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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, I'm Michael McKee.

It's 7 a.m. in New York and in Washington,

where the Fed begins a two-day policy meeting this morning.

The decision, 2 p.m. tomorrow nothing is

forecast to happen actually but we are still trading on it and the Bank of

Japan meeting on Thursday we're looking at European shares higher today,

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