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Yep, uh I am Michael McK. I am not Tom Keene.

Tom Keene is on vacation today.

Nor am I David Gura.

He is on vacation as well.

How that happened is the subject of a presidential investigation.

And we will let you know probably sometime on Friday

when the two of them have had the complete week off.

Joining me instead, Francine Lacroix,

from our Bloomberg London Bureau

as we bring you Bloomberg surveillance.

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