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cloud Bloomberg dot com and of course on the Bloomberg Bloomberg. and he keeps track of basically everything that's going on because as we've

often mentioned on this show currencies are the weather vein for all things

economic and political and right now the focus is on the pound.

It is the currency driving the markets today it appears to the extent they want to be driven

because now we have a tiny tiny bit of

certainty about what's going to happen in the sense that we now have a date for

Article 50, a rough date for Article 50 in the beginning of the process.

So where does the pound go from here?

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