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Bloomberg.com and of course on the Bloomberg. and let's start there with our first guest Alan Ruskin

global co-head of FX research at Deutsche Bank kind enough to join us here in our

Bloomberg 1130 studios in New York. Alan great to see it. We were

listening yesterday the Prime Minister Theresa May, speaking

about this process, how it's stuck to the timetable that she set out initially here.

What happens next here? We have the Royal Assent and then what this moves pretty quickly from here on out?

Unfortunately, it probably doesn't move terribly quickly. Right, so I think Theresa May might have her timetable but on the other side you've obviously got a variety of

different events in Europe you've got elections and you've got a difficult group of

people to negotiate with on the other side, not least because they don't want

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