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We're seeing slow but steady growth in the European economy.

It's just simply moving forward at a very

sluggish pace. The good trends that are happening in the job market are starting to

spread and I see that in our surveys of our smaller businesses. People vote via the

stock market even though this political environment really doesn't

have much to do with medium and long-term earnings growth prospects.

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Good morning this is Bloomberg Surveillance it's 8 o'clock on Wall Street I'm

Michael McKee David Gura sitting in with me today as Tom Keene continues on his vacation.

I'm not sure if we're going to get our vacation days back, David, from Tom.

Borrowed a few of them to go off and sit on the beach.

We are watching right at the moment Exxon earnings come in.

The details just breaking.

Here's a bit of a surprise, ExxonMobil, first quarter earnings a share, and I'm not ready yet to say these

are final.

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