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Welcome once again, Views Room listeners.

We'd like to take this opportunity as we get towards the end of the year to thank you for

listening both to this week's episode and for all of 2016.

Now this week we'd like to do something a little bit different.

Rather than telling you what we think of what has been happening, we're going to give you our ideas of what may well happen next year. It's what we call our predictions. I know it's a name you never would have thought up yourself. Really, really not obvious whatsoever. And in the studio with me today, I've got Kevin Allison, who's a Chicago colonist, and also the guy we put in charge of running

predictions from the U.S. for us, along with a couple of colleagues around the world.

Kevin, just give us a quick introduction to the process we've gone through and what we're

looking to get out of these predictions.

Right. Well, every year, our columnists around the world, from Hong Kong to London, to

New York, to Chicago York to Chicago to Washington.

We get together and try to push things a little bit forward and say what are the really

big themes and issues and specific issues around companies and markets that we think are going

to be relevant to investors next year.

So we go through a good process of a month or two of back and forth, chatting.

We had a wonderful session with you a month or so ago where we went through various ideas. We're looking at what, sort of 30, 40 pieces in a book and then another 20 or 30 that will publish as well in addition to the book? That's right. And these are meant to be, well, we'd love for them to be correct. We'd love to correctly predict things, and we have done in the past.

So back in 2013, we wrote... be well we'd love for them to be correct we'd love to correctly predict things and

we have done in the past so back in in 2013 we wrote a prediction that the oil

market looked like it was at risk of a sudden collapse and then in 2014 it did

was yours wasn't it was indeed but more important than being correct I think

is that the views we try to make them like we always breaking views, we try to make them provocative and interesting.

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