There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.

That's why we launched The Big Take. It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart

Radio that turns down the volume a bit to give you some space to think.

I'm Wes Kossova.

Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen. Hello and welcome to another episode Elaway is still out but you can think of this week as sort of a part two to last

week's episode so last week we talked about the biggest stories for traders

in markets in 2018 and this week we start the

new year looking ahead to try to figure out what the biggest stories in markets will

be for 2019 and so we've brought back the same guests this time they're going to

look ahead with me now in the studio we have Bloomberg Cross Assets reporter Luke Kowah

and Bloomberg's macro strategist Cameron Christ.

So Luke and Cameron, thank you very much for joining us.

Looking forward to hearing your crystal balls for the year ahead.

Cameron, I'll start with you.

So going into the new year, what are like the big, I guess say events or things you'll be thinking about that you'll want to see develop.

Well it strikes me that there's a few important issues here.

One is what happens with the Federal Reserve.

Right now markets are pricing, basically a 50-50 shot whether they hike at all in 2019.

And just to be clear for those listening at home, we are recording this, December 18th, uh, uh, the,

right before they're gonna, they're gonna, come on, they're gonna.

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