m. this morning forecast to rise 3.9 percent. Of course we

were forecast to see an increase in housing starts yesterday.

That did not happen.

So we'll see what happens with the existing home sales.

But since we haven't got any bad news, it's a perfect time to talk to Chris

Ruppkin because he's been optimistic so we don't have any counterfactual for

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